Random Post - Unattended Children in the Library

Not part of the list of "thingies" for us to do..

From the librarian in black blog, comes this link to
a post on unattended children in the library.

I found it interesting, and thought
others might also find the article thought provoking.

Unattended Children in the Library

Thingy 10 - Image Generators & Sloganizer!

Well, the image generators are cool. Do you like
my captioned Emperor? LOL.

I also liked this very cool free web site called "Sloganizer"
found at www.sloganizer.net

It creates free slogans for you
based on any key words you give it.

Useful, in our line of work, eh?

Thingy 9 - Exploring RSS Feeds & news aggregator tools

Okay, I think I did 8 & 9 together in the last post,
as I managed to insert feeds into this here blog.

OTH, I didn't truely go out and explore the RSS feed
tools. Now that I have? I think I like the whole idea
of putting a blog scraper (searching for keyword specific
content in sites w/out RSS feeds) tools on my blog, to
search for library related content. :)

Bear with me, because I'm going to try to do so.
(Oh the joys of getting something you aren't really
sure of to work!).

While scraping is controversial because you are
taking content and posting without explicit permission -
I believe that content posted on the web, unless specifically
copyrighted, is basically free for useage such as a personal,
non-profit oriented blog. Which basically, this is.

Sounds strage coming from a librarian, but I think the
argument, with a few "riders" attached to modify it
is basically sound. After all, these blogs are basically
personal diaries, and not many people put them up with
the intent to make profit. Rather, the intent is to *share* their
insights, creations, etc.

Okay, enough blathering.

Feedity (link to follow) a free
tool that generates web feeds... I put in the google
web site address, and the feeds tool gave me a link
which turns out to be in XML..

code which I can't insert, since this blog
thinks it's improperly written HTML, LOL!!

Well, you guys go and check out
feedity and see if you can view the code..
it is on the whole pretty interesting...

Try entering LCPL's main library page...

Feedity

Thingy 8 - RSS Feeds, Bloglines & all that jazz

Okay, read it, heard it, ready to try it!

http://www.bloglines.com/public/CatsMeow

That's my public Blogline account!

As to the rest, I had to jigger around a bit,
but I managed to embed the RSS Feeds into my blog -

check under the sailing photo - and yes, there they are!

Thingy 7 - a post about technology

Hum.. a post about technology. Very vauge guidance that...

Anyhoo... since it was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show
what about Apple's move to the iphone? and of course, Apple TV...

Here's the pertainent linkage.. although if you google it, you will
get plenty of news articles.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/

What do you think the effects of this will be? I see they've restricted
it to the Cingular phone service (the iphone that is) and I wonder about that.
some folks don't like Cingular's service. Are they going to lock the phones
down, so that they *only* work on Cingular's service networks??

Personally, not being a digital toy person, I don't see the effects of this
as being drastic, although, if they could get it to really work... well.
Then we'd be wired 24/7.

What's next? Plugging into the brain?

(Actually that probably *is* where we're headed...)

Flickr - Thingy 6

Okay I am now *behind* LOL! Onto thingy 6.

May I add a comment here?

I feel this information is coming too fast and too rapidly.

I could spend ALOT more time on Flickr, but to keep up
with the speed of the posts, I can't do as much exploring
as I'd like. I feel like I'm on a *forced march* and not
moving at a pace I'm comfortable with.

In the future I suggest that we do this in a "non time limited" manner - that is we
allow folks to move at a pace they are comfortable with, to maximize
the learning opportunity. Otherwise, I think we will find many
folks demoralized, dropping out, or tuning out. I know it works
that way for me when I feel too stressed to learn....

Okay, that said... thingy 6 ... Flickr tools. Below is
a link to webmonkey which had/has a great article on the top
10 rated Flickr tools. I found it very interesting:

http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/06/08/index4a.html

My favorite tool of all those was the one that let you caption
pictures! I know, I know ..purely an entertainment tool. However,
one that adds another layer of enjoyment/information to a picture.

So, my tool of choice - it's called "Captioner" and is
created by someone named "shady dentist" (no, really it is, LOL!)

http://shadydentist.com/captioner/

I am going to try to caption my Flickr picture of the
"Lovecats" LOL! But that's for later. For now, I'm
going to go have a bit of fun on Flickr...

Cheers!

Flickr - Thingy 5 - "Hey, you missed a beat!" - Did NOT!!

Well, Flickr is fun! Here's my link:

http://tinyurl.com/y3ffqo

(I used tinyurl.com to make
the Flickr link small... try using
it sometime, makes life much
easier when posting loooong
URL addresses...)

So give that link a click and
check out the Flickr
picture! It comes with lyrics...
(yes, lyrics!!)

Anyway... off to work now. More playing and editing
this post as I get futher into Flickr (ie set up account
and start my own posting, LOL...)

Happy New Year in 2007!

To all, my wishes for a very happy New Year,
and hopes that 2007 will bring us all we
hope and wish for!