Thing #23

Well! This has definitely been a good experience for me. I think I was familiar enough with computers and the internet to not be lost with the Things, but I wasn't so familiar that I knew all of the Things covered. The biggest Thing I took away with me from this was the Bloglines one. I use that religiously at my house now, and it has saved me a lot of checking of each site I like to keep up on. Some places don't have RSS feeds yet, but it's getting there, so it's really useful. I've also gotten to add some feeds from sites I didn't previously check. Book review sites and the blog of an author I enjoy are a couple of those. This Learning 2.0 has also been helpful, I think, in my quest to be a librarian. I am aware now of how important it is to know about technology to be a library, and I'm inspired to perhaps minor in Computer Science, or at least take a few classes in that field. I would not have had enough motivation to search and figure these things out myself, so I'm glad I had this opportunity, even as just a page. I would definitely do this again if I could, but I'm unfortunately probably going to be gone before that happens. Oh well! It has been great.

Thing #22

Almost done! This thing I have experience with. Unfortunately, I have an iPod, so I bought the cheapest mp3 player I could find that was compatible. And now I'll be getting another one! I'm not sure what to do about that. Well, even though I had used the eAudiobooks, I hadn't used NetLibrary, so I still needed to make an account and everything. That was easy enough, though. I looked up a few things I want to read/listen to eventually, but wasn't able to find some things. I'm not sure what determines whether or not the books are up there, but I'm surprised the Harry Potter books aren't up there. I'm sure I'll be able to find things, though. Right now I'm listening to Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events while I exercise or when I drive to school sometimes. It's really nice not needing to switch cds, and mp3 players keep where you left off for some time. Very convenient!

Thing #21

Well! I liked what I've found with this thing. I knew this kind of thing was out there, but this has forced me to go look. I found a few podcasts that seem to review books or discuss books. Very nice. I will definitely go home and add these things to my bloglines list. That kind of thing about books would be great.. And I like how a lot of these things are free! That's the best. I wouldn't want to make one myself, but I will certainly enjoy what other people do.

Thing #20

Now YouTube is something I already knew about, for once. I think any teenager with access to the internet knows about YouTube. It's really useful. I've only uploaded something myself once, that I wanted to show a friend, but it made it possible. I can't e-mail someone a video of any sort of quality, so that was really handy.

As for how it could be used with libraries.. I'm not sure. Maybe a tour of the library for someone who hasn't come here and is looking online? Or even for someone who does come here, but doesn't quite understand the organization. I'm not sure.

So, this is a video I already knew about. Haha, it's just some silly thing someone made and then posted. I loved it, though, when I first saw it. Now sometimes when I think something is cool, and whoever I'm with has seen that video, I might exclaim, "Mathematical!" or "Rhombus!"

Thing #19

I, of course, zipped right to the book 2.0 tools. I found Reader, which is great. I registered. I wish I could read faster and be able to read more of these books I want to read.

So! Reader has all the things I like. I can add books, I can review books, I can look for books like what I like to read.. and so on. There's nothing to dislike about all that! Of course, it's not hugely popular yet, so some of my more obscure authors don't help me out. But that just takes time!

Thing #18

Wow! I had no idea these web-based applications were out there. Talk about handy! My laptop has WordPerfect, which I pretty much hate. I should try this instead. It's hard for me to see, at this point, the web-based replacing the desktop version. But maybe one day it will! Probably not too far away if it is going to happen.

There are really a lot of options available on that application. I was surprised. Basically everything you'd get in a desktop application is there. Anything I use anyway. That could be handy as well, if I'm writing something and switching between my latop and my desktop.. I wouldn't have to make sure it's in a shared folder and that the other computer is on. Nice!

Thing #17

I didn't realize you could have quite that much freedom with a wiki. I liked reading through the favorite books of many people.. I saw someone put down Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, which I've just started. Glad to see it's somebody's favorite! One of these days I will have to sit down and really explore these things. So little time these days, though!

Thing #16

I'm on a roll today!

I immediately went to the BookLoversWiki when I saw that on the list. Very nice. I looked through and found some books I like, or books I've wanted to check out, and saw what the reviews were. I really like it! I'll have to add that to my RSS feeds.

I'm not sure how things like that could be used within the library.. I suppose being able to have customer review type things, like Amazon, would be neat. Being able to get recommendations. Or see what other things people check out similar to what I'd be looking at. I'm usually looking at those things on Amazon anyway, as I look to see what the library has. It'd be nice to be able to have those resources on the library site.

Thing #15

In the article "Away from icebergs", the author mentions getting rid of the "just in case" collection. I'm not sure what he means by that exactly. All books? Or reference type books? If he meant reference type books, magazines, journals, and all that, I think I would be inclined to agree. When I do my research papers for college, I have been relying almost entirely upon the databases over print sources. When it comes to reading for pleasure, though, I want a book in my hand. I'm pretty sure there's technology out there for having books in some portable thing, but I don't have it, and I don't know if I would get it if there are books for free at the library where I don't need any technology. And I just like having actual books.

