23 Things: #12

Thing 12 completed. Rolled my own search tool for movie reviews. A couple of downsides I see to this resource:

• searching on websites that one includes in a search tool still results in too many false drops
• Rollyo's insertion of sponsored links in the middle of search results is a little off-putting.

http://rollyo.com/library_dragon/movie_reviews/

23 Things: #11

Thing 11 completed. Cataloged two books on LibraryThing.
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/library_dragon

23 Things: #10

Thing 10 completed. Listened to Helene Blowers' podcast. Explored The Generator Blog, Letter James, and FD Toys. Wow! Too much fun! Noticed the Framer tool in FD Toys and given my casual interest in philatelics was immediately attracted to it and created this image. (Original photo posted to Flickr as part of completing these 23 Things.)

23 Things: #9

Thing 9 completed. Signed up for a Twitter account and entered my first message of fewer than 140 characters. Read the Twitter blog post, A Guide to Twitter in Libraries, which was helpful, particularly the links to library Twitter accounts.

23 Things: #8

Thing 8 completed. Added an RSS feed from Jenny Levine's Shifted Librarian blog and while I was at it, added a feed from a library-related blog not included on the list: Sarah Houghton-Jan's Librarian in Black.

23 Things: #7

Thing 7 completed quite some time ago. I created a Bloglines RSS feed with Library Journal when they began delivering computer-book reviews through this medium rather than including them in their print issues.

23 Things: #6

Thing 6 completed. Reviewed libraries listed by InfoPeople. The annotation for Denver Public Library, "It's a cool site, but try and find a link to them [podcast stories and interviews] on their homepage!" has me puzzled. I had no trouble finding the podcast page which is linked from DPL Downloads in the nav bar on the homepage.

23 Things: #5

Thing 5 completed. Read the webpage on Flickr mashups and third party sites. The book, Flickr Hacks, referenced on the page is in our library's collection. Yay for us!

23 Things: #4

Thing 4 completed. Seven images uploaded to Flickr. Six of these are quick-and-dirty scans of black-and-white photos I took back in the mid-eighties.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_dragon/

Lemme know whatcha think!

23 Things: #1-3

Thing 1:
Completed. See Aug 14 post.

Thing 2:
Completed. Sorta obvious since I'm posting to my blog! :-)

Thing 3:
Completed registering this blog this morning by e-mailing the URL to infopeeps@gmail.com.

TypePad, Amazon, and Blogger

TypePad has worked out an arrangement whereby its users are able to legally post images from Amazon to their blogs. Will Blogger do the same?

Participating in Infopeople's Our 23 Web 2.0 Things

I created this blog to participate in Infopeople's Our 23 Web 2.0 Things as required by the administration of the library where I work.

One message I took away from Helene Blowers' webcast was her emphasis on the need for administrators/managers to motivate staff to participate by providing adequate, even generous, incentives.

Whether this was heard by our managers, much less implemented, is, imho, highly debatable to put it kindly. From where I sit, anyway.