RSS, RSS, RSS!

I signed up for Google Reader, added 6 subscriptions to my reader and created 2 folders: one called Librarianship and the other Nature. One I stumbled upon was Skills for the 21st Century librarian. This turns out to be a blog by Meredith Farkas, the author of Social software in libraries which is in our Professional Collection (see PROF 025.524 FAR.)

http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php

As for Google Reader, I'm not too crazy about the layout. All that blue and white is a bit much, the light grey text is not easy to read, and I find the screen overcrowded. That is reason enough for me to not use this service.

I can see why people would use RSS readers, though, as all their favourites would be easy to access in one place, and they would always have the lastest info at their fingertips. For now, I prefer to bookmark sites I like to visit frequently and go in that way, rather than use a reader.

Common Craft

Love these commoncraft.com youtube videos. Getting ready to subscribe to google.com/reader...

Today's wildlife photo

Couldn't resist this one. I wonder what he is thinking...

Flickr cont.

Still exploring flickr. Found this seastars image - has creative commons, which means I can post it here. Photo taken by gordmckenna. As for web apps, have a look at Zumyn - a neat way to create mosaic photos

Flickr fun

Played with some web apps - color fields and bubbir. Tried a screen capture, but didn't have any luck. Pulled in a copyright free flower photo instead. Having fun takes time!

Photo from Flickr by cjchmiel

Downloaded this cutie, then signed up for flikr and posted a group photo I took with the library digital camera

Adding an image to a blog entry

This was easier than expected - a nice pink and red sunset. I'll include the image here as well. Also added a word document to the staff blog - my rhubarb recipe. YUM!!!

Playground no. 3 staff blog

Whew! Eventually I got this to work and my link to the shared notes file appeared. A tip: make sure you leave a space between the A and HREF at the beginning of path, by putting them on two separate lines. The HREF=" comes right before the file and :// Clear as mud?!?

Here is one of my favourite monuments in Helsinki, Finland - The Sibelius monument

We visited this monument in June of 1997, on a quick trip to Sweden and Finland.

My dog

I have an American Eskimo dog named Sasha, who is 14 1/2 years old.