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Meet my newest family member. We adopted Spot today. He is a two-year old Chihuahua/rat terrier mix, and weighs ten pounds.

Things 4 & 5

I haven't hung around flickr lately. One of my favorite things is still the group, Librarians' Desk. It just tickles me. That's my home desk in Philly. The caption says "I think the lack of focus is key."

I didn't love the mashups. I liked doing Spell with Flickr, but when I put it on my blog, it spelled vertically and looked bad--it just pulled some random letters, not the pretty ones I picked. Mphft. I left it up as a lesson/warning.

I did like captioner. I couldn't resist this,
though I had some difficulty thinking of a way to use it. I think teens could have fun doing a bunch of these for a program. I thought teens might also enjoy fastr, though I was terrible, and there's another image labeling game on Google I like better.

I guess actually trying to do something with an API is too much for this class, but it stills seems interesting.

Wheeee--a feed!

Thanks, Jenne.


I just added the rss feed to my blog, so now you can listen to the podcasts from here: http://23lkthings.blogspot.com/


The new Blogger template makes this kind of thing very easy. Yeah!

Lisle


"...me figuraba el Paraíso bajo la especie de una biblioteca" --Jorge Borges


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From: B., Jenne
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 1:54 PM
Subject: Rule the Web

We just received a new book called Rule the Web by Mark Frauenfelder. It looks like an excellent resource for learning Web 2.0 stuff.

There’s also a website at www.ruletheweb.net .

Jenne B.

Just mahvelous

This was Molly, one of my staff member's, favorite photos from an Adult Summer Reading event. I'm handing out ice cream to performers, in my Summer Reading t-shirt. Molly captioned it "Mahvelous darlings, simply mahvelous."

Good reads

I worked out how to get GoodReads on the blog, following in Jenne's fotsteps. It's ok. Please note that it says I read a whole lot of books yesterday, because that's when I was playing around with the site. GoodReads uses the Amazon database. I may go back to LibraryThing, because their database includes more sources, like LOC for goodness' sake. It also leads to a MARC record, which always warms the cockles of this librarian's heart.

Free web-based email

Inbox.com - Login

This was in a string on Web4lib about teaching free web-based email. I set up an account. I'm just saving this here so I don't forget about it completely.

What Boomers Want - 7/15/2007 - Library Journal

What Boomers Want - 7/15/2007 - Library Journal

Food for thought

Infopeople's 23 Things (Our 23 Web 2.0 Things Challenge)

Our 23 Things (Our 23 Web 2.0 Things Challenge)

I'm just posting this here to clarify for anyone looking to see the what and why of what's going on here. I'm doing the challenge with a whole big crew from MPOW--the entire system. I think it will be fun, and I hope it will generate more enthusiasm for Web 2.0. My hidden agenda is to make things more transparent for staff and customers.

what and why I am doing this

I'm doing InfoPeople's 23 Web 2.0 Things challenge for the California library community.

So far, I've done week 1. All the podcasts and tutorials worked just fine on the PC in our office-yeah! I was worried because that has not always been the case D: But so far so good.

I did a Learning Contract, and printed and signed it, which did feel like more of a commitment.

I had budgeted 1.5 hours for week one's exercises, but only used 45 minutes, so I dashed merrily along into week two. I did have a headstart, since I've been blogging for 3 or 4 years...but I have been bad about updating my blog lately, so this in part to serve me some motivation for that.

I almost said my goal was to do a podcast, but there's no microphone for my work PC. If I have time/energy, maybe I'll bring in my laptop and try it.