Technorati Week 6 #14--Feeling too plugged in

Technorati is cool, but a little freaky to me. Fist off, I looked up my own bloc which had like a four millionth something rating and that made me sad. I wanted to be at least in the first one million. Then I was nobodies favorite site, so I called my husband and my sister and told them to make me a favorit so I can feel more loved and special. Then I saw that there was a full copy if my whole blog up there. Maybe I am being a little possessive, but its my blog and I really dont want it displayed this way on technorati. Not that it is private or holds great screcrest. I just found this to be irritating. Then I looked at the popular blogs where I found several about paris hilton. OMG!!!!! so many people with so much time and nothing better to do. Then I looked at the WTF (which I know to stand for something else than 'wheres the fire')...Users should not send messages to thier mothers that include WTF...apparently this has several meaning. Anyway. There were insane blogs about things I dont care anything about, such as a blog about people with extra breasts. I mean really..... So if you are trying to look up somthing or find someone it is cool, but its not for me.

Week 6 #13---Del.icio.us

This is the coolest thing ever. I am going to use this and spread the word. My bookmarks are always so disorganized, but this way I can keep them organized and with me at every computer I use. I love it. Also I can see what other people are tagging and how they are used. This is really a supercool tool! I am soo excited!!!

Week 5 #12 in week 6 or is it 7

I am sorry that I am getting behind. It is the busy season at the refdesk here at cy-fair. I tried out the library elf. I think it is really cool, but not for me personally. However, I will recommend it to patrons who are not as familiar with the library system. Of course I work in the library. I know how to check my accounts and chances are all of my overdues are in my office or my car and I can run out to get them when I need to. I can see how a busy mom with several kids and several library accounts could benefit from this service. I will start to tell them about it.

Week 5 #11 Library Thing and Readers Advisory

How cool is this!?!?!?! We can talk about books and read reviews and swap them as well as rate them ourselves. What a great addition to reader's advisory!!! I think I will send this link to my book club members. I want to know who rated 'where the wild things are' with 1/2 a star. I could not find where to go to see who rated what and how. Does anybody know about that?

Week 5 #10 generators

Ok I guess I did get the bighugelabs from FD toys. I love playing with this kind of stuff. I tried MEEZ for an avatar. It was fun, but it really slowed my computer down. I made some cartoons and now I am going to make a 'for dummies' book cover. I really find this usable. We get students of all ages in my library who have assignments to create a comic strip about the war of 1812 or something similar, to create a book cover describing the book they have to do a report on and other such assignments. The teachers rarely tell them about these sites. Now I feel like I have a big secret too to help them with this part of their assignments. It seems that the more programs that are out there that allow us to give 'pretty' presentations, the prettier the teachers require them to be. I am very glad I could learn about these tools. As for the rss feed, I have thought about it for a while and my feelings have not changed much. I feel like I am constantly in the face of information overload and the rss feeds only provide a faster way for us to become even more overloaded.

Health Alert

My creation
Originally uploaded by r_botkin2000

This has nothing to do with the assignments, I just thought I would share.. bighugelabs.com is the coolest thing ever. This is what happens when 2 three year old boys lock themselves in the bathroom together. I always to know to take the camera with me when I hear giggles behind a closed door. It is a good thing that our house is for sale and we have to keep everything spic and span clean until it sells. Aren't boys charming?!?!?!?!?!

Week 4 #2

I tried it. I think today is not a good day. I played with bloglines for a while, but then I tried to post my blogroll and I guess I already forgot my log-in. So I will have to try this again tomorrow. I did play with the tools. More later!

Week #4 in Week #5

You know, that work thing kind of got in my way and I just didnt get to my ihcpl assignments...Silly job!

So I registed for bloglines today and played with it for a while. I can see why it is useful for some and I am glad to know it now, but right now I am feeling a little too plugged in and for today, it is not my cup of tea. However, there was a time when I belonged to several yahoo groups and kept up with several blogs. I would have loved this then. When I was adopting my youngest son the group I was with lived all over the world and we became very good friends over several yahoo groups, we go to know each other through blogs and rarely did we communicate by phone much less in person. We are now still all friends but the messages are more individually lined up. So Maybe one day I will feel like this is necessary to me, just not today.