Week 7: #17 Blog About Technology

A couple of months ago, one of the librarians at Cy-Fair and I were talking about cataloging. Thanks to Internet technology, cataloging takes much less time. As with the Wikis, the text is mutable.

Another wonderful thing about the Internet is being able to pay bills online. This enables me to make payments without worrying about standard mail. I really like being able to do this.

Week 6: #14 Getting not-so-technical with Technorati

Internet users create blogs and post to them every second. Well, how can I find a blog about Brownie Scout troop activities? With the help of the exhaustive Technorati, I can do searches of strictly blogs. Also, with Technorati, I can find popular blogs and topics. Using the advanced search feature, I have numerous ways to discover all sorts of blogs.

Using the exact phrase search option on the term "Learning 2.0," nearly 500 results were returned. Over 300 of these postings were on blogs! Looking at popular blogs, I found some talking about earning money. Of course, I was not very surprised by that! I liked looking through the popular videos as well. It was cool when I found the Bon Jovi one.

Week 4: #8 Keep it Really Simple - RSS Feeds

So much to read and so little time. . . this may be the life of the library professional. However, no one should feel put upon to go to many addresses in cyberspace to access the latest posting on their friend's blog or the most current draft pick. There are Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. An RSS feed is an address that grows and changes with the web content of its page. Even better, all these RSS feeds can be saved to one spot. Bloglines is an aggregate or collector of RSS feeds. Users can subscribe to RSS feeds and view the most recent blog postings in one spot. This is like shopping at Super Walmart instead of visiting various stores in that it's one stop shopping. While users must open an account with Bloglines, it is a free service.

I signed up for a Bloglines account and have subscribed to over 50 feeds. This is an attempt for me to keep up with what is going on in the news to my friends and other people participating in iHCPL. I have provided the Bloglines link as well as links to the blogs of other iHCPL participants.

Week 2: #3 My blog

Using Blogger, I grabbed myself a blog. As I understand it, a blog is like a web notebook. I can fill the pages of the notebook with anything I please. For Brownie Points, I anticipate making entries about my progress in iHCPL and Brownie events that I have planned for Fall 2007.