I'm Finished!

I did it!

Kym was right, the last two exercises were really easy. I enjoyed exploring MySpace and LinkedIn. I know Theresa and my husband both have profiles on LinkedIn. I've been contacted by several people who want to be my friend on Shelfari, and that's the site I use several times each week. So now I feel a little more comfortable accepting invitations from people.

This was a great experience. Although I worked on it in fits and starts, every exercise taught me something I need to know about.

In Love With a Vampire

I got lucky and found a Wiki on the Twilight Saga, and really enjoyed reading what all the devoted fans have pulled together. I think I'll be bookmarking that one...

Exercise 6

Dear Reader, it's been a while since I've posted. I realized I never posted after finishing Exercise 6 on downloading audio. For the podcast exercise, I listened to Roy Blount Jr. talking about his book Alphabet Soup on NPR's Book Talk with Alan Farley. I didn't know anything about Mr. Blount or the book, but I found it fascinating as it's all about the origins and uses of letters! With a first-grader learning to read at the speed of light, this is probably the perfect book for my academic side!

I also successfully downloaded Double Take by Catherine Coulter. I'm looking forward to more iPod-compatible books coming soon, because I'd love to make more use of this service.

It was Really Simple!

I enjoyed the exercise on RSS feeds. I had subscribed to one at home, and it's going to be hard to stay out of the web at work when I see the new postings come in.

Long Time No Blog

I guess that's one disadvantage of getting the first 4 8N08 exercises before everyone else--done in April and no blogging all summer!

I am back on the trail of technology and want you to notice my Shelfari shelf posted on my blog--it changes as frequently as my moods! I've so enjoyed Shelfari as a way of organizing and sharing my reading habits. So far, it's been my favorite most practical application of 8N08.

Nose Sucking Butt Grabber

I'm not trying to insult you, dear reader, but I can't stop laughing at what I created with the Insult Generator. Some of the insults were so naughty I couldn't possibly post them here. You'll have to ask me in the lunchroom for those.

I had a lot of fun with the image generator (as Kym predicted) and with Pandora. Rollyo was good to know about but I haven't figured out the best application for it yet. Webjunction I can see would be useful at times, but it also seemed like it was just one more place to go in the neverending quest for information and "connectedness." I checked out "Top 20 Ways of Serving Older Adults" and really didn't find anything new or groundbreaking, but it would be a good place to start if you worked in a small library that was just exploring how to serve seniors better.

Tagged and Bagged

I love tagging. This exercise was not my first experience with tagging. The first time I discovered it was when I was creating a wish list on Amazon.com for Christmas. Tagging helped me find toys my kids might like based on toys I was searching. Plus, I loved being able to click on "cool" and see what somebody else thinks is a cool toy for a 2 1/2 year old boy.

I asked Kym if "I got lost in a tag cloud" is now a suitable excuse for being late to work...and she said yes! Must file that one away...

I went back to Amazon for this exercise and found the book I'm currently reading, The Third Angel by Alice Hoffman. I'm a fan of magical realism and wanted to tag this item as part of that genre and see what other books have been tagged by others as such. It really did work out as I expected: I saw books by my other favorite magical realism writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Sarah Addison Allen, and Laura Esquivel.

I've been tagged and bagged, people!