Here a blog, there a blog, everywhere a blog, blog...

It's really been fun seeing all the 8N08 blogs come in. I've linked mine to quite a few, if anyone wants to have a look.

Now, to find time to work on the remaining four of 08. (Or should that be 4of8N08? Or perhaps 2nd4of8N08?)

I'll get to it--I swear. Just not this week. We are gearing up for SRC (Summer Reading Celebration--a very big deal in the library world) which means school visits. That is, I send library associates and librarians into the netherworlds of the schools to present what's happening at our library this summer and I mind the desk.

A fun, but busy, time.

Exercise 4 -- Play Day: Rollyo, Pandora, Webjunction, Reader's Advisory Online, and Image Generators

Can a person develop an addiction to image generators? I'm becoming a little concerned!

Although, the Reader's Advisory stuff isn't strictly Web 2.0, we're including it because some of the links and newsletters may be new to staff. I think they'll particularly enjoy Pandora and the image generators!

Even Punkers Do It!

Take a trip to Heaven.

Yup, it's from another image generator.

Fun with Exercise #4

Yesterday and today, I've been playing with some of the fun things we'll be doing for Exercise #4. I started with Rollyo--where you create your own search engine and decided it would be more useful to do on my laptop where I've saved favorites that I use more frequently. But, it's a neat tool.

Today, I've been trying to find some neat image generators (adding a blog that lists them to this blog under "Blogs of Interest"). Amongst the list were some name generators and I discovered that my roller derby name would be "Amber LiquidateHer." Wow! I feel so tough. I need to channel some of that name into my real personality! I also designed a "Clippy" as you can see.

Talking Tags

Finished the tagging exercise yesterday. Staff will explore tag clouds, how tags work, and how they might be used in the literary and library world. Rather than forcing them to sign up for yet another account somewhere like del.icio.us, I've given the option to just tag something on Amazon.

Mashups

Just added Mashups to Flickr Exercise. Hope you all have fun with them!