Rollyo

Here is my rollyo. (PS I LOVE widgets!!!)

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Success! Library Thing

I embedded a widget! I wasn't sure if could do it. But I did! Woot! Anywho, I really really like Library Thing. I have wanted a catalog of my books for a while now. As soon as I have free time, I am going to put all of my books on Library Thing. I am amazed at the variety of resources available on the internet. My favorite Library Thing feature is rating thingy. I always forget how much I like/dislike the books I read. I'm glad to have an easy way to remember.

Widget?

Technorati

I never knew that there was a search engine directed at blogs! If I were more in to blogging, this would be a revelation. As it is, it is merely interesting. I was surprised by the amount of blogs about books. (I am going to spend quite a bit of time perusing those.) There were surprisingly few blogs about pets however. If I ever want to have a popular blog, I know what I'm writing it about! As far as the different search tools go, I prefer the blog search. I found what I was looking for much more easily. The post search tool returns more varied results though.

Del.icio.us

For this assignment, we were to explore del.icio.us, a social bookmarking site. I have to admit, I didn't like it very much. I can see why it would be useful as far as being able to bookmark sites no matter what computer you are using. However, the social side of it is a bit beyond me. I think that I will use this in the future for when I research things in the library or on computers that don't belong to me. It is a very useful way to keep track of references and such. I tried looking through the more popular tags and bookmarks, but didn't find anything terribly useful. All in all, the experience was useful, if only to have another research tool.

Play

Online image generators are incredibly time sucking. It is so much fun to see all of the creative things people have come up with. My favorite that I found was the MadMen image generator. Here was my favorite image.

Flickr

Flickr is not something that I knew about before this assignment. I had a hard time getting used to how to use it, and, truth be told, I still have quite a few problems. For the assignment we were supposed to find a school library photo and include it in this blog so... I did. I also made a mashup thingy. It was rather fun. It might become a huge time waster for me. I'm not sure what else I am supposed to do for this post so I guess I'm gonna leave it at that.