Danielle Steel & Blog generators

I decided to go back and look at some of the blog generators. I can't
see where I would use these generators, unless I give up eating, sleeping,
seeing my family and daily living skills. Who has the time? But... one can always, always use a good laugh.

For libraryland, I thought the following was appropriate:

http://ds.hnldesign.nl/

Lib 2.0

I am having a blast reading about libraries and Lib. 2.0.

With the recent bandwidth issues and blocking of MySpace, it is
rare to see a teenager in our library or on our computers. If this
isn't a wake-up call, I don't know what is.

There are so many applications and implications for us.
Off the top of my head:
For our avid readers and book club afficionados - set up a blog and have our community contribute the content. Link it directly to our catalog, set up tags so that material can be found in an addtional way besides the subject headings. Let's
start to engage the users who utilize these technologies the way people used the telephone 50 years ago.

Have what we do on RSS feeds. Let's push the content out there to those who
want it. Calendar of events - RSS. Had a program? Let's get feedback online from our community. Keep the dialog going.

rolly-o

I've been playing with rolly-o. I created a search roll for books.
Duh! This is just a test to see how it works. Here is the URL:
http://www.rollyo.com/dashboard.html

RSS feeds redux

I've delved a bit deeper into RSS fees. I spent some "quality time" with topix and feedster. I found feedster harder to use but have gotten the hang of it now. Not all of the sites that were linked had RSS feeds available. I liked feedster because you could select the format for what you were looking for, i.e., news, blogs, podcasts. I searched on polymer clay and found some very interesting info. that I don't think I would have found in any other way. I have a Bloglines account set up and am checking it every day. What a terrific timesaver it is!

I've located a few library-related blogs: Librarian's Internet Index, which can be overwhelming,
but it's worth it for the occassional gem it delivers; Library Garden, PLA blog and Shifted Librarian.

Here I experimented with Dumpr. I took a pic from flickr and "dumpred" it. Pretty cool.

" Here is my Yahoo Avatar. I played around with the image generators, but had some trouble posting the results to my blog. I will work on it during my next visit to "23 thingville".

Happy 4th

Happy 4th
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Happy Independence Day