Quest 8 Social Networking

I was familiar with social networking because of young people, including my son, that use MySpace, Xanga or Facebook. It was interesting to see the list of other social networking websites. Some are very exclusive! You join by invitation only. In searching the sites, I found out that most filter content and restrict who can view the profiles. It is amazing what people would share publicly!

Quest 7 Flickr

I choose Option A because I was not interested in opening another account. Too many passwords to remember. If I need to do it for professional reasons, I know I can. The tutorial was very helpful. Of course the pictures about libraries piqued my interest. The first one I saw looked nothing like a library. It is the interior of the Toronto Public Reference Library. WOW - a four-story structure that houses just the reference department! I would love to see a picture of the children's area. The link is:http://www.flickr.com/photos/tokyoaaron/1594873061/. The other pictures by this guy were also interesting.

Quest 6 Technorati

It has been a long time since I last blogged. Like most things, I have to schedule the time. Anyway, when I first did the Technorati advance search,I forgot to put the "" around the words library 2.0. and I put it in the wrong section. Of course, I pulled up thousands of sites that had nothing to do with "Library 2.0". When I did it correctly,the tag search produced more results, but the authority given was less. It was comforting to recognize Michael Stephens' blog, TametheWeb and the blog,the Shifted Librarian.

Quest 6 Delicious

At first I didn't understand anything because the link to the video didn't work. I tried doing the discovery exercises and pulled them up, but was clueless to what I was supposed to do. I even created an account but didn't know where to go from there. Most of the tools assumed you understood what bookmarking is. I didn't and had to go back and experiment with that. Then someone added a link that did work. It all became clear. I clicked on the account created for the exercise and this time understood. I clicked a tag that 51 people had saved. It listed CCPL as using Pluggo for IM. I saved this to my account to see if the number would change. IT DID!! Now I will experiment with moving my Yahoo bookmarks to Delicious.

ImageChef

The image finally showed up. I had to save it to My pictures first. I am sure that is not always necessary because the instructions did not say that. Anyway, it worked!

Quest 5

Although we didn't have to comment on this quest, I wanted to say that I enjoyed exploring these sites. I had not heard of most of them. Some were informative and some just plain fun! I was happy to find out about Pandora.com. Palmetto Biz Buzz was somewhat of a disappointment. I thought I could find information about a particular restuarant I was thinking about visiting. However, if the business owner doesn't write a review, you get the same info that you can find in the phone book. I am trying to add a picture from ImageChef,but I keeping getting an error message. I will work on this.

RSS 2

While waiting for the next quest, I have enjoyed using my feeds on bloglines. It is great to have sites you regularly use all in one place. I experimented with Goggle Reader and have some feeds there as well. I really like this!!