This is a great service. I like how librarything 'catalogues' books users enter on their shelf and how the site connects people with the same books. A great way for finding out what others with similiar reading tastes are reading.
Here's the URL for my list:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/littlelibrarygal
Now if I can just learn how to hyperlink these URL's that I have been adding to this blog.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Sunday, May 11, 2008
fototrix
www.fototrix.com
Found another great image generator. Oodles of fun to be had here. I used the rug weaver effect here.
Found another great image generator. Oodles of fun to be had here. I used the rug weaver effect here.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Image generators
I have had a lot of fun playing around with various image generators. There are a lot out there.
I like motivator as users can create posters for any occassion. Think this site would come in very handy for work.
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/motivator.php
I like motivator as users can create posters for any occassion. Think this site would come in very handy for work.
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/motivator.php
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Finding feeds
For this exercise I had a look at Feedster, Topix.net, Syndic8.com and Technorati.
I really like Topix.net as it displays news (topics) from the users home city first. Had no luck with Feedster as it would not display but I got taken to a page for joeant.com, which in itself was a good place to find feeds.
I also found Topix.net quite easy to use. Managed to find a feed for the Hawthorn Football Club, which I will add to Bloglines so that I get the latest news from my favourite AFL club. (Aren't they doing well this year.)
Using Bloglines search I found a feed for a newspaper in Emporia, Kansas, USA and to a weather station. My brother lives there and I thought it would be good to have a feed from this paper as I would then know what was happening over there, especially the weather in tornado season.
I have found when I am looking at websites that I find interesting now, I always look to see they provide RSS feeds. I currently have 21 feeds on Bloglines.
I can see how useful this application would be for libraries, especially being able to share with other people, as libraries would be able to look at what RSS feeds other libraries are using and maybe add them to their own list if they want.
What an exciting way to spend the morning of my birthday. Happy birthday to me!!!
I really like Topix.net as it displays news (topics) from the users home city first. Had no luck with Feedster as it would not display but I got taken to a page for joeant.com, which in itself was a good place to find feeds.
I also found Topix.net quite easy to use. Managed to find a feed for the Hawthorn Football Club, which I will add to Bloglines so that I get the latest news from my favourite AFL club. (Aren't they doing well this year.)
Using Bloglines search I found a feed for a newspaper in Emporia, Kansas, USA and to a weather station. My brother lives there and I thought it would be good to have a feed from this paper as I would then know what was happening over there, especially the weather in tornado season.
I have found when I am looking at websites that I find interesting now, I always look to see they provide RSS feeds. I currently have 21 feeds on Bloglines.
I can see how useful this application would be for libraries, especially being able to share with other people, as libraries would be able to look at what RSS feeds other libraries are using and maybe add them to their own list if they want.
What an exciting way to spend the morning of my birthday. Happy birthday to me!!!
Friday, May 2, 2008
RSS feeds
I set up an account with Bloglines and have added 18 feeds. It took some time to find sites that interest me and offer RSS but think I have enough for now.
http://www.bloglines.com/public/littlelibrarygal
I found that getting the URL so I could paste it here was a bit hard at first, as I could not follow the steps given. Went into accounts and changed my settings to public there so hopefully people will be able to follow the above link if they want to.
Having everything sent to one page will make it easier to find information and if I don't get what I want from a particular feed then I can always "trash" it. I have chosen pages that relate to libraries, books and personal interest, so should be able to get something from them.
I hope that - '#8 Make life "really simple" with RSS & a newsreader' does make life somewhat simpler when looking for information on the Internet.
http://www.bloglines.com/public/littlelibrarygal
I found that getting the URL so I could paste it here was a bit hard at first, as I could not follow the steps given. Went into accounts and changed my settings to public there so hopefully people will be able to follow the above link if they want to.
Having everything sent to one page will make it easier to find information and if I don't get what I want from a particular feed then I can always "trash" it. I have chosen pages that relate to libraries, books and personal interest, so should be able to get something from them.
I hope that - '#8 Make life "really simple" with RSS & a newsreader' does make life somewhat simpler when looking for information on the Internet.
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