Good Name for a Dog

Hey, do you think "Widget" would be a good name for a dog? I'm thinking maybe a pug.

I remember one four-year-old girl I taught once, who was very small--more petite than any of her classmates. She said to me softly, "I'm bigger than Molly...Molly the pug." So cute!

Preschoolers are the best.

(Picture is by M Sarz, found on Flickr.com)

Link to LibraryThing

Oh, it says in lesson #14 that we must provide a link to our LibraryThing account. Is it sufficient that I added a widget to display some random books from my library?

PS I am glad to learn about how to add a widget to my blog! Thanks, 27 Things for encouraging me to learn something new every day. Though I was familiar with many of the tools we've been exploring, my knowledge of them has grown deeper thanks to these lessons.

GuruLib

I signed up for GuruLib because I saw that it features the ability to write reviews about your books, DVDs, games and more. That's nice that it's not just about books since more and more people are format-agnostic and also because many people I know have more extensive movie collections that book collections.

But I couldn't add Final Fantasy X to my game section due to a hardware upgrade. Shucks! This means my GuruLib account may die if I forget about it because I didn't have the chance to try it out on the first time. Crucial moment.

LibraryThang

Okay, I'm slowly falling in love with LibraryThing too. I have three accounts, though two were for demo purposes and I forgot what they are! I'm also unsure about sharing what's in my library with others because I'm pretty reserved, and hesitant to reveal much of my personality at work. But, I'll go wild and give you a glimpse into my library (I own about four bookcases' worth of books, but am inputting just what comes to mind)....

I'd love to have a LibraryThing account for books I've read too, sort of an online book journal. That would come in handy for booktalks too. And to let people look up if you've read something and commented about it. You could also insert new comments if you read a book multiple times, and marvel at how your response changes over time.

I guess I could just create a separate LibraryThing account for this, but there's not really a space for writing annotations about the books, just adding tags.

Caught Up!

I'm happy to be caught up w/ the 27 Things lessons. I know we'll get an extra month to complete them, but it's still nice to be current.

I searched Technorati with the keywords "Learning 2.0" and saw how the results changed when I searched blog posts, tags, and the blog directory.

It was fun to search using the keyword "KCLS27Things" and see coworkers' blog posts appear in the results.

Scr.ump.tio.us!

I like del.icio.us a lot. I first discovered it last year, thanks to a Weekly Memo tip. I love the flexibility of tags and being able to see which websites my friends like. I usually try to make my tags useful, though I confess that on this blog I've been creating disposable tags just for fun.

As for library application, I see the benefit of having a department share an account of useful links. Also making accounts specific to certain areas of research too, such as genealogy, as a service to patrons.

Speaking of patrons, I bet ours would love to participate in 27 Things too! I wonder if there'll be a program later that invites them to learn 2.0 technologies as well. Since we're "the people's university" and all...

Wariness Quickly Evolves Into Disgust

Hello again. I had to update my account settings for MySpace to stop the notification e-mails about friend requests from strangers in the Midwest. Two in five minutes!

Then, looking at my MySpace homepage, I felt a little sickened by the gross design and the flashing ads. Go away, obnoxiously oversized blinkin' ads! I'm sure I have to pay money for a premium account to banish them from my page.

Somebody Cares!

Okay, I promise that this is the last post related to the book Nobody Cares What You Had For Lunch.

I think I found someone who might care after all....

Thanks, Love-a-Lot Bear!

MySpace Not YourSpace

My good friend V urged me two or three years ago to set up a MySpace and a Friendster account. After frequent requests, I finally did. I looked up some high school and college friends and acquaintances, and then I said, "Now what?"

Even though we're a year apart in age, I've noticed that people from her class and later are much more present on social networking sites than my class and earlier.

Although I appreciate social networking in a cautious way, I dislike MySpace because it looks so tacky and also the creep factor associated with online stalkers. Also, I agree with Stephen Abram's daughter that it's the most teenyboppery of social network sites.

I do see how it's nice to have a pseudo e-mail service and a blog and lots more integrated in one site. But since I'd rather not have acquaintances see my personal blog, it's hosted through a different site and this handy dandy feature is therefore useless to me.

More importantly, after reading the articles linked to on the 27Things blog, I am growing in conviction that if our patrons are there, we should be there as well.

Nobody Cares What I Had for Lunch, But What About What I Had for Dinner?

A spicy tomato stew with pork, peas, carrots, and onions (of Filipino origin?). Yum.

What Do You Mean, Nobody Cares About What I Had for Lunch?

In honor of the book Nobody Cares What You Had For Lunch, by Margaret Mason, I will be posting about what I had for lunch.

Today, it was a Mexican vinaigrette salad from Acapulco Fresh. Tasty!

Subscribe to me...

The title of this post is a lame and impotent attempt to hypnotize unwitting visitors into subscribing to this modest blog.

I see from my Bloglines account that 3 people are subscribed to my account. Since I had to add my own blog to Bloglines in order to view this information, I deduce that the actual number of people subscribed is 2. Shucks! At least I am able to subtract, though. This is good news.

Hungry for Feeds

I tried searching for blogs about css in Feedster, but the results didn't seem very relevant. I'm not a huge fan of keyword searching because it usually comes up with some crazy results that you have to work to sift through--sort of like shopping at Goodwill...there are definitely treasures, but you have to look through maybe fifty to a hundred items to find something you actually like.

Which reminds me of the importance of cataloging, or some other method of information organization. After taking a class on the subject, I have become convicted of the importance of ordering resources well to facilitate retrieval and browsing.

Anyway, I appreciate the categories that Feedster presents for users to browse; however, the feeds seem to be arranged by when they were last updated, which is kinda interesting...but not really.

Bloglines

I've been using Bloglines for several months now...I'm tracking so many blogs that most days there are 300-500 posts to read, which overwhelms me, so I end up skimming them and feeling like it's a chore.

I do find interesting news or tools every day, and often forward them to friends or classmates.

I appreciated learning about an alternate way of subscribing to a feed--by clicking on the Add link under Feeds, and pasting the url of the desired website. I've been using the Sub With Bloglines button, which is simpler and still my preferred method; however, it's nice to know about other ways of doing things.

Monster Mash!

Of the Flickr 'n' Friends mashups highlighted on the 27 Things blog post for today, I am most excited about Spell With Flickr and Flickr Color Pickr. I am taking a class on designing web pages, and these two tools may come in handy. At least, I am re-inspired to work on my web pages because of these mashups.

Great Crepes!

I found this photo on Flickr, courtesy of finistere. I haven't been to this particular creperie, but I think it is beautiful. One of the things I miss most about France are the yummylicious crepes (esp with Nutella)!