Social Networking

So, I am on exercise 8 and i have both a facebook and a myspace account. I use my accounts to keep up with old friends and to connect with friends i dont see often. We post pictures and blogs to share what is new and exciting. Both my accounts are private. but, if you ask, I may just let you be my friend! :)

Wiki's-#7

Today I re-explored wiki's...I worked on this exercise a few weeks ago and found some interesting information on the uncyclopedia site. you really can learn about all sorts of different things...however, in my personally opinion, most are not true :) Wikihow gives great details on how to do all sorts of things from Halloween costumes to kissing...Well, with the holidays coming, I decided to look up Rock Band on wikia. I didnt learn a whole lot of new things, but it would be a nice place to start research.

A Visitor For Bear

Today I tackled Exercise 6...I listened to NPR: Children's Literature with Daniel Pinkwater on NPR...very neat to hear just what you want to hear instead of the whole program...and it does drive me crazy when I miss the one part of the hour show i want to hear! In this podcast, Daniel Pinkwater reads A Visitor For Bear by Bonny Becker...they also describe the illustrations. Very enlightening! It would be good to subscribe to this podcast to hear new books for storytime!

I started the Overdrive portion too. I have downloaded e books on here before, but it was a nice refresher! I have not downloaded again yet, but hope to complete it soon...stay tuned!!

Interesting...

Well, i worked on Exercise 5 today and think I may enjoy these RSSs feeds...I set up four and will keep checking them today to see how well I like them...it is kinda different because i do like the pictures and things on the original websites and they change color when you have viewed that link...i will check and see if this is something that i will use frequently. It is nice, however, to know now how that orange icon works and what it entails!

Well, today I went back and the stories on my RSS feeds were the same as yesterday. It took a bit of clicking and reading, but i figured out refresh works :) now i have new data on my feeds. I am not quite sure how much I like it, but i will give it some time to see if it grows on me!

LOVE IT!!

I am really enjoying Pandora :) Here is my profile link to my stations :)

http://www.pandora.com/people/wilson082#

Dinner Made Easy

Looking for quick dinner ideas? This just got a bit easier with my rollyo :)

It includes sites like:
allrecipes.com
cooksrecipes.com
foodnetwork.com
Family.com
SimpleAndDelicious.com

its great for finding easy new recipes :) Definitly a rollyo I will use!

Mashups

Today we are kinda quiet here in Brunswick so I am working on these activities and I am onto Mashups. I entered and didnt get any good results. For those of you who don't know, letterboxing is like geocaching without a GPS unit. You follow clues and use a compass. So, I tried again with geocaching and got this interesting site:
http://ochre.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/geocaching-mapping-made-easyier/

It actually helps you use geocaching coordinates on Google maps...interesting!

Teton Taggin

So, I have been playing around with tagging in Flickr and found some gorgous pictures! I started with my picture of the sunsetting behind the Grand Tetons. I tagged it Grand Tetons and looked at those...at the bottom, there was a Jackson Hole tag...I love it at Jackson Hole so I followed the tag to my favorite Jackson Hole landmark :

the antler arches :)

Flickr Pictures

I recently experimented with Flickr...not too bad. It will be a nice way to share photos with my friend who recently moved to Atlanta. Right now we do that through myspace. The next thing I am working on is trying to add my favorites to my slide show. I am not sure if this is possible, so keep checking back for an update. Or, if anyone knows and would like to share, that would be great too :)

What I am Reading

Just in case you were wondering, right now I am reading Elegant Gathering of White Snow by Kris Radish. It is a book that looks at the importance of close friendships, a definite must read for women everywhere!!

hmmm...

Well, I think that I may be going back to workin two jobs again :) I spoke with my old boss at On Tap and they would like me to help out at the store here in Medina. So, after a bit of going back and forth, I have decided to go ahead and work something like 15 hours a week there. It will really help in saving money for library school :)

I Did It!

Hooray!! Abbycadabby has set up her own blog! This should be a fun bunch of activities to do :)