Thing # 10

Thanks to cooltext.com I now am the proud owner of a title logo for my blog. I'll try to think of other places I might use it although nothing comes to mind.

Thing # 9

Week 4 continued. There was a tomorrow; it just didn't arrive as soon as I expected. Life and other work intervened. However, I have had a fun 45 minutes exploring The Shifted Librarian. The first item I looked at was apropos of recent discussion at our service level meetings on filtering or limiting access for children to the MySpace site. Senator Matt Murphy of Illinois has put together a bill which would ban his selected top 10 sites from libraries. As it turns out Bloglines, where he has his own blog and from which he conducted an open forum, is on his top 10 list. From there I looked at "Things I've Learned from ALA 2.0 Lately". The Nick Baker videos are priceless, especially the "March of the Librarians". There was also a video created by some high school students, called Library Ninja, Defender of Books, showing how books may often be quicker in answering a (ready reference) question than going on the Internet.
I could go on, but I will spare anyone who looks at this. Other useful sites I visited were ALA Professional Tips Wiki, About Literature:Contemporary, and the NYT Book Review (which I already receive directly into my email).

Thing #8

I have setup my Bloglines account, but since I am using my home email account and will have to confirm from there, I guess I will have to wait until tomorrow to add my news feeds, etc. to my account. Presumably there will be a tomorrow.

Thing #6 & 7

I guess I didn't get around to talking about my whole visit to flickr when last I posted (English-style horseback riding). I enjoyed my visit to the Meeteetse Branch Library's flickr collection (first attracted by the name of the library) and hope to steal some of their ideas for an adult summer reading program. They gave out a ticket for each book or audio book checked out which enters the customer in a raffle to win a digital audio player. We need to think up a nice prize and find a donor. Anybody have a friend at Target?
This isn't going to win me any points, but I'm not that interested in technology. My goal here is to become acquainted with these various technologies so that I know what people are talking about, but I don't have sufficient interest to spend my spare time on them, in them or with them. Sorry.

#5 explore flickr

Aside from the fact that someone can't spell flicker, I think this tool is way cool. I think I may give up my job and bathing so that I will have time to play with this. I may also need a digital camera, huh? I have all kinds of photo tools on my Mac and have never learned how to use any of them. flickr certainly has an easy seeming interface.

#4

Just checked my email account and my registration message did not bounce back. Yippee! (It doesn't take much to make me happy)

#3 & #4

I have completed the setup process as evidenced by the fact that this will be my third entry in my blog. Post #1 was about not liking to be read to. I think I have been successful in the registration process as well. I will check this out next in my email. A mail delivery problem notice will tell me is I was successful or not.