Week 6 #13

I checked out the LibraryThing listing on del.icio.us, which was saved by 13,430 people. Maybe the vast number of people who decided to save this site is an indicator of the usefulness of the site? I clicked on another site on the Ihcpl account which was just an individual blog saved by only one person, so maybe so. I wouldn't want to spend much, if any time, on the comments, especially when they number in the thousands! Tags could prove useful, if you were looking for similar sites.

Del.icio.us could certainly prove useful in research in being able to save useful sites that can be accessed from any computer and finding potential other sites through other people's tags.

Week 5 #12

I subscribed to Library Elf and am adding it as a feed. I can see how the feed option can be another way of keeping up with library business. I can also see how it can be very helpful in other ways with patrons who have multiple cards from a single family or cards from different libraries.

Week 5 #11

I created a Library Thing account and added 5 books with tags. I did some exploring and will try to do more exploring later. I can see how this site can have several uses - it could be a way to keep up with books one has read (since it is a pretty common thing for people to forget) an informal reader's advisory service, and an informal book club of sorts. One drawback I did notice - when I searched under one of the tags for "nonfiction" with the Library Suggester, there were several books which were fiction titles. I guess this is to be expected as anyone can add tags.

Week 5 #10

I love the word "avatar"! Just the sound of the word brings to mind something "other worldly", something fantastical. Here I play it safe with a slimmer, younger me with an image taken from Meez.

iHCPL for me

Week 4 #9

Ok, this is really getting exciting! The method I think I liked the best was being able to take a favorite website and being able to add the feed from it - I took one from Yahoo. I'll start looking at websites differently now!

I also tried Topix and used it to get regular news from a smaller town.

I think it is great that we are getting suggestions of different websites to try - it gets me out of my "box".

Week 4 #8

Okay, along with subscribing to several feeds, I subscribed to Grace's blog feed (I think) - do I get extra points for that? As usual for the 23 things exercises, I found this exercise at first to be quite daunting, since it is totally new for me. I can see how subscribing to feeds may save some time if you spend a large chunk of time doing individual searches for these things. However, since the information from these feeds can be so alluring, I can see how someone might actually spend more time on the internet reading them!