Mmmm...Del.icio.us

I DO THIS TOO! YAY!!

Okay. So, yes. Del.icio.us can be a useful tool. You can potentially find useful things in that other people have tagged. BUT--I am really suspicious of letting just anybody create tags for pieces of information. It's all well and good, until you're poking through clips on YouTube, for example. I have seen cases where people really want their own clips viewed, and so they pack the tag field with all kinds of tags that have nothing to do with their videos. Now, I understand that such things probably offend me more deeply than they do normal people. But that is EXACTLY the kind of thing that will PLUNGE the world into darkness and bring on the apocalypse.

Rollyo: Now All I Can Think About Are Rollo Candies

Hmm, I didn't really like Rollyo that much. I thought that the results were really redundant; Google is pretty good at minimizing that. I know, for example, that some of the sites I put in have scads of information on the search terms I entered. I don't need returns to every single mention. And, those sites dominated the search returns, so in the end, I didn't get anything helpful out of it.

All the same, here's my link. Yes, I reinvented the wheel, but I already had a bunch of these sources bookmarked. I can report that I'm pretty hooked on RSS feeds now though.

Goodreads is Goodreadiness!

Okay, this was an EASY one! 'Cause I already HAD a Goodreads! My friend Suzanne, who went to library school under my influence (isn't that awesome? I should get a merit badge! Or maybe go to jail. But she seems happy!), introduced me to it! Now, even though we live many states apart, I can still feel inferior to the amount she reads and knits all while have twice the amount of kids I do.

Goodreads is, in this way, very helpful! If a little damaging in the self esteem department. It is, though, really cool to be able to keep up with Suzanne like this. Some people write nice little traditional reviews of the books they read, which is great, but since there are so many of those types, I just tend to bang out a couple of sentences based purely on the book's raw emotional value for me. Don't expect much, is what I'm saying.

The Goodreads widgets sure are nifty doohickeys! See the sidebar!

Lesson the Tenth: Image Generators!

Sorry, Didi: the answer to the "Cake and Companion Cube" question is that it's from the truly wonderful game, Portal. If you like puzzle games, and you do not own this, it is really a steal at something like ten bucks.


For this one, I made the trading card:

And also, I'm sorry it's been so long since I posted. I didn't mean to get so dang busy. I'm gonna try to sprint my way to the end of the 23 Things before the end of the month. Wish me luck.

Explor the Ar Es Es

Well, I did kinda answer these questions in the last post. But, I will say that I have NO PROBLEM finding RSS feeds. The landscape is littered with them. The potential for RSS overload is enormous.

So, I'm about to start organizing things into folders in my Google Reader. Mmm...GoogleCake. And as I said before, I am likely to keep a-calling on my favorite innernet nooks in person, so to speak, but RSS seems like a bang up way to get a companion cube's weight in professional news and information from those less personal-like sites. At least until the crazy-busy or crazy-lazy sets in and I decide that everything on the innernets must now come to me 'cause I am to bizzy-important-lazy to go to it. Which, you know, is not totally out of the question.


BONUS ROUND: Who, amongst the maybe one or two people who might be casually wandering by 'cause I am really sure that nobody reads this anymore, got the cake-and-companion-cube reference?

AR ES ES

Soooo...how does a pirate keep up with newsfeeds? ARRRRRRRRRSS.


Ha-HA!!


A-heh.


I don't think anyone is reading this anymore.



I haven't been really keen to try RSS. I guess I'm not really all that savvy, or maybe I'm just a Reluctant Adapter. I suppose that's it. I like visiting everyone's little corner of cyberspace. It's fun. But, you know, I'm willing to give RSS a try--especially as there's more for me to read, and it's more pro stuff. It is a little harder to remember to hit pro sites all the time, and it is more convenient to have that information--if only because there is so much more of it--all in one place, baked together and fresh. Like a cake. A professional librarian cake. A profresh libcake.

Mmmm...RSS feeds...

I think once I have my...DATAPAD [my iGo or whatever]...RSS feeds will be just as normal a part of my routine as checking my email and deleting the spam. While I might cling to visiting the actual blog sites of the blogs of enjoy--because I think of it as a little visit, and I find it humanizing, I guess, in the big digital scheme of things--I do see RSS as uber helpful when it comes to all that professional information, and as INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS, dang if we don't generate kind of a lot of it. That really makes RSS pretty sweet. Sweet RSS cake. And unlike some cake, that cake is not a lie.

I'm going to go hug my companion cube now.

Technology Luv

Here's my technology related post:

KINDLE KINDLE KINDLE KINDLE KIII*DROOOOOOOL*


I...kinda want one.

But, more to the point I guess, things like the Kindle--and I think in the nearish future we'll have Kindle-looking personal computer type things that access wireless networks and display books and so on and so forth and generally operate just like what they call in the Star Wars books "datapads" and said things--heck we might call them "datapads" but that sounds nerdy so probably it will be something more like...I don't know, but Apple's version will be called the "iGo" (SHOUTOUT)--will keep us pretty hyperconnected to all the things we can now consider "print" (that which we read). (Okay, sentence over. Take a breath.) If we are lucky, our phones will not have been directly implanted into our brains by then.

If we are that lucky, and we are not taking calls a la Ghost in the Shell, then I think we will see a push toward having "disconnect" time. At least, I hope we will. There should (IhopeIhopeIhope) be a rising school of thought that attaches real value to quiet time, time devoted to face to face interaction and division between work time and home time (as more people telecommute).

Or, you know, we're all just going to get those brain implants.