week five; thing 12: rollyo

Rollyo.com is an interesting alternative to google searching. You can customize your searches so that you gather infomation from the sites you choose, and you can search using other peoples' collection of websites from which to search.

week five; thing 11: librarything

I definitely like librarything! This is what I have been looking for---it's just what I need to keep track of books I read, what I think about them, books I want to read, old favorites, and I can even share all this info with other fabulous readers. Librarything is like a home library and a book club all-in-one ... online!
Link to my librarything: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/lpowell

week five; thing 10: online image generator

Ta-da! I made an avatar! This took some time for me, and I tried a few different sites, yahoo avatar, for one, but I liked meez better because the options were more interesting. I also played around with webfetti and made some really fun word pictures in glitter and other shapes, but had trouble posting my creations. Mayber another time it will come together. I sent my husband all kinds of messages using generated photos, from tatoos on backs to words in a cup of coffee. That was really fun.

~just a friendly reminder!

week four; thing 9: merlin and library-related blogs/ newsfeeds

I got lost in social networking on the merlin site and ended up with a myspace account!

here.

As for blogs and newsfeeds, I had fun searching topics on feedster ( and still do in my spare time.) I subscribed to a couple news feeds as well as the pla blog...so I think I stand a good chance of spending more time blogging!

week four; thing 8: rss feeds and setup bloglines account

Well, well, well. This was an interesting assignment. Setting up a bloglines account was somewhat of a deja-vous experience...just seemed like something that had been done before. (I am glad I'm keeping an ongoing list of usernames and passwords in a notebook!)
Anyway, I set up several feeds on my newsreader account...including a few other md23things blogs...and several "newsy" feeds and I have one library related feed. I discovered a cool website: feedster ---and found out you can do search to find out what other people are saying (via blogs) about a topic.

week three; thing 7: technology

Pogue iPhone TWiT
Originally uploaded by insidetwit

I have been reading about the iphone... about to debut on Friday. (check out this link for acu-info: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/) Anyway, as I was saying, the iphone has captured my attention partly because it is new and partly because it can do so many things!
Apparently, people have been waiting for this new technology like others once waited for Alexander Graham Bell to invent the telephone. And, who knows how our world will now change? The iphone can do it all. You can talk on the phone, play music and/or videos, and browse the web! Neat-o!

week three; thing 6: flickr fun, mashups & 3rd party sites

This was totally new for me. Flickr itself was new...I didn't even know what a mashup was before, much less play with it a bit, and the third-party-site thing is still unclear to me. What is it? Is it the same as a mashup, or different and in what way? I like the mashup concept and get it by thinking of the resee peanut-butter cup metaphor (your chocolate on my peanut butter!)

By way of discovery, I tried to create a calendar using photos saved on my computer. (the key word being "tried.") When I had trouble uploading the images, I scrapped the calendar idea in favor of creating a mosaic. I signed in, attempted an upload, and then the screen changed...there it was...my new mosaic with a thin black line for a frame. It was totally white! I scrolled down hoping to find an image...NONE. At that point a small caption appeared at the bottom of my "white canvas." It read, "and you thought you were not creative." That created a few good laughs around here!