Number 12--Del.icio.us

Today's assignment interests me a lot--and I want to look at this more. I forgot that I had set up a Del.icio.us account a year of so ago--but the computer didn't! When I went to the 27 things site, it "remembered" me. I never had time to add bookmarks to it, so I forgot all about it. I'm very intrigued by this delicious thing, especially as a reference librarian.

Right now, I'm trying to figure out a way to add all of the bookmarks I have in IE to Del.icio.us. Matt has been trying to help me, but we haven't figured it out yet. We know that you can import bookmarks, but mine are all in folders (and subfolders), so I can't figure out a way to import them all at once. There may not be a way to do that. If anyone knows how, let me know.

I'll definately use Del.icio.us as a reference tool. Great site!

Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine Social Networks

I've read most of the sites and discussions about MySpace ( and MyFace), and I don't really have anything against libraries having a presence on these sites, but I'm not sure it's going to make a big impact on libraries--or it's users. Fine with me to have a KCLS MySpace page ( but who decides what our favorite movies and bands are?) On a personal note, I feel REALLY OLD when I look through most of the listings on MySpace.

My mom, Dina, has a page and she has 1173 friends! Here's what she lists as her general interests: The simple pleasures... my adopted daughter Phoebe, Cabo, Daewoo Leganzas (nice!), Talbot's, island life, guys on crutches, stopping to smell the little things. donky kong.

#8, finding feeds

Well, this exercise was fairly interesting, and I liked being able to search blogs. Found a lot of stuff in Seattle goings-on that I didn't know about. So I subscribed to some library feeds (like Research Buzz, and Librarian's Index to the Internet). But the one I like best (I think I got it from Feedster) is the Rufus Wainwright feed.

SO MAYBE NEXT TIME HE COMES TO PERFORM AT THE TRIPLE DOOR (IF HE EVER DOES AGAIN) I WILL KNOW IN ADVANCE, SO THE SHOW WON'T BE SOLD OUT BY THE TIME I GET AROUND TO BUYING TICKETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thing number 7, RSS

Well, I set up a bloglines account and subscribed to Sean's Blog and some others, like Boing Boing. I thought I would be able to subscribe to Michael Musto's column in the Village Voice, but I didn't get that option. I had to subscribe to the "New York Life" newsfeed, which includes Musto's column. Here's a picture of Michael Musto (from somebody's Flickr site). He reveiwed my mom's show last year, when she appeared in New York. He RAVED about her!

MASHUPS Exercise

Here's a trading card I created for myself. Don't ask what this means--I don't know. I was just thinking of the name game song when I created it.

For those who aren't familiar with my mom, here's a recent stage photo. She's quite unforgettable, don't you think? She does her own makeup, by the way

Flickr site assignment

This week's assignment involved creating a Flickr site and posting a photo from it to my blog. I already had a Flickr site set up, so I just added one of my photos with the "kcls27things" tag, and then posted it to this blog. I have a free Flickr site, which has a limit of 200 photos. One of these days, my mom will give me $25 to have a full account. I've posted picture of my back-breaking garden, and some photos of Europe and Mexico. As my mother would say, "an-joi".

The Deck, Summer 06

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Originally uploaded by William 1950.

Here's the post from my Flickr site.