Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Well, I just explored Delicious (Thing 13, I think), watched the podcast, and signed up for it. I watched Obama's acceptance speech since it was one of the more popular tags at the moment on the Delicious list (and since I didn't stay up for the speech last night).

I also found a bookmark of interest to my daughter Alex and emailed it to her.

Should be a helpful bookmarking tool -- and, quite frankly, I've never bookmarked much before because I don't get on the Internet much here at work (except for my bank account and SamePage), but I plan to use it more now. I have in the past saved the American Library Journals (on line versions) because there are articles of interest I want to keep -- but it would be much more efficient to just tag those articles and not save the whole on line magazine in a folder, so I will start doing that, I think.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Okay, I've been trying to catch up so I tried to subscribe to Bloglines, but it won't let me (won't send me the validation email, although I've asked for it several times). I have, however, subscribed to The Generator Blog and I've played around with the "fun" stuff, like Letter James, FD toys, Wordle. . .I really liked Wordle. . .I used the library curse (for those who steal books) and turned it into a Wordle.

My daughter is a photographer and has been talking about creating a photo album on line with the pictures she took of Uruguay last January, and with the on line image generators, you can really create some neat stuff. If I were at home, I would spend more time playing around with the photos on my laptop. I think I might create a calendar with my pix for someone for Christmas.

I set up an accounty with LibraryThing -- haven't had time to add much to it yet, but I'm hoping this will help keep me organized about the various mystery authors who are my favorites and their various series about the same detective, that I liked to read in order.

And I also set up an account in Rollyo, although I'm not sure how much I'll use it -- I only have a few websites that I use consistently.

But I think the real problem is that there is far too much out there -- the mind boggles! And I can truly see how people can get hooked into playing with this stuff and never get anything done! It's nice to know the tools are there -- but the next step has to be how to manage those tools and not get either "overwhelmed" or end up spending all your free time on the computer! No wonder the obesity problem in this world is growing -- get away from the screen and exercise!!!!