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.