Technorati

My, there are a lot of people who have things to say about Sanjaya!! For me, it was the most interesting to check the "top searches". I also went to google and typed in "Sanjaya blog" and "Sanjay blog posts" and got many blogs as well. Including the link to technorati's list of Sanjaya blogs.
I feel like I have been repeating myself about many of the things we have been learning. It is wonderful to learn and I feel much more knowledgeable about what is "out there" on the web. But, these things are not useful to me. I can't give up what little time I spend with my family to search the web and use these tools.

Rollyo and Delicious

Interesting idea and it was fun to look at Debra Messings roll. I used my passion in life to create my roll - shopping! I would not use it in my personal life and I do see how it can be helpful for research or reference help. If you have millions of questions on American Indians, create a roll for that. Or science fair projects. But, we are trying to encourage the students to use our databases for research and you can choose a cross database search from the list alphabetically and/or by category. So, shouldn't we use that feature? I feel the same way toward Del.icou.us. There are probably only 3 sites that I religiously check. That is not enough to set up a permanent account in either of these. Although, the idea is great (especially being able to access it from anywhere), it wouldn't work for me. It was fun checking the popular and recent tags posted. I found a weird little cartoon with Harry Potter in it!! :)

Time to Catalog! NOT!

Libary thing is a fun little web site. I will not, and do not have the time to use this as it is intended. I also used the tag feature for little notes instead of "cataloging" purposes.
I liked the Unsuggester - neat!
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=chrisleary

Generate this!

That was fun. There are a lot of "crude" generator tricks out there.

Again, all in the name of work!

RSS (things 8 & 9)

Wow! Information overload!!!!
Positives : I learned what RSS means. I have seen and read some funny things after subscribing to the "Got Laughs" feed and got to call it "work". Found out QVC has a feed.
Not so positives: In my personal life, I do not spend a lot of time searching the web. I watch the 11:00 news and that is my news for the day. I don't visit many websites. So, why would I need all this information every day? How would I use this technology as a Youth Services Librarian? Anyone got ideas they can share with me?

Blog about technology

Well.... there are two ways I look at it.
First - yippee, bravo, and cool - I get to email my sisters who are in other states in the middle of the night or early morning. I can have 3 way conference calls with my sisters. I can download music from itunes that reminds me of a different time with a different set of friends (get out of my life why don't you babe..oh, oh, oh. Cause you don't really love me. You just keep me hanging on....) :)

Second - I consider myself a technology widow on most days. What does my husband's computer have that I don't have. A mouse? So what!! So, there are lots of disadvantages to technology too. And for the people who just cannot LIVE without their cell phones, I always think of what my dad said when we tried to get him to buy one - "Why would I want your mom to be able to call me at anytime?" He now has one, but doesn't use it. And people talking on their phones during storytimes. Come on, when did that become okay to do?
I'll stop now.

Lovely picture I found using color match. But again, why would I use this tool? It was very nice looking at lots photos that matched the shade of blue I chose. But?.......