I liked all the second article was saying about librarians. Since I'm not a librarian yet, I don't really have the experience to disagree or not. But they all seem like good ideas. Especially about not latching onto anything that's new technology. New technology is definitely not always something very useful.

"To better bibliographic services" was a good article. I use those services a lot in college for my papers, and it is really frustrating sometimes trying to find what I want. It just overall sounds like some changes would simplify the databases a lot, and that would be very valuable to me.

Thing #14

Technorati is a very interesting tool! I don't know if I can keep track of all these tools. I need to be favoriting them at home, they're so handy.

Searching for Learning 2.0 in the blog directory seemed to be the most effective way to find the right things. At least, in this case. Searching for Learning 2.0 in blog posts got me nothing about it, but it did search for "learning" and "2.0" separately. I don't know if it works like google and putting quotes around the phrase would make it search for the two words together.

I've never heard of a few of the people that are in the most popular searches list. I was surprised to see Paris Hilton there. I thought she was old news by now, but maybe something has come out recently that I don't know about. 300 I wasn't surprised to see. I saw that myself while I was visiting my brother, and I really liked it.

Thing #12

Oops! I did this thing, but never posted my entry for it! So here I am a little late. I did a search engine that includes 3 art sites that I look at a lot. Art sites that let anyone submit their art of many different kinds. I search through these sometimes in search of drawings of particular things, so it'll be handy to search through them all at once.

Thing #13

I looked around on del.icio.us. Definitely seems like a good thing for me to start using. I have a laptop and a desktop computer, so having a site with all my bookmarks would be a smart idea. And I think it helps find more sites that you want through that search engine. I looked up "books" of course, ha, and found some good stuff. I think I'll have to set up an account sometime.

Thing #11

Well, like the RSS feeds, my mom has beaten me. She probably gets this stuff from her sister, though. Her sister is a librarian.

The listing of all my books doesn't appeal to me too much, but using this Library Thing to find books similar to what I like.. that appeals to me a lot. I love to read. I like this particular author named Dorothy Dunnett alot. No one's really heard of her, though. There ARE other people with the Lymond Chronicles in their libraries, though, so I'm definitely going to search through those and see what other books and authors those people like. I don't have enough time right now, but when I get home I'll be looking a lot. :)

My Library (or what I have so far)

Thing #10

I've run into a few of these name generators before, but I had no idea there were /so/ many different generators. I made a tin can label, as you can see. Now I have no problem with Christmas joy, before anyone thinks so. I love Christmas myself. But it was what I came up with! Nice. These things are handy.

Tin Can Label Generator

Thing #9

I was having difficulty in my search today. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, but I'm not sure what. I would like more feeds with book reviews, so I searched for "book reviews", but I'm not coming up with much that I want. I'm not sure how to find more like that, I'll have to experiment more. I tried the feedster search engine and the topix engine. I think I like the topix one a bit better. At least, it seemed to be giving me results that were closer to what I wanted, if not exactly what I wanted. I'll definitely have to keep searching and try to figure out how to better search for these things. Maybe I could just search on google and see what ones have RSS feeds.

Thing #8

Wow! A friend of mine had told me about RSS feeds before, but I didn't really listen.. now I wish I had! This is a really easy way to handle all those things. It's inspiring me to find more things to keep track of, since it'll be this easy to keep up with. My mom actually uses Bloglines, but I didn't know this is what it was. I thought it was some exclusively for keeping up with blogs from blogger, which was of no use to me. I'm very pleased to find out that I was wrong. I'll be using this!

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

Thing #7

So.. anything about technology. I don't really have much knowledge on that subject. I do use my computer at my house way too much for my own good, so I know how to use programs one uses at home. And, of course, because of school I'm familiar with Microsoft Word. I know I could use some more knowledge, though, which is why I decided to do this Learning 2.0. My aunt is a librarian and just this weekend was showing us some things on Google that we could use. She's a great librarian, so I hope I can gain that kind of knowledge and love it like she does. I look forward to learning more! And I think some curiosity has been awakened in me as well. I think I'm off to a good start for my library career.

Thing #6

I looked at the programs Flickr had listed and came across this one called retrievr. That was pretty neat! You sketch something out and it finds pictures that are similar. Sometimes I don't know how on earth I got certain pictures for what I drew, but other times it's really obvious and pretty neat. I'll keep that tool in mind! It seems like it could be really handy.

Link and Zelda

Link and Zelda
Originally uploaded by evil angela.

Well, I'm afraid to say I'm a video game geek, and for Christmas I got the new Zelda game, Twilight Princess. I've been playing it obsessively, so I can hopefully finish before college starts up again. So, when I thought about what to try to look up as interesting picture.. I decided I should look up "link zelda" and see what I got. Unsurprisingly, I got pictures of people dressed up as Link and Zelda. So there they are! Link is on the left, Zelda on the right. I would /never/ dress up like video game characters myself. That's a little scary. But I have to say, their costumes are really quite good! I'm impressed. If you're gonna do it, might as well do it right.