Quote of the day

Today I was checking out the quote of the day on Blogline, and found this gem by Jef Raskin, posted Aug. 10, 2007: "Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them together the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining." How 'bout that?

Library Thing

I cataloged five books which was quite easy. This would be a fun site for book discussions.

Rollyo

This is a neat site, and easy to use. I was interested in home repairs and remodelling and found many links. This was much quicker and I like the idea of "One Stop Shopping".

Library related blogs

I found the About Literature, Library Journal Best Books, and It's All Good blogs to be interesting and useful. I like the RSS feeds on Bloglines to find info. I had a good time reading the quote of the day, and word of the day. If I had lots of time, I probably would spend hours on these various sites and learn all sorts of things. However... a patron calls.

RSS Feeds

After viewing the CNET video and RSS in Plain English, I thought, O.K., here goes nothing!! Anyway, the Blogline setup went well. Subscribing to the different feeds took more time, but I now have subscribed to 18 feeds. This should make it easier to find current info quickly. Hopefully, this will be another "tool" to use in my job.

Mashups

I checked out the Flickr Color Picker, Montager and Mappr sites. My favorite was the Flickr. The Wikipedia article about mashups was very helpful. The Librarian's trading card site was interesting, too, and I especially liked the poster created by the librarian. She was reading to her two sons.