End thoughts

There are some very clever tools available on the Internet now. Creating your own maps interests me. Creating my own Favorites using Delicio.us was fun.
As a person who is will probably not share my opinions readily with the Internet multitude, some of the other social sites are less attractive to me.
I am pleased to be able to keep up with the technology in this context. I am contemplating how to incorporate blogging into my computer class teaching.
Balancing out my desire to keep the classes low-intensity, low-jargon, one person-on-one computer in the classroom -- and on the other hand, high-intensity, high-tech, jargon-rich, broadcasting to the faceless multitudes -- there are certainly pluses and minuses on both sides.
Might lead to some interesting philosophical dialogues on the goals of public library computer training programs.
Hopefully yours ...

Suffolk Wave

In my second of two visits to SuffolkWave, I found the same results. Books that I would like to listen to are either not on SuffolkWave at all or are not available. I even tried for some books that are no longer under copyright protection. There was only one copy of the Bible available and it was only the New Testament. The Koran was not found/available. Dorothy Sayers was not available. Neither was Sherlock Holmes. Disappointing.

Podcasts

None of the podcasts I found would play on my pc. Also some of the links on the 23 Things page did not connect: "Not found"

Google Video brings in the family trees

The Birmingham Public Library has created a clever video advertizing their genealogy resources:

Cute video -- like a silent movie, with "Peeps."
I found it through Google Videos.

Goowy Webtop

I signed up for and tested the Goowy Webtop: desktop, email, games. I changed the skin, sent an email, changed my profile. The email is great and you can create mail rules for your email. I'll try more later. Not sure about the games.

Tied out Zoho Writer. Typed part of the Building Safety ... definitions page.
The page kept reformatting itself during periodic backups. It changed the line spacing 3 times to single space between paragraphs. I would change it back and save the file and then it would reformat on the next periodic save. Annoying.

Since you print out from Internet Explorer, it printed the headers and footers from the Internet Explorer settings onto the page printout. Also annoying.

The Spell checker stopped at a misspelled word but did not automatically change the word. Marginally annoying.

I would use this if nothing else was available. But ...

PBWiki

Added some favorites to the PBWiki Sandbox. Woo-hoo.

Wiki-wiki

Hawaiian for Quick.
Multiple author document -- authority? truthiness? easy to change?
Referred by one author to a website on Security on the internet --seemed to be addressed to teens and not to public library employees: "do not use your real name" ??
Convince me.

Library 2.0

Being a reader and old "paper hugger", I chose to print out some of the discussions of Library 2.0 to read later.
I am enjoying pondering how I might change my current assignments with Web 2.0 tools.
I am still wrapping my brain around how to deliver training to seniors, language-challenged adults, and technophobes using a primarily online set of tools. Got to get them to the tools first.
More thoughts on this later.

Technorati

I explored the Technorati website and favorites and claiming and choose not to tag my blog with this tool.

Delicious

I added the delicious html code to my blog page. I created a del.icio.us account and set up some favorites. I emailed them and asked how to alphabetize my favorites.

Search engine for a small genealogy search

I created two search engines for genealogy searches -- the genealogy websites are very proprietary and it is difficult to have Rollyo search the subscription sites for data that I know is there. Few results and lots of ads.

LibraryThing

Today I explored LibraryThing and created entries for two of the books I am currently reading.
The future of libraries is doomed.

Used Picture generator to create warning sign

I use a picture generator to create a warning sign about Learning.

Ya Ya Name Generator

My Ya Ya name from the Ya Ya Name Generator is: Countess Raspberry Zinger.

RSS feeds for libraries and library technology

My first feed is for library technology: "Keep Up! Practical Emerging Library Technology. This blog was set up as a part of the "Keep Up! Practical Emerging Technologies for You and Your Library" workshop, presented in late 2005 and early 2006 by Michael Porter, Training and Support Coordinator at OCLC Western."

My next feed is for keeping up with Books: "NPR Topics: Books"

My next feed is for keeping up with book reviews: "Washington Post Book reviews"

And my last feed is for keeping up with web pages: "Librarians' Internet Index: New This Week. New and newly-discovered Web sites for librarians and everyone else, updated every Thursday morning. See more resources on our site, http://lii.org/."

I could not find any RSS feeds for libraries in trees, trees in libraries, or library cats.

Saving the planet

An Inconvenient Truth opened my eyes about the waste of energy in homes and public buildings.

Compact fluorescent light bulbs can save lots of energy and save some trees.

Geese in the wind

I used a Flickr tool to take a digital photo of snow geese taking off from a field in the Skagit valley in Washington State.

I also created a Catbrarian trading card, but I got an error code when I tried to upload it to this message.

Flickr

I posted 3 photos to my Flickr account. I'm thinking about using one of them as my Photo de plume.

First post

Today's opinion: Crabapple trees are very beautiful in the Spring.