Librarian social networking at Ning.com

Now I have found a really neat place to meet librarians and others interested in Library 2.0. It's a social network on www.ning.com. It just takes a few minutes to sign up and create a profile, the other people are really cordial, and are from all over the country and world. Bill Drew started it. Check out my profile under "Barbrarian."

Editing practice

MySpace image generator

Since I already have a MySpace profile, I think I will play around with the image generator feature of it, and report back. People have fun doing things like adding things to photos that weren't really there, such as a hat the person was not actually wearing. Think Michael Jackson morph video.
On to Rollyo. I've been wondering what that was, and now I'm finding out. From their website:

Rollyo is the fast, easy way to create personal search engines using only the sources you trust.
Are you tired of wading though thousands of irrelevant search results to get to the information you want? Ever wish you could narrow your search to sites you already know and trust? With Rollyo, you can easily create your own custom search engines - we call them Searchrolls - and explore, save, and personalize those created by others.

Cooltext

You may have noticed by now that I am not doing all 23 things in sequential order. That is partly because I have tried some of them before, and partly because I think the sequence is somewhat random, anyway. Right now I just made a new logo at Cooltext.com, and image generator that I have tried before and like. Let me see if I can insert the image right into my blog here. Well, I see I was able to insert the image, but not the exact spot intended, and am not sure why it copied seven times! But I did figure out how to edit that.

LibraryThing.com

Back in July, while I was working with genealogy materials on the third floor, I discovered LibraryThing, which lets you catalog your own personal collection, (up to 200 items) free. Since my personal book collection is way too unorganized and I'm way too lazy to organize it in even a vaguely library-like way, I gave LibraryThing a try with some of the uncatalogued items I came across on the third floor. Everything wasn't listed, but a surprising amount of items were, and it is easy to use. Here's the link:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php
In case it won't let you in, the user name and password are both "isgen".

R.S.S. (Real Simple Syndication)

The other day I got around to setting up an R.S.S. feed at Bloglines.com. It really is a convenient way to keep track of your favorite websites quickly; they are all right there in front of you at once. A little disappointed to find that a few comics I like don't have R.S.S. feeds yet, but guess I can still read them in the paper. Some of my choices are: Shifted Librarian, Wired, i-tunes top 25, and Slashdot. Will need to spend a little more time knowing today's top 25 i-tunes, a little embarrassed that I haven't even heard of most of them (but at least I've heard of the musicians.)