Week 5 #10

The searchroll I created on rollyo

http://www.rollyo.com/malu31/travel_sites/

It is intersting to learn about all these technologies. Rollyo helps to have all the websites together for people who use them regularly. For me, I am used to going into the sites straight and don't find that a problem.As with all new things, we have to get used to this one too I guess.


Created a LibraryThing account. Found it interesting, but don't think it will be of much use to me. As I work in the library, I have got used to getting all the books I need from here.So am not buying much books at the moment, and so there is no need to catalogue them.

My library thing catalogue can be found under http://www.librarything.com/catalog/malu31






















From Animated wave generator. it's fun.

I had real fun doing this exercise.The image generators are cool, and I will be coming back to this to try out more of them. At present I cannot think of any use for this, but who knows, tomorrow this may be the one thing that will help me with something.

Week 4

I used Feedster to find blogs by gardening enthusiasts. Found a few like '52 weeks in the california garden' and 'gardening club covent garden'. The search also brought up items like 'Bon Jovi and band announce world tour' and 'affordable dentures'!!! The search must have brought up any blog with the word 'garden' in it! Technorati also looked for individual words and brought up lots of unrelated blogs. Do they expect us to do boolean searching???

I found topix.net useful in finding newsfeeds.

I had used the Google blog search before, so I tried that to find something library related, and I found a 'flipfloplibrarian's weblog' on - Library 2.0 and web 2.0 a heathen's thoughts.He says "Life is all about change. We must grow and learn and improve. So what others call “library 2.0,” I call another step in the evolution of the library".


I had heard about RSS feeds, but never got to explore what it was. So it was a good discovery exercise and setting up Bloglines and RSS feeds was much simpler than I had anticipated. It is good to have all the links to our favourite sites together and getting rid of the advertisements is a bonus.I dislike the pop up ads especially.

http://www.bloglines.com/public/USERNAME

Libraries can have RSS feeds to good reading sites from their websites.

Week 3

Technology has advanced quite fast in the last ten years and it is becoming hard to keep up. Certain advancements like skype are very useful, especially when people move to different parts of the world. It is a great technology to keep in touch with friends and relatives. I have not got it at my place, but I have used it at my friend's place and know how cool it is.





Photo framer

flickr billboard

I have a bit of my garden in my blog through Flickr. The garden is my little haven and am planning to spend some time in there this summer.

Social networking

Have been busy with my final project for MLIS for the last few weeks. Now that is almost over and am back on track .

Had a look at the different social networking sites. I think I am too old to be in Bebo , but liked Myspace and Facebook. In Myspace, anyone can log on and go into anyone's profile.So there is not much of a privacy there! Or maybe that is how people make friends these days! who knows! I created a Facebook account and I like the fact that people have to be invited to be friends. I got in touch with a friend from India through Facebook which was great.

Had fun doing the social networking.