Del.icio.us

I thought that Del.icio.us might be useful for me since I often use computers other than my own. When I am working with the public at a different computer it is sometimes frustrating to not have my familiar favorites to go to to quickly find a site that I use a lot. Since it is bookmarked on my computer (either at work or at home) I have likely forgotten how to get at the site any way except by clicking on my favorites. However I never quite caught on to using Del.icio.us. I did set up an account and I did try putting my favorites into it. But I didn't get it working in any useful way. I think my best bet is to just be more familiar with the sites which I often use and to remember the keywords I need to get to them.

I did however find some sites via Del.icio.us that I have bookmarked on my computer and plan to use. On the otherhand I found a good site on Del.icio.us that I wanted to bookmark but didn't right then and then couldn't figure out how to get back to it. Altogether this was not my best unit even though I did end up spending a lot of time in it.

Youtube

At our staff meeting yesterday someone tried to show a video from the Arlington Heights Memorial Library website. http://www.ahml.info/ Since she was unable to get it to play, I thought I would go to the Arlington Heights Library website and look at the video. Well, I forgot which one she was going to show but I did look at some on the site. They are a good example of what you can do with Youtube on a library site. They appear to have at least a video each week which tells what they are doing that week and often highlights a library program or feature. I watched one about library databases. I also watched one with their parade float. But my favorite was about their technical services department. It was not serious so it wasn't truly informative, but it was odd, and therefore fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6iRDOe4Bw4

Podcasts

I certainly haven't explored everything about podcasts yet. I haven't subscribed to one yet but I did just spend the last hour and a half listening to some just for fun. I will in the future look into what is available with library content. I know I have seen information about archived workshops, etc. on places like OCLC. I haven't looked into how to get at them. I think this lesson will help me go on and look into them and listen to some. I hope that this may help me keep up better on some library issues.

Library thing

I picked some fairly obscure books to add to my library thing catalog. On a few of them I was amazed that they weren't as obscure as I had thought, about 50 others had them. Others that I thought would be a little more popular only had about 50. It was fun to see that others liked some these books, but dismaying to see that others of my favorites weren't as well liked as I would have thought.

I selected Skid Road an informal history of Seattle by Murray Morgan as one of my books. It was fun to see what other people who also selected it had as some of their other books. They had a lot of books which I had read as a result of reading Skid Road. I hadn't thought of those other books for quite awhile.

I was pretty sure I would be the only person with Ski Lodge Mystery by Montgomery M. Atwater. But there is one other person who has it. It was nice to see that someone else has heard of it. I read and reread that book when I was young. It was my absolute favorite book for quite awhile.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/fcllibrarian

Rollyo

I thought a genealogy rollyo would be neat. So often when I do a search on google for a name from the past for genealogy purposes, I get annoyed by all of the nongenealogical listings it brings up. A genealogy rollyo will weed out all of those nonpertinent results. I need to work on my rollyo some more to add more and better sites. I started with someone elses rollyo and added to it but someday I need to take time to edit out some of their sites which I don't need and explore even more that I can add.

While working on this I saw a "recipe" rollyo. I like that idea also. I often use the internet for recipe searches.

Same picture, different effect

It is just amazing how different the same picture can be and this only just scratches the surface.

Sunset

I used http://www79.lunapic.com/editor/?action=photo-spread to make this. One amazing thing about playing with this site is that with the photo emboss effect I could suddenly see the house in the foreground and the swingset in its back yard. Of course you couldn't see the beautiful sunset anymore. I didn't realize their details were even there.

Behind

I just did not have time last week to play. So this week I need to do two weeks of lessons. I started last night and spent a whole hour having fun generating pictures and didn't come up with something worthy of putting on this blog. Although I did send one to my daughter. It was a bad week to be behind since it was such a fun lesson. So I look forward to more play with pictures. Hopefully I won't have so much fun that I won't be able to tear myself away to work on this weeks.

I am pleased that I seem to have started my daughter on something. I have gotten two great "postcards" from her since I sent her a trading card. The postcards are a lot like trading cards. From now on I will have to let her know where I am making things when I send them so she can play also.