Thing 40 Mashups on the Web

I first tried http://tinyurl.com/clszf6 (Let Me Google that for You) with the search libraries in the twin cities. It's fun to watch it type the question.

I doubt I'd ever use lazylibrary.com but I could see students interest in it. The website did not pull up when I went to look at it.

Libworm would be interesting but I don't have the time to sift thru 1400+ RSS feeds.

I was going to try travlr but it required a download. Phreetings did not work. I used Bighugelabs previously and wanted something new. I'm not into the "perfect outfit".

Here's one that appears to work:
http://www.dapper.net/transform.php?dappName=TVOnMediaNewsFeedTVShowsOnDVDandmore&transformer=HTML&applyToUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.tvonmedia.com%2Fnewsfeed.xml

Or not.

Wheel of Lunch was fun to play. http://www.coverpop.com/wheeloflunch/

They can be fun to play with, but alot of them don't seem to work well.

Thing 39 Digital Storytelling

Well I'm not sure if this worked or not. it was lots of fun to play with. If it doesn't work here go to

http://www.scrapblog.com/331BAC9B-7F5C/0CEB181B-8290 to see it. Ok, I might try this for home but I really don't see myself using this at work. I work with Acquistions (Fiction & Spanish) and Reference. There just isn't much call for digital scraping answering reference questions or buying fiction.... It was fairly easy to use.

The website did not come up on the regular site, but the tutorial came up fine and I linked through it. I had to retype the account registration more than once. But it was fairly easy to use. I do use photo sites though personally from home alot and have been playing around with Broderbund's CD products for years.

Thing 38 Screencasting

Download a program onto a library computer? Are you joking. I looked at Jing and watched the flicks. Screen-o-matic says I have the wrong version of Java so forget that one. I also glanced at Screentoaster and decied to try Skitch. The tutorial worked and I didn't have to download a progam. Argh Skitch requires a download also. Goodbye Skitch. Hello Screentoaster.

Well this one has been loading for a couple minutes and nothing. It could be handy for the library for making tutorials, but who has time? I don't see using it much personally. I tried pulling it up on the desk. I gave up after 25 minutes of waiting for it to load. The other no-load website will not work on our computers because we have the wrong Java. So I am unable to do this thing. The tutorials were interesting and it looked fun even though it's not really practical for what I do.

Thing 37 Photo Tales

Ok pictures are always fun to play with and I could spend hours here. I however do not feel comfortable putting recognizable people pictures on an open blog, so I don't.

Check out the bottom of the blog for my collage from collagr.com I liked the way it looked. The photos are from various vacations of scenery I liked. I also created a guest book sign in at the bottom from Slide. I tried tiltshift but didn't care for the results.

I already have too many photo accounts online. I spend time with them when I am getting photos printed and edit them then. I don't work with photos at work. There are a ton of photo sites out there. I like this thing, but it it's more of a personal use than work thing for me.

Thing 36 Comic Relief-Generate Some Fun

The Help Desk By Gadfly

Carol's Dewey Decimal Section:
382 International commerce
Carol's birthday: 4/18/1964 = 418+1964 = 2382

Class:
300 Social Sciences

Contains:
Books on politics, economics, education and the law.

What it says about you:
You are good at understanding people and finding the systems that work for them. You like having established reasoning behind your decisions. You consider it very important for your friends to always have your back.

Find your Dewey Decimal Section at Spacefem.com

My name via dewey.

While the image generators are lots of fun. The biggest use I've found for them is eating large amounts of time. Maybe someday I'll use them, but I'm not heavily envolved with graphics at my library. I don't have that much time in my personal life to do much with them.

I've tried various generators and gadgets when I wanted certain things. None stood out so much that I'd mention them specifically.

Thing 35 Books 2 0

I read the articles. I had just read in Hotline some of the information on reading increasing earlier today. They were interesting.

I've tried some of the sites in the Learn section. I used to be into cataloging my books, years ago. I quit. I have a 2 year old. Who has time for it? I just don't have the time energy or interest to go to alot of these sites. Some are already bookmarked at our library and I use those for Reader's Advisory. I also use some that are not listed. Personally I love "Sop You're Killing Me" for looking for mystery series.

I already have the book feature on my Facebook account. I do try and keep that up, since I don't always remember titles or authors perfectly and I can log in to check what was that title with "Mother Lake" in it again?

I don't have a problem with reading on the Net. I do it myself. It's sort of like those who look down on people who read the penny dreadfuls or today's equivilant. I figure almost any reading is an improvement over none.

Sorry if I go to the trouble of purchasing a book, I'm not going to release it into the wild. I'm going to read it, keep it or donate it.

Thing 34 Is This Our Competition--Online Answer Sites

I loved this quote:
"Web 2.0 is good not because it makes the library more
like the Web, but because it is making the Web more like the
library. By my calculation, we are on Library 4.0 (see sidebar
on this page), so the Web has a way to go to equal the
services of the library. However, libraries have been around
for millennia, and the Web for fifteen years, so it will catch
up quickly." That Thing You Do (from RUSQ)

The link to David Lee King did not work.

Appeal of online answer sites is the ability to be annonymous to a large extent. ALso you can ask the questions 24/7. I've looked at sites and tried a few out over the years. Questions range. I do agree with the statement that you get what you pay for in some cases.

Some people don't like libraries. Some people are more comfortable with computers.

Looked at the Slam Boards. No, I did not participate. If that's what you're into go for it. I get enough questions at the refernce desk to keep me busy.

No I did not answer questions on the boards. See above on Slam Boards.