Library 2.0 - Thing #15

I found Dr. Schulz's concept of Library 3.0 interesting. I think I like the idea of boks/materials having personalities and avatars of their own.

I wasn't too inspired by the other articles that I read. Maybe it's too late in the day. Maybe because it's the Friday before a holiday weekend. Sorry - no more thoughts.

Thing 13 - Del.icio.us

I found a site "Yarra Plenty Online Learning" that talked about a program no unlike out 23 Things. There was a photo proclaiming the joys of Online Learning and Web 2.0 from Australia. Very cool. The Internet does make the world much smaller.

I posted a comment to the owner of the blog (is that the right term?) encouraging her continued pursuit of Web 2.0 learning.

Rollyo - a dud

I guess I don't get it. It seems like a dud to me. Did I do it right? Sorry. I just don't see the attraction to Rollyo. Maybe I'm too detail oriented. When I'm looking for something, I don't have a problem finding it through Google or such.

This one wasn't a hit with me.

Library Thing

We heard about Library Thing at CUGM last September. Interesting concept. I would have never thought that there would be regular people out there wanting to create their own catalogs for their personal libraries. Here were my selections:

Third Base Is My Home by Brooks Robinson Brooks - the best third basemen EVER!
6 other members. Tags: None (edit)


Latin for Dummies by Clifford A. Hull My favorite subject in high school.
43 other members. Tags: None (edit)


Larousse Concise Dictionary: French-English/English-French (Larousse Concise Dic ...
57 other members. Tags: None (edit) Parlez-vous francais?


Winnie the Pooh 80th Anniversary Edition by A.A. Milne Love the Pooh!
69 other members. Tags: None (edit)


Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery Love Anne. Just a great character.
3253 other members. Tags: None (edit)

Is that an odd collection - probably. :)

My avatar

This was kind of fun. I could have spent hours creating new Avatars. They are a little more involved than creating Miis on the Wii. I can pretend that that is me now - in Paris and not in my cubicle in the basement. Allons a Paris!

RSS Feeds

Today I finally got back to my 23 Things. I learned all about RSS feeds. These had been talked about heavily at CARL User's Group meetings for the last two years. Now I finally understand what they are all about.

The most difficult thing for me was figuring out how and when I could link the page's information for a feed. Not all the sites I was interested in have them. The easiest method for me was to copy and paste the URL for the feed into Bloglines rather than search for them from the Bloglines site. At one point I "lost" my first feed. It turns out that I missed the second subscribe button that was at the bottom of the page. I hadn't scrolled down enough. Thanks to Ellen for figuring that out for me!!! :)