As you can see, I've been playing with image and text generators. They're awfully fun.
It's very easy to do. Each page seems to have its own instructions about how to copy the html to your blog. After doing it once, though, it was almost all the same.
To find them, I just typed in text generator or image generator into a search engine and got lots of hits.
I'm not sure there's an application for image and text generators in the library world.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
What's your fortune?
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Get a Fortune Cookie for your page!
Get a Fortune Cookie for your page!
Monday, December 17, 2007
Thing #9 - Twitter
Well, I've got a Twitter account and have entered something into it. None of my friends in my Yahoo mail account have a Twitter account so I can't follow any friends. My username is librarylynn.
Twitter would be especially useful for a librarian who is the mouthpiece of the library to talk about what's going on at the library.
Twitter would be especially useful for a librarian who is the mouthpiece of the library to talk about what's going on at the library.
Things #7 and 8
#7 was to get a bloglines account which I already had from a long time ago.
#8 was to add some feeds. I had forgotten how, and had to re-teach myself. It was quite easy.
I think that this is a great way to get news and blogs without having to make each one a bookmark on every computer you use. Just go to bloglines and pow! read up on everything since you visited before. This is especially handy since I don't want to force my bookmarks on other people who use the same computers I do.
#8 was to add some feeds. I had forgotten how, and had to re-teach myself. It was quite easy.
I think that this is a great way to get news and blogs without having to make each one a bookmark on every computer you use. Just go to bloglines and pow! read up on everything since you visited before. This is especially handy since I don't want to force my bookmarks on other people who use the same computers I do.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Thing #6
Okay, I figured out I was numbering everything wrong. Now I'm on track.
For #6, I'm supposed to look at some library web sites which are using Web 2.0 and blog about anything Web 2.0 that I think would be useful for our library.
Of the four libraries mentioned in the document I'm working from, the one I'm most impressed with is the Ann Arbor District Library.
Ann Arbor District Library has 2 things which I'd love to include on our web site (catalog). 1) Catalog tags. Wouldn't it be totally cool for the public to be able to tag a book or dvd or whatever? That's another way for people to search for items they're interested in and it's a way of involving the public. That got me excited. 2) AADL has a card catalog view of the MARC record. On it there are 3 places where a patron can write their opinion of the book or dvd, etc. So for Bride and Prejudice people wrote that it had good dancing, it's a fun movie, and that it's a great entree into Bollywood films.
For #6, I'm supposed to look at some library web sites which are using Web 2.0 and blog about anything Web 2.0 that I think would be useful for our library.
Of the four libraries mentioned in the document I'm working from, the one I'm most impressed with is the Ann Arbor District Library.
Ann Arbor District Library has 2 things which I'd love to include on our web site (catalog). 1) Catalog tags. Wouldn't it be totally cool for the public to be able to tag a book or dvd or whatever? That's another way for people to search for items they're interested in and it's a way of involving the public. That got me excited. 2) AADL has a card catalog view of the MARC record. On it there are 3 places where a patron can write their opinion of the book or dvd, etc. So for Bride and Prejudice people wrote that it had good dancing, it's a fun movie, and that it's a great entree into Bollywood films.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Thing #2 (again), Flickr Mashups
Well, I tried four Flickr mashups this week.
It involved first finding out what a mashup is. In this case, what a mashup is is a program that takes Flickr and does something else with the pictures and tags. I look at it as like an overhead with a transparency on the bottom called Flickr and one lying over it which is the mashup. It creates something new.
1) Retrievr: What you do here is draw a picture (or supply the website with a picture, which I didn't do) and Retrievr tries to find pictures to match what you drew. I think this is more fun that useful. I got lots of pictures with the color scheme that I drew in. I got lots of pretty results. But I didn't get lots of pertinent results. You also can't draw fine lines which I think is a drawback.
2) Spell with Flickr: I didn't spend too much time with this one. You enter a word and the mashup takes each letter and inserts a picture of the letter from Flickr. Fun for kidnappers, I call it.
3) Tagnautica: You enter a word/tag, and the program creates a circle of tags and pictures related to your tag. So "Hello Kitty" resulted in related tags like pink and toy and a bunch more. It was mesmerizing. I had so much fun doing this until I found out you can't click on the resulting tags and find more pictures with that tag.
4) Captionr!: I thought this one would be so much fun and I was disappointed. The pictures I chose always got turned sideways on the screen even though they were right side up in Flickr. Then when I tried to put in the caption, I couldn't turn the bubble to orient the same way as the picture. I just couldn't figure it out, so I gave up.
It involved first finding out what a mashup is. In this case, what a mashup is is a program that takes Flickr and does something else with the pictures and tags. I look at it as like an overhead with a transparency on the bottom called Flickr and one lying over it which is the mashup. It creates something new.
1) Retrievr: What you do here is draw a picture (or supply the website with a picture, which I didn't do) and Retrievr tries to find pictures to match what you drew. I think this is more fun that useful. I got lots of pictures with the color scheme that I drew in. I got lots of pretty results. But I didn't get lots of pertinent results. You also can't draw fine lines which I think is a drawback.
2) Spell with Flickr: I didn't spend too much time with this one. You enter a word and the mashup takes each letter and inserts a picture of the letter from Flickr. Fun for kidnappers, I call it.
3) Tagnautica: You enter a word/tag, and the program creates a circle of tags and pictures related to your tag. So "Hello Kitty" resulted in related tags like pink and toy and a bunch more. It was mesmerizing. I had so much fun doing this until I found out you can't click on the resulting tags and find more pictures with that tag.
4) Captionr!: I thought this one would be so much fun and I was disappointed. The pictures I chose always got turned sideways on the screen even though they were right side up in Flickr. Then when I tried to put in the caption, I couldn't turn the bubble to orient the same way as the picture. I just couldn't figure it out, so I gave up.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Thing #2 Flickr
I signed up for a Flickr account today and joined some groups. Signing up was way easy. So was joining the groups. (They have groups for everything!) I think the purpose is so I can post to the discussions and so I can post pictures to the group.
I think I will borrow my husband's digital camera and take some pictures and upload them. Just to see what it's like.
What I really enjoyed was looking at the tags and exploring pictures people took that way.
Next I need to look at mashups. I did a google search to find out what are mashups and I found a site which lists the 10 best Flickr mashups. What it looks like from the article is that programmers create some sort of toy or useful program for Flickr.
I think I will borrow my husband's digital camera and take some pictures and upload them. Just to see what it's like.
What I really enjoyed was looking at the tags and exploring pictures people took that way.
Next I need to look at mashups. I did a google search to find out what are mashups and I found a site which lists the 10 best Flickr mashups. What it looks like from the article is that programmers create some sort of toy or useful program for Flickr.
Monday, November 19, 2007
To Begin
I am a librarian learning Web 2.0 programs, by participating in a program called 23 Things. My first assignment is to set up a blog and post something.
Setting up this blog was quite easy. I have a gmail account and with that and a little more info, I was in! I also have a Live Journal account. If you go to library_lynn.livejournal.com you'll see books I've read and reviewed over a few years.
My second assignment is to explore Flickr.
Setting up this blog was quite easy. I have a gmail account and with that and a little more info, I was in! I also have a Live Journal account. If you go to library_lynn.livejournal.com you'll see books I've read and reviewed over a few years.
My second assignment is to explore Flickr.
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