RSS & Bloglines

Full disclosure here: I had set up a Bloglines account over a year ago but had pretty much abandoned it in favor of using Firefox's RSS feeds on the bookmark toolbar & putting them on MY Yahoo.

Good old Bloglines still had my account with my chosen feeds still feeding. I already read Librarian in Black regularly so I added Wired and TechCrunch which had been recommended in Helene Blowers' webcast. While I'm here let me recommend the feed for Knowledge at Wharton. It is business-focused, naturally, but also provides information on social policy and other issues. Good stuff to wrap your mind around

Libraries Using Web 2.0

Establishing a MySpace Account for the library would be a way to reach teens. They are on there anyways so setting up an account with links to the library catalog and databases would increase the chance that teens would actually use these services.

Flickr Mashups

Spell with Flickr
This is very easy to use. I tried adding these as java code to my blog on the side and the bottom but they were realy huge so I deleted them. The results remind me of something they used to show on either Sesame St. or the Electric Company back in the 70's

23 Things created from the Spell with Flickr mashup



Fuzzy Musings



Retrievr
Ok this was pretty easy to use. I entered the URL for the cat picture in my header. I'm not sure why I got pictures of trees, though. Are you supposed to be able to post the results somehow? This site doesn't have very robust help from what I can see.

Captioner
I liked this. Unlike anything else Flickr related it includes the "e" in its name. I did caption a photo, but it's for family & friends only so I can't show it here.

Flickr

I had a Flickr account before starting 23 things and had joined some groups as well as started one. I started a 2nd group with photos of events at our branch and invited the staff to join Flickr and view the photos.

Then I started to go a little overboard with Flickr. I posted photos for my blog header and profile (no, that's not me) and creating a Flickr badge for the sidebar. These were pretty easy to do and I learned a lot about both Flickr & Blogger.

23 Things - Here They Are

1. Viewed the archive of Helene Blowers webcast on May 19th, 2007.


2. Set up this blog, May 19th, 2007.


3. Sent blog URL to InfoPeople, May 28th, 2007.


4. Blogged about Flickr, May 28th, 2007 .


5. Blogged about Flickr Mashups, May 28th, 2007.


6. Blogged about library websites & using Web2.0, May 30, 2007.


7. Bloglines account already established, May 30, 2007.


8. Added Wired and Techcrunch to my feeds (already had Librarian in Black), May 30, 2007.


9. Twitter account has been established for a few months now - I guess that I need to learn what to do with it now. OK, I will, May 30, 2007. Blogged about Twitter.


10. Looked at image generators and added entry June 9, 2007.


11. Added entry on LibraryThing, June 9, 2007.


12. Added entry on Rollyo including a custom Rollyo Search, June 9, 2007.


13. del.icio.us account had already been established; added web 2.0 bookmarks, created a bundle for them; made blog entry including a feed for my del.icio.us subscriptions, June 9th.


14. Established Technorati account, did searching, made favorites, imported bloglines subscriptions, and really, really tried to figure it out. Added blog entry on June 11, 2007.


15. Blogged on Web 2.0 & the future of libraries, June 22, 2007.


16. Blogged on wikis adding links to my own and to a better explanation. June 11, 2007.


17. Made entry on InfoPeople wiki about del.icio.us. June 11, 2007.


18. Looked at Google Docs & Spreadsheets. Created a file in Docs that I published as a blog post. June 28, 2007.


19. Added entry on GoogleMaps, June 8, 2007.


20. Added YouTube entry, June 22, 2007.


21. Searched podcasts and added blog entry on them, July 10, 2007


22. Taught branch staff about Flickr and created a blog post for them to use for Flickr information, July 17, 2007. Created a blog post on learning Wikis for staff to use as a lesson. July 25, 2007.
23. Wrote the summary for my Web2.0 experience. August 25, 2007

First Post

I've created my blog to particpate in the InfoPeople's Our 23 Things Challenge http://our23things.infopeople.org and will be posting more as time goes by.