Delicious

Being a boomer, don't expect me to remember where to place the periods in Delicious.....

I can see where delicious is a great asset for public service librarians but so far I am not enthusiastic about this product. Maybe I need to try this on my home computer where my bookmark list is getting out of hand.....

Why do other SAPL bloggers like delicious?

Create search engines

Creating your very own search engine with Rollyo is easy -here's a Photography roll.

This boomer's head is spinning - thanks for giving us the opportunity to learn these 23 things.....

Playing around

I had a lot of fun with Generator - here is a slide show of some of my water lily photos:

fd Flickr's toys is another fun site - used Framer to create a postage stamp of Central Library

These image generators are easy to use and can get very addictive....

New York Times Archives

As you can tell, today is my day to catch up on the 23 Things.....

A post on the Swiss Army Librarian blog caught my attention:

On Google News, you can search the archive of the New York Times - click on the. News Archives Search link. I did a search on Beethoven (his birthday was December 16) and was amazed at the number of free articles from the 1800's that appeared. When I did a search on Van Cliburn, all of these articles cost $3.95.

Click on news archives for more information.

RSS is simple

In my old position as Automation Manager, I read blogs and listed them in my IE favories and visited each site individually - some of my favorites were Jenny Levine's The Shifted Librarian, Karen Schneider's Free Range Librarian, and others. I learned about the RSS newsreader, Bloglines, from Karen Schneider's blog, and signed up immediately. It was (and is) such a timesaver to go to one place to read the new entries, email interesting articles, save articles to the Clipping folder, and to add/delete blogs.

For 23 Things, I created a GoogleReader account but Bloglines is still my newsreader of choice - something about teaching old dogs new tricks......

Recognized on Flickr

What a pleasant surprise.....one of my photos on Flickr was chosen to be included in the Schmap Washington DC Sixth Edition guide. Before the Innovative Users Group conference started, my husband and I spent one afternoon doing the memorial walking tour. Schmap selected a photo from the FDR memorial....... Did you know that there is a George Mason memorial? I loved the relaxed pose.

Click on Schmap guides to get more information.....

Thing #7 Blog about technology

When my husband and I went cell phone shopping, I surprised my husband by wanting a phone with a keyboard for texting and using the Internet. So far, I sent text messages to my children but they reminded me that most people respond to text messages faster than 2 days or more.

My husband said that I wouldn't use all of the bells and whistles on this phone. So far he is right - don't tell him this....