tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38867859589345780822024-03-05T14:47:56.564-08:00librarians unite!It's mighty blue in here, innit?maybedaisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860612010742620167noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3886785958934578082.post-5473527196427984982007-04-27T17:45:00.000-07:002007-04-27T17:42:50.300-07:00email testI'm sending this post via email. Will it work? Will it?maybedaisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860612010742620167noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3886785958934578082.post-33230448735362658692007-04-02T17:15:00.000-07:002007-04-02T17:25:05.992-07:00Thing ThirteenAds! I can't take all the ads. I hate clicking on a link that claims it's taking me somewhere, but actually it's taking me to an ad page that I have to view before getting to the content I want. Not to quote the Google party line, but their ads really are unobtrusive. <br /><br />Once I got past that, I enjoyed the article I clicked on from the SJLibraryLearning2 account on Del.icio.us. It's about the joys of tagging, which in my youth meant spray-painting your gang name on other people's garage doors. Now it means an informal, user-based indexing, and I'm all in favor. I'm pleased to see museums agree. <br /><br />I played around with bookmarking this way, and no, I don't see it as something that would be useful in my life. It's cool, but it would work better for people with zillions of bookmarks or who don't have a primary computer. The bookmarks/favorites menus in my browsers on work and home computers work well enough for me.maybedaisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860612010742620167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3886785958934578082.post-51772535064809037252007-03-30T16:22:00.000-07:002007-03-30T16:25:51.927-07:00Thing TwelveI made a search roll for three sites I search often: Snopes, Wikipedia, and Onelook. The search worked and that's pretty cool, but I didn't like all of the ads that popped up before my search results. Also, the results were in a seemingly random order, and I wasn't given the option to reorder them. Again, I just don't think anything can improve on Google, at least for my own personal searches. I know how to manipulate a Google search to find the results I want. This just seems like an unnecessary addition to my life.maybedaisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860612010742620167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3886785958934578082.post-13989132194355109102007-03-30T16:07:00.000-07:002007-03-30T16:17:37.870-07:00Thing ElevenOoh, fun. I picked Coverpop from the Books category. I can't say it's useful at all, but it is durn fun. Pick a category, like, say, purses, and the screen is filled with tiny purses in a million colors and styles. Hovering over or clicking on a purse will take you to the online store at which you can purchase it. Very cool. I liked <a href="http://www.coverpop.com/pop/flickr_colorfields/">the Flickr colorfields</a> coverpop best because it covered a variety of photographed objects instead of just one category.maybedaisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860612010742620167noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3886785958934578082.post-3528181460879061922007-03-30T15:51:00.000-07:002007-03-30T16:07:15.591-07:00Thing TenFrom the Visual Poetry Generator:<br /><a href="http://www.imagechef.com/ic/poem/" target="_blank"> <img src="http://img1.imagechef.com/w/070330/sampe8ee1ab69010afdd.gif" alt="Make Visual Poetry - ImageChef.com"/> </a><br /><br /><br />From the Nerd Name Generator:<br /><b>My nerd name is Griselda, the Java Magician.</b> Whatever that means.<br /><br />These tools were easy and fun. Not much to comment on.maybedaisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860612010742620167noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3886785958934578082.post-36981060400602494362007-03-30T14:22:00.000-07:002007-03-30T15:50:48.000-07:00Thing NineI couldn't hear the podcast; it was stuck on "loading," and refreshing didn't help.<br /><br />I played with Technorati and Feedster. Technorati was up first. I found it difficult and confusing. I wanted blogs and news feeds, but separate searches for common terms turned up only pictures and videos. When I finally found a blog I wanted to read, it was totally unclear how to add a feed to that. I added it to my "favorites," but that doesn't help, because I probably won't be going back to Technorati. <br /><br />Feedster was even worse. Narrowing my search to blogs only doesn't work; I still get product listings, etc. I'm totally disgruntled by these sites. I can't say I understand their use, either; I thought they were going to find feeds that I could add to my bloglines account or to a new account on Feedster or Technorati. Instead, they search for blog *posts*, not blogs, and I'm afraid I don't see how even their intended use could be better than Google.maybedaisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860612010742620167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3886785958934578082.post-54233818406061218802007-03-29T17:35:00.000-07:002007-03-29T17:47:57.351-07:00Thing EightThis was fun. I subscribed to thirteen feeds:<br /><br />Accidental Hedonist<br />Bloglines | News<br />Dictionary.com Word of the Day<br />DogReader<br />The Lazy Vegetarian<br />Librarians' Internet Index: New This Week<br />NASA Breaking News<br />New Urban Legends<br />NYT Book Review<br />PETA Latest News<br />Salon<br />The Shifted Librarian<br />Vegan Blog: The (Eco) Logical Blog<br /><br />I made <a href="http://www.bloglines.com/public/daisyporter">my blogroll</a> public.<br />Then I added feeds to Angie's and Mana's blogs as well as my own (why not?), and to Unshelved, Library 2.0, and the Merc-News police blotter. Sadly, I couldn't subscribe to Readers' Club because, according to bloglines, that site doesn't publish a feed.