Del.icio.us

So, I was using the tags when I tried out Flikr and added tags to books on Librarything. I felt that I already understood these concepts and how to use them. But del.icio.us, seems to have a laserpoint focus on this. I found a lot more resources for a few more hard to locate sources for rarer media, like comic books, simply through tags. Very good, easy to use, and fun. I will probably continue to use my account when this project is done.

Rollyo

I created a searchroll for the Washington Capitals (you know, the hockey team {you know, the sport played with sticks on ice}). I can see the potential for this in researching something where there is a big potential of "distracting" information. For instance, since I used so many general sites in my searchroll as well as specific sites, searching for something as general as trades brought up all kinds of news and not just things pertaining to hockey. Whereas, searching for the Stanley Cup brought up all kinds of very current stories on the race for the cup, rather than a bunch of sites about the history of the cup. So, the more specific the better, I'd say

LibraryThing

Ok. My first thought about LibraryThing was, I have no idea what this is, but I like it. I have my account and have begun to add, but there are so many books (sounds of salavating). Will blog more as I figure more out...

Imagen

This is my test of the Alpha Pic. i like it a lot!!!!!

Thing 9- Finding Feeds

I tried out the same search on all of the search tools. I liked Topix best. I liked Syndic8 the least. The same search brought absolutely nothing on syndic8. And I was really looking. I find that for most of what I am looking for, adding an RSS feed is so simple that I really haven't needed to use any but the bloglines search for most of what I am seeking. I am not sure about confusing, but I didn't really "get" what syndic8 was trying to do for me. Whatever it was, it failed miserably. I am floored by the number of sites that I visit on a regular basis that have an RSS feed.

Bloglines

Well, to be honest I thought I knew a lot more about RSS feeds than I actually did. My bloglines account is up and running. I just need to link you to it...here. That should take you to my bloglines blog.

Grant Morrison

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Originally uploaded by amster_girl.

This is Grant Morrison. He is one of my heroes. Loudoun County Public Library owns one title by this extremely prolific comic book writer. It is JLA: One Million. Pretty cool futuristic stuff.

This photo came from Flickr.