You take good pictures

No, this shouldn't be used as a cheating tool by the unskillful photographers. But I've got a ticket for you:),








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Have a fun trip!

Thing #9 finding feeds

I prefer bloglines.com's search tool--it's more user friendly than the others listed. Plus, it's one stop shopping for me: I have an account there and using the search tool there doesn't entail having to remember other search tools' URLs--adding them to Favorites isn't a good option, you find yourself get inudated really fast. I've got about 17 feeds added to my reader, including the http://columbusmetropolitanlibrary.wordpress.com/feed/.

but each has its own merit:

Technorati looked very uncluttered, almost bare, but it's good, and it lets you search tags--lump subjects together, great;

Syndic8 looked cluttered but the search box is very easy to locate and the list retrived is easy to have a quite glance and grab what you need;

Topix has all the categories on the homepage which are easy to glance and go right to what interests you.

on RSS

Quite a topic to learn, I have to say, but useful. Talk about service, you don't have to go get something but something will automatically land on your door step, once you set up the channel.

I like the bloglines.com's reader indicates the number of new postings that you one hasn't yet read; and it let you choose how old a post you want to see--helps narrow or widen your search parameter, if you were looking for something that you remembered seeing.

I can see we provide RSS on our website to help our power users to keep track of various categories of new additions to our collection.

QinxinJiandan@twitter.com

Vola! A while back when I first heard all the chirps in my mailbox, I should've realized why.

The instantaneous posting of twiting is very appealing for someone who needs an answer desperately or impatiently, like we often observe from behind the Reference post (I don't think we want to call it a "desk" any more, that's so old fashioned, isn't it? and we may call "reference" something entirely differently, as well, as time progresses or someone's ingeniety sparks), but I'm uncertain the time it takes to transmit an answer can make up for the time it takes to find a reputable answer to a quiry. One good use the library should exploit of twitter, along with some noise suppresors, is to get all the good-library-behavior-challenged people to twit--a good place to congregate and socializing without creating a havoc for other quietness seeking library users.
What can I say. One can always dream. And the dream may come true.

the impressive new technology

I have not seen anything technology-related that interests me this week. But I have decided that, I'll spend half hour each week to peruse new technology related subjects. If one doesn't look, one may miss the whole world.

flickr

My nephew wanted to see Panera's exterior and interior; but my camera is out of commission right now. What handier way to get pics for him than flickr! The little fellow is happy as a clam now, I hope. But I can always bribe him with sweets sold in Panera.

more flickr fun

mashup is mostly fun! I like the color pickr better than the montagr--something quite unsuitable for the eyes popped up as I drag my cursor over the images. I guess technology is like the Pandora's box--it keeps hope but also releases all the undesireables. Mapr is all right. Waiting for better technology to impress me--just like I'm waiting for a microwave oven that can get food from the fridge and heat it up with a vocal commend. And it better be better than Vocera.