Week 5: Things 11&12

I think both LibraryThing and Rollyo are really interesting and useful tools. I used LibraryThing to catalog all the books I'm reading for Great Books. I liked that it also told you how many other people were reading that book; I can definitely see which books are going to be the most popular, if they aren't already. I also enjoyed reading the tags other people put on the books, as well as their personal reviews and insights. I think that if I had a large collection of texts, LibraryThing would be a very useful tool in organizing that collection.

Rollyo is a search engine that searches other search engines, but only the ones you WANT it to search. I liked that you could personalize your options, for example if you were looking for an apple pie recipe, you could narrow your responses to those within cooking related search engines. I probably would have used this alot while in college. I'm not sure it would replace "Google," as I'm somewhat conditioned to resort to "Google" initially, but i definitely think I could try this more often now that I know about it. It's also pretty cool that they don't make you sign up before you can use the service.

Week 5: Thing 10

Thing 10 has been the most fun so far...I mean, I felt guilty having so much fun creating this thing while I was working. So here is my Meez...I think she's hysterical.

Week 4: Things 8 & 9, RSS Feeds

Okay, so after many weeks of neglect, I have returned to the world of "23 Things." While everyone else is on week seven, I am going strong with week four. Okay, go me! :)

Alright, so this week, bloglines and RSS feeds. Swell! To tell the truth, I already had a bloglines account which I opened back when I worked for LexisNexis. But most of the subscriptions I had in there would be of little to no use to me anymore. So this activity afforded me the opportunity to delete many subscriptions to government agencies which no longer matter to me. This however, does not satisfy the requirements of the tasks set forth in things eight and nine. SO.....I added some subscriptions to Overduemedia, The Laughing Librarian, Librarians' Internet Index, Librarian in Black, and of course, MERLIN as suggested in thing nine.

Wow! So week four has come and gone....moving on to week five....look at me go!