tagging #13

I can see that this tool is ideal for research purposes. It looks like a little personal cataloging system of one's own. It seems to save a lot of time in finding certain sites, along with help from other users' tag suggestions and comments. Reading reviews on products and issues helps me to make more sound decisions, so I see the comments feature as useful. Having access to these from anywhere adds convenience.

library elf #12

Library elf seems like it has some useful features for those who may need it. I couldn't get it to work, but it looks like I wouldn't need to use it anyway. I already get reminder emails through our system for everything, so I prefer not to double or triple them. We do get a lot of patrons who want a list of past items that were checked-out, and I think that feature on elf is ideal for them.

library thing #11

I was excited to find a few of my favorite books on Library Thing. You can see most of them to the right, under the magazine cover, and at the link http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php.

image generators #10

I liked FDToys the best, http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/. It did take some time to get the thing onto my sight. It's the magazine cover on the top right of the page. I'm not crazy about little animated people, but everyone's raving about them, so I may give one a try later. I didn't care for the other generator options.

finding feeds #9

The easiest tools to use were Bloglines & Feedster. Topix was fairly easy, but I didn't find anything interesting for Houston stories. Technorati was easy to use, but didn't give me many results for anything. By the time I got around to Syndic8, I was on "information overload"; it was the least interesting site for me; my eyes didn't no which way to look because there wasn't much delineation between areas on the pages.

Feedster did help me find a couple of promising music blogs. They look like they may have information on types of music I'm interested in, which is not easy to find. One of the music blogs, Tables Turned, even gives instructions on how to start-up a podcast radio station!

I didn't pay too much attention to other ways of finding newsfeeds because of the reason above, "information overload":P

rss feed/newsreader #8

This exercise was easy enough, and I appreciated that. I probably won't have enough time in the day to look at all the feeds I subscribed to, but I will at least attempt it. I was surprised at how many feeds are out there in the world. I'm sure that I've only scratched the surface.

photo editing #7