Thing 19

I am ridiculously proud of myself. Though prouder of figuring out how to do a screen capture on my boyfriend's iMac than anything else.

My MacBook is in the shop! Much wailing and gnashing of teeth. However, the Things continue!

MyMaps
in Google was fun. I actually do want to do a more detailed map of the
Lakeside environs, print them in color, and give them away. This would
be a HUGE service to new residents. There are no good freebie maps of
Lakeside. I have a very elderly advertising one at the reference desk
that I guard with my life. I am very excited about having something
better!

I did not find it easy to insert the picture. I could
not get rich text to work at all. I had to use HTML, which I could
manage because I did HTML coding A LOT many moons ago. However, it is
not intuitive, and not my favorite flavor. I also didn't realize that I
had to click on the libraryplacemark/balloon thingie to view the
picture. I am betting that's where someone (I think it was Ellen) had
the problem on Saturday. I am NOT logging in to Outlook Web Access from
home on my day off THIS TIME to check. I will check at work tomorrow,
and let her know. At least I hope that's the solution. In any case,
there's another out of order Thing completed. More to come later this
week.

I will also unveil having FINALLY found one dimly interesting use for twitter. Stay tuned!

Note: I somehow broke the Blogger html while I was editing the post. So I published, the had to re upload to get it right. Grrrrr.

Things 9, 11 and 12

Thing 9. OK, I don't
really get twitter .
The only person I follow never posts. The person I'd like to follow
protects her updates. So I am alone, and I can't evaluate it really. I
don't want to invite people from my address book. At some point, I
should talk about the connections I've made through href="http://www.linkedin.com">LinkedIn, from the InfoPeople Web 2.0 class I took at HQ.

Twitter is kind of like chat, but you can only post 140 characters per post. Some people call it mini-blogging.

I
asked my 21-year old daughter (my ace on the hole in terms of Life 2.0)
about it. She didn't know twitter, asked if it was like href="http://tumblr.com">tumblr? Which led me down a road
I didn't need to follow. After she'd looked at twitter, she said (and I
have her permission to quote): "It's utterly pointless and a waste of
space."

She also told me that Second Life is stupid and boring. This did make me feel a little less old and stupid.

I've
decided to give Twitter one more try. I looked up the guy whose
presentation I saw at ALA and "followed" him. Then I looked through the
people he follows, and added some more people whose blogs I admire.
However, I am not waiting with bated breath.

Thing 11. I've been using LibraryThing
off and on for a couple of years. I love the idea, but I'm lazy about
entering books. Plus, as a lifelong library user, I don't really like
the way it implies that I own every book I've read. I guess I do in the
sense they become part of my conscious, but then I look atLibraryThing
and realize I don't even remember so many. I did find href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6476403.html">a really
good article on social bookmarking and libraries, via href="http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2007/09/social-bookmark">Librarian
in Black.

Thing 12. I tooled around in rollyo a bit. It is interesting. I didn't create my own searchroll, because my interests are not that eclectic or unique that I need a special search tool. I did like the start-up reference
search roll. I put it in my del.icio.us. I may put it inrefc as well.