Saturday, July 14, 2007

Week 5, Thing 12: Roll your own search tool with Rollyo.

Yet another thing that I personally will not be using. It certainly was easy enough to create (once I thought up some websites to put in there). I suppose that this could be useful for someone who does frequent searches in a very narrow field.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Week 5, Thing 11: Take a look at LibraryThing and catalog some of your favorite books

Hmmm . . . Library Thing is kind of neat. I don't think I would use it for my personal library (I keep trying to pare that down), but I might use it for my church's library since it's easy to use and can be linked to from our website.

Week 4, Thing 10: Play around with an online image generator


I played with a few of these -- pretty fun, and a great way to waste a lot of time. This is one from FD Toys' Captioner.

Week 4, Thing 9: Explore MERLIN and a few useful library related-blogs and/or news feeds

I did subscribe to MERLIN (which I'll never read -- even if there were any posts in there), and a local news feed for Crofton which I found easily using topix.net.

I have to admit I'm not terribly enthusiastic about this exercise. I'm glad to know that all that information is floating around out there somewhere and that I can corral it into my own little "feed world" if I want to -- I just don't want to.

Hopefully, on to something more interesting next time!