Regarding Thing 12

I had trouble getting this to work for me. I tried to set up a search tool for travel to South Africa. It never actually functioned, and after several tries I thought to myself that in this time I could have done a traditional Google or Ask or AltaVista search with satisfactory results. Perhaps the appalling sluggishness of the pcs here has something to do with my poor result. I get the idea, though.

Regarding Thing 11

Library Thing has real potential to help with my increasingly unreliable middle-aged memory for titles. I thought so a couple of years ago when we learned about it at an RA training. I set up a Thing then, as a post-assignment, but it has disappeared because of my neglect of it. So, clearly there's a question: can I establish a routine of listing the titles I've read and want to remember? Rather than standing in the stacks scratching my head in frustration, I can turn to my Library Thing. The tags are a quick and dirty kind of "read alike" subject assistance.

This has been a rather plodding and uninspired post. Distracted by the first snowfall??

Regarding Thing 10

Before now I knew zilch about image generators. Seriously. And here's one for which I've got to find a mouse picture:
http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/publishing/graphics/READ_Mini_Posters.cfm

Regarding Thing 9

• For a sense of camaraderie and "it could always be worse," there's http://feelgoodlibrarian.typepad.com/
• It's nice to check in on LC, too. It's a different world: http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/page/2/
• And I like the New This Week rss from Librarian's Internet Index: http://www.lii.org/pub/news/211
• And now for something completely different (as in Irreverant, Rude and Crude), but serves a need):http://community.livejournal.com/library_mofo
• And here's one I just happened upon while scanning today's Salon.com. Of particular interest and use to YA fans :http://gwendabond.typepad.com/bondgirl/

Regarding Thing 8

I've heard that Bloglines is easy. I'm not finding it to be so. I'm not certain that it is a match for my style of information gathering. I'm coming up with too many glitches. I'll come back to it, but for now I've gone well past the 45 minutes.

Regarding Thing 7

My iPod Touch is the technology that interests me just now. I use it alot (and haven't put any music on it yet, and I've had it since August!), in fact I use it so much for games and internet that I'm developing a repetitive motion problem in my thumbs and index fingers. Seriously. It would appear that like so much else in life, there are side effects and pitfalls that will demand that we summon forth good old self restraint. Over the next eon of human evolution (if we still have a planet) will our hands morph into something more iPod accommodating? I'd better stop now....my fingers are starting to tingle again. Seriously!!

Regarding Week 3; Things 5 & 6

45 minutes per Thing is not enough. I was mesmerized by the terror alert map linked from the Wikipedia article on mashups. But I get it: mashups are a technical cut and paste. I think the farthest I'll get with it myself is to come back and make a mosaic on Flickr. I hadn't thought of Flickr as having a use for us, but it has possibilities. What we need is TIME!!

Regarding Week 2; Things 3 and 4.

Hmmm. The slideshow has some very pedestrian aspects. I am totally on board with the concept that we are learning when we aren't even aware of it. The "learning contract ," to my mind, contradicts this very idea. The tracking log is contract enough for me.

Regarding Week 1; Things 1 & 2

Not really much to comment upon; looks to have possibilities.

Victory

As you can see, I successfully imported a jpeg for my header. I did it at home on my iMac, and it worked like a charm. Booooo, Windows. Coming soon, a post about the next Thing on the list, and perhaps an explanation of my blog title.

Getting started; setting up training blog

Everyone says this is so easy. Hah! In days to come I hope I will have mastered importing jpegs.
But that's it for now.