#15

The Library 2.0 pieces have a sci-fi feel to them, I think. Very interesting. A lot to absorb. I will mark the OCLC website somewhere so that I can check in periodically to see what's up.

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This is our cool circ display about gardening. Actually, this is only included as an exercise in transferring photos to my blog. The display really DOES look better in person.

#14 Technorati

Have looked into the Technorati site a bit and zipped aroundl, but I don't see myself using this much, at least not for now. It is interesting to look a bit at other blogs, but I don't want to get sucked into actually having "favorites." Seems like a good way to use up a lot of time that I don't really want to spend in front of a computer.

#13 del.icio.us

I think I'm getting the hang of this tagging business, and I can see how del.icio.us could be helpful for research or just nifty to be able to access when at other than the at-home computer. After learning some 13 of our 23 Things, I am experiencing a new awareness of things computer, which is nice. There is still lots of lingo out there in the media related to computers, etc., that is foreign to me, but I am increasingly coming across articles that make mention of items we've covered here, which makes me feel as if I am actually making some progress. Baby steps, maybe, but progress all the same.

#12

I've added a rollsearch as a sidebar (?), but I need to perfect this a bit. Think I have some extraneous information. Learning is a process, right?

#11! Library Thing

Here's my foray into Library Thing. I've made a list of books that I've listened to on CD or with the audiobook downloads through our library website. I need to fiddle with this a bit more to see if I can get my list to reflect that the books are indeed audibooks, but I've wanted a place to keep a list and this seems like a good start. I do like the little book covers! Here's a link to my Library Thing list: http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=debcascades

#10 Generators

I've used the Portrait Illustration Maker to do a self-portrait.

Here's the URL: http://illustmaker.abi-station.com/index_en.shtml

#9

Finding (RSS) feeds. I'm having the best luck just finding news sites that I like and clicking on the orange icon. I've explored some the Feedster, Topix.net, Syndic8. com, and the Technorati sites, but it's a bit of an information overload. I did do a search at one of the sites on an author, and that led me to an interesting political blog. The number of blogs and writing out there is a bit overwhelming.

The access to so many news sources is amazing, though it means more time in front of a computer.

All righty, I need to say something about technology in general. Life has changed big time since I was a college student, which was not all that terribly long ago. I drove to work yesterday afternoon listening to "the Computer Guys" on NPR. I was happy to listen to the computerese for an hour, but I did realize that there is a very big, fastmoving computerized world out there that is not as intuitive for me as it is for some of my younger colleagues and my kids.

I thought the Flickr site was very interesting, but I was not successful (see below) w/ my lettering experiment. Think I'll move on and possibly come back to this for another try much later.