Week 5, Thing 12: Roll your own search tool with Rollyo

For your puppetry information searching pleasure I give you...

Select...Puppetry ResourcesSearch The Web

This rollyo thing not only has a clever name, but could be a pretty handy tool for commonly repeated searches. I might not go looking for someone else's rollyo, and I can't imagine that my rollyo will come in handy for too many others, but I'd definitely use one that I created for myself. (And I did.) I was very pleased with the search results!

This might be an interesting idea for assignment alerts....

Week 5, Thing 11: Take a look at Library Thing and catalog some of your favorite books

Here's s my librarything.



For a while I've been keeping my reading journal
as a blog at www.whatkatereads.blogspot.com

Librarything combines the things I was already doing on my blog, with the ability to share that information. Neat!

Week 5, Thing 10: Play around with an online image generator.

THES WAS DA BST THNG 3VER

FIRST!!111!1! I MAED A BUTON


TH3N!1111!1 OMG I MAED A NEON SIGN


THAN!11!1!!! THARES MAH SILY WOK
http://www.sillywalksgenerator.com/index.html?walkID=10391

AND!!!!11! LOL U FIND MAH AVATAR AT TEH AT THEN END OF MAH BLOG ARCHIEV

AEWSOME!!1!1!1!1

(This post generated from the "English-to-12-Year-Old-AOLer-Translator".)

Week 4, Thing 9: Explore MERLIN and then locate a few other useful library-related blogs and/or news feeds

Added to my feedreader:
Merlin
Teen Reads
BoingBoing

Again...overwhelming amounts of information! However, it's good to know the resources are there if I need them. Technorati was my favorite site to use. Searching was simple. Plus, all of the suggested options were well organized. In the brief searching I did, I seemed to have more success stumbling across neat stuff than actively searching for it.

Week 4, Thing 8: Make Life Really Simple with RSS and a News Reader

So, here it is:
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/06131744492810276521?hl=en

I used google reader instead of bloglines. I'd just like to keep as much of this in the same account as I can. Of course...I suppose when the revolution comes, I'll wish I had diversified.

Okay, so I love the idea of RSS! I love that it comes to me and I don't need to go looking for it. However, it is one extra place I need to check each day, and I have to admit I feel simply overwhelmed with incoming information these days. I have trouble keeping up with my snail mail...much less my e-mail...much less my RSS feeds.... But I suppose it's good to have the how-to knowledge, just in case I ever find the extra time to read all of this stuff!