Week 6: #14 Getting not-so-technical with Technorati

I added tage "Technorati" to this post to make them accessible through Technorati search. Of course, it didn't show up when I search for "Technorati". Then I found out that I need to "Ping" it manually so that it will be indexed properly. I will worry about that later. Also, "Label" a post only means that it will be picked up when do a search in www.blogspot.com.

Tag: [Technorati]

Week 5: #11 A Thing about Library Thing

This is the result from Customize comic strips. Check it out!

Week 5: #12 The "Library" Elf will remind you

If you check out books a lot from mutiple libraries, you will be happy to have Elf to help you to keep track of things like when holds are ready, what books are about to expire without logging in to each account.


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Week 4: RSS & Newsreaders

I created a Bloglines account and subscribed to 3 feeds. First two -CNN.com and Librarians' Internet Index: New This Week - were pretty easy to subscrib. Then I used Blogline's search engine to find the 3rd one - Library Journal News .

Week 7: Wikis

• Learn about wikis and discover some innovative ways that libraries are using them.

A wiki is a collaborative website and authoring tool that allows users to easily add, remove and edit content.

Create a blog post about anything technology related that interests you this week.

Week 6: #13 Tagging makes the web 2.0 world go round

Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking manager which allows you to bookmark a web page and add tags to categorize your bookmarks.

Us.ef.ul was very helpful when I try to figure out how to use Del.icio.us. It is definitely an easy way to create bookmarks that can be accessed anywhere. Need to play with it a little more to use it as a tool to build an expansive knowledge network.

Week 3: Photos & Images

I created an account in Flickr and upload a photo into it. Photo editing tools such as Pixer , Snipshot and Picnik are fun to play with. I was using Pixer to edit my not-so-clear picture and it turned out pretty nice. Take a look below:
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Week 5: #10 Play around with Image Generators

Created an account in LibraryThing and added a bunch of books to my library.

So glad to learn that there are so many tools to building an avatar. Try FDToys , Avatars from Yahoo!, Customize Choose and Meez. I had problems to create an account in Meez though.
Here is an avatar I created using using Yahoo Avatars.