<br /><br />I enjoyed this exercise. I confess I didn't really know what RSS was. I knew it was a reader that could consolidate all of your daily info in one place, but I didn't really get it and I never bothered practicing. Now I shall. Instead of having bookmarks I click on daily, I will use an RSS feed. I may even have one for home and one for work. YEAH.maybedaisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860612010742620167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3886785958934578082.post-50089207451687061792007-03-29T17:10:00.000-07:002007-03-29T17:35:38.889-07:00Thing SevenYesss, it's freeform writing day. <br /><br />I've been playing around with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org">Wikipedia</a> quite a bit. My feelings are mixed, like yours may be as well. On the one hand, I consult Wikipedia all the time when I want a description or history of something or someone, or when I want more than just a dictionary definition, or when I want to see how something fits into a big picture. On the other hand, when I was fact-checking children's nonfiction, I couldn't rely on Wikipedia as a definitive source. I still used it, but checked their sources, when they were given, so I could cite a, you know, <i>real</i> source.<br /><br />I've played around only a little bit with editing in Wikipedia. I fiddled with a couple of pages about various libraries. I didn't really have the patience or focus to stick with one article and argue with other posters about the finer points of it.<br /><br />To fulfill my comment requirement, I insulted Angie on her blog.maybedaisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860612010742620167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3886785958934578082.post-81105604326960189572007-03-29T16:52:00.000-07:002007-03-29T17:09:22.680-07:00Thing SixI made a trading card. My pic is kind of blurry, but perhaps that denotes my mental state.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3GI-AmclsH_ubNLYBw8D_UVkcv3ucfEutwjQ9hkX6-OWOom4jzkb8VrAPG_2hqCHrTzF1d3jKqx0Igp89R-co_2fZDX3wvZzO0-bH7PiB5mevedFhgcrr8-ApbHzWn97RTnx8egvca5A/s1600-h/tradingcard..jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3GI-AmclsH_ubNLYBw8D_UVkcv3ucfEutwjQ9hkX6-OWOom4jzkb8VrAPG_2hqCHrTzF1d3jKqx0Igp89R-co_2fZDX3wvZzO0-bH7PiB5mevedFhgcrr8-ApbHzWn97RTnx8egvca5A/s320/tradingcard..jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5047502891468787234" /></a>maybedaisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860612010742620167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3886785958934578082.post-3069358385807235132007-03-11T20:05:00.001-07:002007-03-29T16:52:42.121-07:00Thing FiveI found one of gothmom's Flickr photos by using the Learning 2.0 tag:<br /><br /><style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style><div class="flickr-frame"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gothmom/328501325/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/139/328501325_85c1520688.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gothmom/328501325/">banner2</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/gothmom/">Gothmom</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"><br />which I love because the caption says, "Some art the kids did last year for Week of the Young Child," but I actually made the "art" in the shot. I have since received this work of "art" back from King and have proudly displayed it in the staff room here at EK.</p><br /><br />I also created a Flickr account and uploaded a picture of myself in a lavender wig at Mardi Gras 2006, but apparently there's some kind of minimum picture upload as well as an approval process before my photos become public. Thus, I cannot link to it here. It's charming, though, I assure you.maybedaisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860612010742620167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3886785958934578082.post-58223501781408184952007-01-13T20:10:00.001-08:002007-01-13T20:10:56.551-08:00Thing FourDone and done. Are all the Things going to be this easy?maybedaisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860612010742620167noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3886785958934578082.post-64631982166533754022007-01-13T20:08:00.000-08:002007-01-13T20:10:14.663-08:00Thing ThreeDone. Voilà!<br /><br />Handy link I used to get the accent over the "a" above: <a href="http://www.starr.net/is/type/htmlcodes.html">Keyboard Help: International Accent Marks and Diacriticals</a>.maybedaisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860612010742620167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3886785958934578082.post-9180926606927102012007-01-13T19:50:00.000-08:002007-01-13T20:06:37.812-08:00Thing Two7 1/2 habits of lifelong learners....why the 1/2? Just to be cute?<br /><br />The easiest of these habits for me is having confidence in myself as a competent learner. Learning has always been easy for me, and I know it, so #4 is already true for me.<br /><br />The hardest one is going to be #3, viewing problems as challenges. It frustrates me to have a problem I'm not sure I can solve. I'm okay with the kinds of problems that I know have a solution that's within my reach -- an algebra problem, say, or an upset library customer -- but with more mechanical things, I'm not sure I have the capability to figure it out. Hey, I guess this is related to my easy habit.maybedaisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860612010742620167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3886785958934578082.post-45516549440008059632007-01-13T19:48:00.000-08:002007-01-13T19:50:01.046-08:00Thing OneI bet I'm not the only one to be thinking, "Thing One and Thing Two? Are we trapped in <i>The Cat in the Hat</i>?"<br /><br />Lovely podcast. I was trying to figure out whose voice that was, and I never thought of it being Mary.maybedaisyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07860612010742620167noreply@blogger.com0