Rollyo, LibraryThing & Image Generators

Rollyo I found to be a little difficult but with a little help I was able to get my search engine together. My URL: http://rollyo.com/ebonyqueen70/my_ebonyshopsearch/
LibraryThing I also had a little trouble with librarything but one I figure out what to do I had no problems. I also like the fact that I could add my librarything catalog to my blog. Check it on the side above my links. The image generator was the easiest of the three to do. I rather enjoyed this week and I will probable to continue to use both my rollyo and librarything account once the course is over for my own personal use.

More Chocolate Please

Who wants chocolate?

RSS Feeds

To subscribe a RSS feed I found to be very easy to do. I thought it would be hard but it was very simple. RSS feed would be something I would use in that it will allow me to receive update information and/or news that I was interested in, especially weather updates. It will allow me to continue working and I don’t have to remember to go the website to find out the latest updates. RSS has the advantage of getting information to the people who want the information. While looking for library related blogs that use RSS feed was not that difficult to find. I was able to find a website that list the different libraries that have blogs with RSS feeds.

http://www.dmoz.org/Reference/Libraries/Library_and_Information_Science/Weblogs/Organizational_Weblogs/

Flickr

I found flickr to be an interesting tool for sharing photos. However I did have a little trouble with the application Pictobrowser but I had no trouble with Prntr Killr, I found this one to a good tool. I would probably use this in the future because it will allow me to capture old memories in an updated fashion. As far as posting personal photos on flickr I would not display them. I may be a little paranoid but it is just too much stuff going on these days and once your photo is on the Internet, it’s there and you can loss control of your own image. That why I chose to just display images from special events or holiday photos. I just don’t feel comfortable putting images of my children especially my daughters on the Internet. Here is my flickr account http://www.flickr.com/photos/ebonyqueen_70/

Flickr I think would be better used to promote a business or non-for-profit organziation not really for personal use. I have include a link for a library that uses flickr I thought the slide show was very good.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/59804400@N00/sets/72157600402628412/show/

Academic Libraries Blog

If you want to see what other libraries blog look like click below for a list.
http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/links/index.php?title=Academic_libraries

What is Web 2.0

Here is article I thought was interesting on Web 2.0 for those who wanted to know what it was about.

http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/webbuilding/page4758.cfm?cg=searchterms&sg=what%20is%20web%202.0%20anyway

Blogging Experience Highlights

My Blogging Experience

Technology is changing daily and ways to communicate and get a message to a large audience have been improving at the same time. Simple meeting people has change drastically you no longer have to go out you can simple sit at home on your computer and have friendships around the world. I don’t know if this is a good thing, me personally I like to see my friends face to face. However I do understand the need for this technology with everyone having such busy lives you cannot always have face to face visits. So I guess in the long run it can save you time. I hope to learn about all the technology that is available so I don’t get left in the dark.

At first I was unsure about create a blog. I have never really understood what a blog was but once I read the information about blog I thought this is an excellent tool to use. After searching the Internet I discovered that you can create a blog in less than 5 minutes and post it. I also discovered that blogs can help you get opinions on just about any subjects you which. I found one such blog about presidential candidate Barack Obama, (Unfortunately I can't remember the name of the blog and I didn't write it down.) If was a blog someone was writing an essay on Obama and they wanted others opinion on him and boy where there a wide range of opinions. I found this to be interesting because there were so many viewpoints about him.

When I first heard that we had to create a blog I was nervous about the whole process but I found that creating the blog was very easy. I became very fascinated with the creative part and I became very comfortable so I decided to create two blogs, one for this course and other for friends who I don’t get to see very often but email a lot. I thought the blog would be more fun than simple emailing. I have encouraged them to post comments and share family news and special events that.

The one blog I found http://journals.aol.com/gods4all/the-christian-walk/ was just what I was looking for someone who on the same christian walk as myself. I found him openness and honesty about his christian walk inspiring. I hope to be the person God wants me to be and walk the walk he wants me to walk.

Blogging Help

ARE YOU A NEW BLOGGER?

Here is a site that may help you, it provides answers to common questions about blog.

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/02/14/blogging-for-beginners-2/