My Bloglines

Check the lefthand side of my Blog for my favorite feeds. Do you think I went a little overboard? I just think it is so cool that I can have my favorite news and information sources in one place. I don't always have time to seach out each one and it's great to share my favorites with others.

My Search Roll begins NOW

Thing #11 has participants explore Rollyo and create a search roll. I choose the topic "Voluntary Simplicity". Here's a nifty way to have favorite web sites all in one place to access quickly and to share with others. Check this out.

http://rollyo.com/outlandermd/voluntary_simplicity/

Energized with Generators

Guess what? I have a goth name. Yep. It's Velvet Dreams and I love it. I've gone to this website: http://www.necroticobsession.com/gothname.html and with a few flicks of my fingers on the keyboard and my little ole first and last name, I now have a wonderful new goth one. I feel positively made over. Nope, I didn't have to join anything to get the name. It's too easy. Try it.

So, here's another generator. This is as simple as making the goth name. It's so nice that the really accomplished techie people can create activities for wee mere mortals. Try http://www.signgenerator.org/.

Isn't Lurch just awesome. He has that look about him and I felt he

capture the essence of summer reading on its final day.

RSS Feeds for the Information Hungry

So, I have a basic understanding of the RSS feed concept. I mean who would have thought? Anyway, I'm a big fan of BBC World so having this accessible to me on my blogline account is very convenient.

Trading Cards Can Make Someone Smile

So I worked with the mashups and made a trading card for Linda, one of our circulation staff. She was rather taken with Daisy, a beautiful pot-bellied pig that can read. No Kidding. I missed Daisy's visit with Farmer Minor but was told that Daisy was quite the lady. I heard some folks wanted to adopt her as our branch mascot.

This completes Thing #6 of 23-- about a fourth of the way to techno heaven.

Mashups For The Fun Of It!

So, I'm investigating Flickr (not for the first time) and mashups (for the first time). Isn't it amazing what those techno geniuses have created for all of us without a clue. I'm so impressed!
Today, I'm playing with "Montager" since it was recommended in the Week #3 assignment. (Yes, that's where I am!)

First I thought I'd explore the tag, "knitting". But that was pretty boring. (No offense meant. I love knitting but right now I want something more visuallu stimulating to my soul). So now I'm searching the tag , "Yurt". Someday I may live in a yurt at Annie's place. No kidding. Okay, I've stop searching for yurts. There were 400ish images and I got stuck with a mosaic downloading. No time for that!
I'm ggoing o nthe reference desk. I'll be back.