Sailor in my black lagoon

Thing #23

A couple of times I thought that I wouldn't make it, but here I am at #23. This has been a real lesson in perseverance. I found a whole unknown cyberspace world. Some of these exercises were helpful, some seemed useless, some interesting, some boring.
Just finding out about the world of blogs was educational. Flicker and image generators were fascinating, my favorite was image chef. The social interaction and sharing were not of interest to me but good to know about.
YouTube was fun, especially since the day after I first tried it, our grandson called us from his Navy training. He mentioned that one of his buddies took videos of them in diving gear in the water and we could see it on a place called YouTube. He was very impressed when I told him that I had been on that sight the day before. I found the video the next day, even though he was barely recognizable it was a thrill to see it.
Thanks to Barb, Michele and especially Louisa for their help

Thing 22

So many choices! I will obviously need to download this from home to use my MP3 player with downloads form my computer. I never thought that I would enjoy reading a book from the computer screen, but listening to one might be worth trying.

Thing #21

Tried some podcasts, found Yahoo the easiest to use. Didn't find anything really interesting. I tried to add an RSS feed to a Library Channel podcast but got this message "string could not be parsed as XML" which was not too enlightening. I e-mailed my favorite blogadvisor, and she has yet to get back to me.
YouTube was definitly more fun.

Thing #20

Tried YouTube! AT first everything looked pretty weird, but then I found the Puehse Twins skateboarding and from there Extreme Pete, the skateboarding dog and Rodney Mullen a world champion skateboarder. Really fun to watch.

Thing #19

I logged onto the short list. I tried the "games" category #1 arcaplay, gamehouse and immediately I got "Window's is shutting down." I took this as a bad omen and tired #2,Games2Web. It required you to fill out a long questionnaire. I then tried "city guides and reviews." Yelp was # 1. Among it's small and curious selection of restaurants in Youngstown was Inner Circle Pizza, Handel's ice cream and Precious Paws Salon. Judy's place was #2 and I put in 44512 for a zip code, a veritable mother lode of stores and restaurants. Only 4 stores were listed. When I pressed additional there were stores and as far away as Warren, but no more in Boardman. Yahoo local was #3, but it was the best. The restaurants were listed by category - ethic, fast ice cream etc. Handels was one of the many listings. Only 3 furniture stores were listed and one dentist. I'm, sure that all of these will be more complete with time. It's hardly in competition with Ref USA but it's a chatty fun way to check area resources and has some pictures.

Thing #18

#18 Looked at Zoohoo, but it required an account to which they could add charges, no thanks. Tried docs.google.com - much like regular spreadsheets. I made a little document comparing SR stats for our unit for the last 3 years. I tied to e-mail it to by self but it was all garbled when I opened it. My first try at saving it to my documents came up blank, but the second worked. I can't see any advantage over excel, if you have excel.

librarian from the black lagoon

#16 & 17

Wikis are acually interesing. I didn't know that anyone could contribute to the wikipedia (a liitle scarry).The sandbox was enjoyable, I read all of the vacation favorites and added an entry there.

Thing 15

Library 2.0 is indeed mind-boggling. In the 40 year range that I have been a librarian, there have been many major changes in libraries. I don't want to think of a time when the library will not contain actual books. To serve the public, we need to keep up with technology but not leave significant numbers of our public lost in the shuffle. Our patrons range from far more advanced than us, to people who can't even use the copy machine themselves. We need to serve a broad range of interests and abilities.
One small practical suggestion that I saw on the future of libraies was to have a link from our library web site to "check nearby libraries" Since we have a number of patrons who also visit Trumbull Co. and other libraries, this could be a useful feature.

Thing 14

Went into Technorati and tried "black lagoon" and got 8,257 hits: tried "librarian from the black lagoon' and got 39 blog posts, mainly recommending the book. By comparison Google had 212,000 hits for "librarian from the black lagoon" but I didn't see any blogs (I did not check every hit!) Very interesting!

I looked over #13 again and was able to hear the tutorial. Del.icio.us seems be be for people with a lot of time and a lot of interest in what everybody else reads, thinks and talks about.

Thing 12 & 13

Got "bogged" down in Rollyo so I thought I 'd try Del.cio.us and couldn't even open the tutorial, glub, glub

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#11 registered at Library Thing. Still trying to figure out how to transfer the pictures of the books I cataloged. I can get the titles, but not the photos. Many things to check out at this site political chats, book reviews etc.
The Holy Bible King James Version:

A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive by Dave Pelzer

The client by John Grisham

The Testament by John Grisham

how's this

Week 5 #10 I think I need a few chocolates for getting the picture on.

week 4

Checked out RSS & Newsreader. More news than anyone could keep up with. looked at sites like feedblender and disruptive library techology. looking forward to play week!

#7 technology

visited SitePals - kind of like the old cut-out dolls you can dress up for grown ups - but these ones will talk to you, but they won't talk for long unless you pay to join their club.

mashed up

With Louisa's help I got all mashed up today, and a new heading.

Flickr

Have used flickr several times - There are many stunning photos, but it is not the most user friendly site. I am used to using photoshop. When I tried to send a picture to my blog, it said I haven't configured a blog to post to yet. From there on it got very confusing.

7 1/2 habits

Of the 7 1/2 habits, my favorite is #4 -have confidence in yourself as a competent, effective learner. I would also add another habit - patience!

Read most of the blogs. Looked over the 23 points. Set up blog. Tried to e-mail to YPL. How long does it take to acknowledge registration?