Getting Technical with Technorati

I've been exploring Technorati today. Technorati is a web blog search device, for lack of better terms. I've found many neat blog entries after searching "blogs about libraries" with search parameters of "with alot of authority", and "in english only". I've even added some of these blogs to my RSS feeder account. Heaven knows...I'd hate to miss out on something!

Rollyo chocolate bars...Del-icio-us...I'm sensing a theme.

I just completed #13 of The 23 Things. This lesson was an introduction to tagging and Del-icio-us. As always...I played with this site and found tagging to be an incredibly nifty function. As with Rollyo, I can see a wonderful possibility for tags to assist with popular reference questions. (I also appreciated the fact that I was able to find a tag for my personal favourite..."Trans Am").

Rollyo?? Isn't that a chocolate bar??

I've just completed the Rollyo portion of my 23 Things project. I can see how this could be an immensely handy little thing to help with reference questions on everything from "Pioneers" to "Native Canadians" to various countries. I've created my Rollyo account and searchroll. With the weather finally turning warmer, my thoughts tend to go elsewhere at this time of year, so my searchroll consists of websites for performance and reproduction parts for my Trans Am (after all...we do pride ourselves on "speedy" service at LC!).

Library Thing checks out Library Thing.

I've just discovered Library Thing. What fun! Library Thing is a wonderfully easy to manage and navigate. This was yet another project that I could easily get lost in for hours. I was the model of restraint though, and only played with a few functions. I've attached a (slightly eclectic) list of some of my favourite books (see side bar). I must admit...I had to delete a few selections...in mere seconds, I had waaaay too many to list!

Is it the LC Librarian, or Pamela Anderson? You be the judge.

Yep, you guessed it...I've completed #10 of my 23 Things. I must admit...I had waaaaay too much fun with this project also. I used two different image generators, Yahoo, and The Generator Blog, to create two vastly different images. I've attached the one that works the best for me. Is it the LC Librarian, or Pamela Anderson? You be the judge.

Amazing Feeds of Strength!

I've completed #9 in my 23 Things project. I've had a look at a few RSS and blog search engines and I must admit that I preferred Bloglines search because it's the RSS feeder that I have an account with. I noticed that, for whatever wonderful reason, Topix.net opened with feeds from London, Ontario...which is cool...but I'm not exactly sure how that happened. I also found Feedster to be the most difficult to navigate, but that could just be because I'm on hour 10 of an 11 hour day. I've emailed my link to my home address, and I'm looking forward to checking my Feeder Reader from home over the weekend!
Happy Easter 2007 everyone!

Feeds? Great! I love to eat!

What incredibly handy little devils these turned out to be! Things have been so wonderfully busy lately, and it's been so long since I perused a newspaper, that I feel like I've been living in a current events vacuum. Now I've created my own account using Bloglines which I can use to quickly see what's new when I have a couple of minutes. I've subscribed to news feeds like Bloglines News, CBC Top Stories, Reuters News, and Yahoo News. Professionally speaking, I subsribed to Librarians Internet Index, The Shifted Librarian, NYT Book Review. Just for funzies (and to increase my Trivial Pursuit prowess) I subscribed to Quotes of the Day...but I was disappointed to find that New Urban Legends had nothing to do with a cute, little, Australian, country singer. I tried to attach my "feeds menu" to this blog using the Learning 2.0 tutorial, but I seem to be having some difficulty locating the necessary tab.

Now, if you'll excuse me...all this talk of "feeds" has made me hungry!