4.9 Finding Feeds

To be quite honest, I am not sure if I liked any of the feed finders. Maybe it is because I just am not comfortable with them. They seemed to take a lot of time. They generated several items but it is difficult to decide which ones to try. Topix was neat beccause you could get local information. But I guess I would question the accuracy of some of the items since numerous people can post to the sight. I think I want to explore the Technorati site further - when I have more time. I am looking forward to reading the LibraryThing blogs.

4.8 RSS feeds and bloglines

I already had a Blogline account. I am still trying to learn options on it and how to do different things. I am not sure if I have everything set up correctly but I like the idea of being able to go to the site and then picking which news source I want to look at or which book review feed I want to check. I still need to experiment with setting up folders. I need to put in some more library related blogs and pick a couple of co-worker feeds to add.

3.7 Technology

There are some parts of my job that I cannot even begin to imagine doing without some basic technology - like a barcode reader. Trying to inventory and even be half way accurate would probably be impossible. But I also wonder if we do not reply on it too much sometimes. A couple of months ago we were just finishing dinner at Bob Evans when the power went out - it took the young lady at the register forever to make change for people paying their bills. I can still remember being taught to count back change in second or third grade math.

I am still trying to figure out all the settings on my digital camera. I don't know if I'll ever be ready for all this other stuff - wikis, RSS, tagging etc. etc. I am sure you can hear me screaming now.

But I must say I think it is very cool that the average person can ask the presidential candidates a question during the debates this month via YouTube. I am interested in watching that to see how it works.

3.6 Flickr Fun

Okay - I am really behind on this stuff - work and stuff and life seem to happen along the way. However one of the flickr items which I thought might be fun is the Flickr Flash Puzzle Zone - you can turn pictures into jogsaw puzzles. Even though I have not worked a jigsaw puzzle in a long time, I have several of them and have enjoyed them since I was a child. I also thing their map features would be pretty cool, especially if you could get really detailed.

But I am not sure how comfortable I feel with pictures or other items being up on a website even though you can mark it private. Maybe I shouldn't have read 1984.

What a Way to Weed

Yes, we need to weed in the stacks but this is not the way to do it. There was a rag in the roof drain and this was just part of the damage it did.