Wikis-September 12

I've been on a very long vacation....

Anyone who ever read the "The Professor and the Madman" would have to agree that there has always been a future for Wikis. After all the Oxford English Dictionary began as a cooperative effort to bring all the words of the English language into one book. That is what modern day wikis do for us. Everyone gets to submit, everyone gets to disbute the submissions, corrections are made and a body of knowledge takes form. Bravo for us!

I took a moment to view Library Success which clearly is in the process of beomming and the Princeton Public Library which is overwhelming.

Library Thing

August 21, 2008

I'm back and this is my very short library thing. Frankly I was hoping that if I entered all the books in my private library then they would sort them all for me and arrrange them on my shelves. Alas I must do this myself
this is library thing link

August 3, 2007

After hours of trying to make this avatar look like bettyboop, I end up with this vaguely latin looking skinny waisted salsa dancer.

What I enjoyed about this exercise was remembering playing paper dolls when I was a child.

August 1, 2007

Well I just spent the last two hours making possible characters on SitePal. It was a lot of fun and we all sort of laughed and giggled our way through it. My guess is that I will not be helping too many customers create a sitepal at bcpl, but if I ever need to use a webpage to sell something on line...it would be pretty darn cute.

I like the newsfeeds and perhaps if my email providers did not do similiar things for me, I would use them more. Now I just worry about them building up in my Bloglines and not being read.

Someone out there is making me pay attention.....fie!

So, tag you're it!

Rules are: list 8 facts or habits about yourself. Post the rules of the game at the beginning before the facts are listed. At the end tag 8 people by posting their names and lave comments on their blogs

So let's see, my library career is almost over, but I started at the top and have slowly worked my way down. It has been fun at all stages and I love having the perspective that I do. My biggest passion now, after my husband, is my grandchildren who are pretty darn cute if I do say so myself. Nowadays I spend my time working, thinking about knitting (but not necessarily doing any knitting) reading cookbooks, but not necessarily cooking and learning to navigate downtown Baltimore. I almost never go to the movies and hardly watch them at home. I would rather play solitare on the computer than watch TV.

Is that eight?

Rss feeds

So I spent the afternoon on RSS feeds.

After I got over the idea that these"feeds" were supposed to show up in my blog...sort like a news stream or a ticker tape at the top of my blog, I did a lot better. So I now have a blogline that includes some of their suggest materials (not so good) plus the weather from the Baltimore Sun and headlines from CNN, recent columns from my very favorite medical writer Dr. Gupta and anything else that I can find in the next three hours that I will be working! How about these http://www.bloglines.com/public/betsyboop

Back from vacation

All right, I'm back in mind and spirit and ready to start again!