Took a look at "feeds"

I took a look at some of the feeds through our catalog.

First I looked at Library News. I clicked on the "New Movies in the Adult Department" link and was a little confused to find "Dora the Explorer, Dora saves the mermaids", "Diego saves the tree frogs", and "High school musical 2". I don't consider them adult movies. Also, the next on the list is "Christmas with the Kranks" which isn't "new".

Under Public Feeds I found "Snopes Urban Legends", which is something I'm a little familiar with. Then I checked out Local Feeds and took a look at the Weather Channel.

After that I explored our new web site. I found the "RSS" link at the bottom of the page and clicked on "Adult New DVDs" and subscribed to it. Some other things that I noticed are as follows:
I like the new feature associated with our Program Calendar. I like that we can choose any one or all of the departments to view.
I posted a comment through the Readers Advisory Blog - in the Mystery category since I just finished reading Patterson's new book, "Run for your life".
I like our new look, and if people take a little time to really look around and click on things, there is a wealth of information at your fingertips!

Kudos to all who played a part in this project!!!

Reading Google Reader

This was pretty interesting. A great source for many different types of information. Since I like to read recipes (not that I actually cook a lot of them - but you never know!) I checked out the Betty Crocker feed. I found an interesting recipe - "Slow Cooker Chicken Stroganoff Pot Pie", so I printed it out. If I ever get around to making this dish - I'll be sure to blog about it!

After that I created my own account and subscribed to a few feeds. Besides the Betty Crocker that I liked, I found another that looked interesting, "New Crockpot Slow Cooker Recipes", so I subscribed to both. Then I took a look at the Mastic Beach feed that was suggested in the "Try It Out!" section from our list of activities. This was very informative - especially regarding the possible incorporation of Mastic Beach into a village. Since I live here, I was glad to be able to find all this info at my fingertips. The following link was especially interesting, http://www.masticbeach.org/

Suffolk Wave

Just finished this one. I decided to download a title I already read - just to check out the difference between listening and reading. I only tried an audiobook once and didn't like it.

I chose "Cross Country" by James Patterson. I'm listening a little while I type this - but I tend to get too absorbed in what I'm doing and eventually stop listening to the story - unlike when I listen to music!

I do like the fact that the title will expire and I don't have to do anything to return it.

Flickr

I signed up for a Flickr account today. I decided to upload one of my favorite pictures ever. In 2006 my husband and I went on an Alaskan Cruise. It was the best vacation I have ever been on and I'll never forget it! The most exciting part was when we saw Hubbard Glacier. We caught some amazing shots of the glacier "calving" - that's when pieces of the glacier fall off and into the water. I would definitiely like to go back to Alaska some day!

You Tube

I was trying to take a look at You Tube, but unfortunately I had some technical problems! I don't have any sound. I've called IT and am waiting for help with this. In the meantime, I still took a look around. My kids have shown some funny things on You Tube in the past so I've seen it before. Since I like to laugh I decided to look for a video that was sent to my personal e-mail at home the other day. After I found it, I decided to try and post it, so here goes:

LibraryThing

I just finished looking at LibraryThing. I first want to mention that it wasn't easy following the directions for this exercise. I went into our catalog and searched for "7th Heaven", but couldn't find the tag cloud. After talking with several people, we found it - but we had to choose the large print entry first. I don't think that the directions were specific enough in this case.

Anyway, I don't do very much work with book titles and the catalog, etc. I do read, but not a lot - and only certain authors. I guess this tool would be more helpful to others than to myself. Although I guess that I could utilize this to find some other authors to read.

One other thing that I'd like to mention is that I don't understand 2 of the tags that I saw in the "7th Heaven" record - "America" and "21st Century"!? They seem too broad to be useful. Well, that's just my opinion.

Here's the link to my LibraryThing account: http://www.librarything.com/home/toniw56

Delicious is good!

I really like this one! I bookmarked the site for ABC News (www.abcnews.com) and gave it a bunch of tags (news, abc, goodmorningamerica, worldnewstonight and MMSCL2.0). When I took a look at The Internet Movie Database, I spotted the story that just happened last night regarding Joaquin Phoenix on the David Letterman Show - I had heard about it on the radio today - and there it was, right in front of me! (Talk about up-to-date!)

I think that I'll sign up for this - when I have more time!!!