Week 6, Thing 14

I love Technorati. It's a great place to find blogs about things I'm interested in. Often, I wind up finding the most interesting things. When I searched Learning 2.0, I found 23 things blogs from all over!

Week 6, Thing 13

I had heard a lot about del.icio.us, but I'd never used it before, so I created an account. I think it's really neat to be able to use my bookmarks on any computer. I imported all my bookmarks from my home and work computers, and now I'm going through them and editing the tags and sharing them and stuff. As a research tool, I think it's only as good as what a lot of people tag. I mean, I guess I can see potential for that use, but I don't see that as becoming a widespread application of the service. I think the tags and shared bookmarks will definitely be used more for the "Hey! check out this video of a cat that can flush a toilet!" set. For myself, I think it's great to be able to bookmark things and access them from anywhere. More than once, I've been on someone else's computer and wished I had my bookmarks.

Week 5, Thing 12

Here's the link to my searchroll: link

I wasn't particularly impressed by this. I didn't like the search results page. I think I wanted it to look more like the search results you'd find at the individual sites, where you can manipulate the results, look at them in different orders, etc. I don't know, I just don't see myself ever using it.

Week 5, Thing 11

Here's the link to my librarything catalog: link

Amy showed me this sight a while back. It's a pretty neat thing. It'll take me forever to catalog all my books, though.

Week 5, Thing 10

So, my new header came from here. That was fun to play with.

Wouldn't you love to see some tough ex-con with this ink? Play here.



Create your own Scratch Ticket


This was fun. Create your own Ben and Jerry's flavor.


Awww! Make your own hearts here!

How cute would this be for a poster for our Friday Night Live series? I got it here.


And wouldn't these be neat for advertising informational programs? Make yours here.


This would look cool on a movie night poster. Play here.


Alright. I think I'm done for now.

Week 4, Thing 9

I like Technorati for finding feeds. Also, there's a feature on Google Reader where you can choose a type of feed and it will automatically subscribe to a bunch in that genre, then you can go through and read them and choose which ones you want to keep. It's a really nice feature. I've found some really excellent feeds using that. Of course, there have also been some real clunkers in there too. It saves a lot of search time, though.