Week 6 # 13

I watched the tutorial and dived into del.icio.us. I looked around at the iHCPL account and could see even more of the avatar sites that I didn't explore earlier. I went on and opened my own account and worked with the instructions to add the bookmarklets to my tool bar. I tried the download first and of course, that didn't work. So I then went through adding them as links to my favorites.

I added several knitting sites to my account. These are for recreational use. I then did try several searches as if I were addressing a reference question. I am not sure how useful this would be at the ref desk because you are still coming up with a list of websites that you need to evaluate for authority not just how many people are linked to it. However, it is great to have one more tool to use when you are delving into the Internet for research.

Week 5 # 12

This exercise was very easy to accomplish. I entered all my family's cards and will look forward to being reminded about the grandchildren's due dates.

This only thing I kind of wondered about was having a third party company being able to go into the HCPL site and get information. Is this something to worry about?

Week 5 # 11 Library Thing

I put a few books on my blog from Library Thing. I will be adding more to my list.

Week 5 # 10

I made myself a little Meez cheerleader for my Discovery exercise. Cute huh!

Cheers

Week 4 Exercise # 9 Searching for feeds

I explored Technorati but found it a bit confusing. Feedster seemed more straightforward. I created a widget with John Edwards feeds but haven't put it on my blog as yet. I did a search on politics and added Huffington Post to my blogline feeds. I looked over Topix but did not want to get involved with any of the forums.

As another way of finding feeds I did a simple Google search on liberal political news and found several feeds to choose from.

I guess you can surmise from my searches that I am one of those liberal, progressive, Texas Democratic types. Why yes I am and proud to be so!

Week 4 Discovery Activity #8

This first exercise was easy for me because I have had a bloglines account for a couple of years now. I did add the 10 news feeds to the ones I already had and I subscribed to about four of the iHCPL blogs.