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RSS – like my initals, only not
I’ve always wanted to try RSS. “Always” of course meaning “for the few months I’ve known what the heck it was.” So now I have no excuse and must power forward!
Ran into a little problem when I had to choose “my library” off the ccclib website. I don’t have a library. So I chose Adult Literacy. Thought I’d show PSC some love. But then PSC didn’t have any events to feed. So I don’t have anything to talk about. Not being a part of a library makes this difficult, man. Both last week’s blog prompt and this weeks!?
But I can answer the other two! YES this helped me understand RSS better. The format is a little funky though; I wish things were laid out better on the left hand menu. I do think this is one site I will continue to use after the 10 weeks are over though.
Yay for learning new things.
Meebo
I absolutely hate thinking up screen names. Generally, I like to think of myself as being a fairly creative person. But when it comes to handles, my creativity falls quite short. I’m just no good at it! I can’t think of some clever little combination of words and numbers no longer than 14 characters that doesn’t sound absolutely stupid or that I don’t end up hating two days later.
That being said, I do seem to have several IM accounts spread out all over the place. Being able to combine my AIM, MSN, and Yahoo accounts about 4 years ago would have been awesome. Was Meebo available back then? These days though, IMing doesn’t really seem to be where it’s at anymore. At least with my friends – there are still plenty of people out there in the world that are addicted. A few of my friends use G-Chat, which is nice. And of course Facebook chat. But none of us seem to really be “into” the whole chatting craze anymore.
If by some miracle I was able to resurrect the addiction, I would definitely point my friends the Meebo way. It’s qutie handy.
Do I haveto add meebo as a widget? Is it a requirement? Am I being difficult?
Ok, so libraries could use meebo/chats as a way to communicate about materials etc. without having to pick up the phone. You know, you’re on the reference desk and want to check if another location has an item and you just click on that library’s sn and voila you’re chatting and finding the answer in much quicker time that picking up the phone, dialing the number, letting it ring, waiting for someone to pick up….
del.icio.us
I wonder how the creators of delicious came up with that name. And then, how did they decide that they wanted to break the word up? And then, how did they decide they wanted to break it up in THAT way? Am I missing something painfully obvious here? Is there some sort of joke or pun or something in “del-icio-us?” hmm, yeah… I’m not seeing it.
Searching on delicious is certainly easy enough. I wonder how the search results are sorted. I find it interesting that they aren’t displayed by the number of people who actually saved that link, as you might expect (as that would indicate the popularity and possibly relevance of the search). But I’m sure there are much more complex designs at work here.
I searched for “Italy” first. Too many overwhelming search results. So I tried “archeology” next and found this interesting site: http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/ (well, interesting if you’re a nerd like me).
I realize that delicious isn’t supposed to be used as a search engine, but many of the websites I have bookmarked at work, I have no desire to access at home. And can’t, for many of them (intranet and VPN access etc.). Which is a good thing, I think. So maybe I’ll play around at home a little more. It could certainly be helpful for when I go over to a friend’s house and want to show them that awesome site I’ve just discovered about mapping Egypt. O yes.
