#10 MySpace...not yours

So....I already have a MySpace page. Here 'tis.

#9 MySpace...dun dun DUN!

Few other topics have distressed libraries as much as MySpace. Reading the comments on Librarian in Black's blog regarding the library's involvement on MySpace just confirms this.

I must say that I am a bit disturbed by the KCLS MySpace page. Like, why is the library 19 years old? And whose favorites are those? I mean, I get it, we are trying to use the new social networking technologies to go where our users are, but I think we aren't quite getting it yet. It just seems square for "the library" to have a MySpace page, and I certainly won't be its friend! How embarrassing! How much of a nebbish do you need to be to list the library as a social connection? Sorry if that's harsh, I mean, I'm a librarian, for heaven's sake, and even I don't want to be friends with the library...

I could be totally wrong. I just think KCLS will only have friends such as authors, staff, library school students, and MySpacers looking to get their friend count up.

#8 FEED ME SEYMORE!!!

Feed me all night long...

Okay, so I tried finding craft blogs using Bloglines Search and Feedster with no luck, but got what I wanted immediately with Google Blog Search (I really wanted the other ones to work better than Google, but there you go). Syndic8 got me some good stuff, too, but was interspersed with unrelated hits. Just as an experiment, I just did a regular Google search on cupcake blogs, and got exactly what I wanted right away...go figure.

Check out the cupcake blog and shopping blog I chose. I also subscribed to two library resources that I was already familiar with: Tales from the Liberry and the Librarian's Internet Index.

#7 RSS

I already have a Bloglines account, and actually, had already added the Learning 2.0 site (I am so on top of things!). I added LISNews, which I had previously viewed through my email, and Resource Shelf, which is something I really should read more frequently.

Next I chose my staff blogs, Beagle Rules the World (cuz who can resist cute doggies?) and Ms. Martina's Progress (quirky and fun).

I already had an email subscription to Unshelved, but changed to a feed so my inbox won't get so cluttered. I think that is definitely my favorite part of RSS: not having to fill my inbox with stuff that I just end up deleting anyway.

#6: Do the mashup potato

Yeah...so I tried Retrievr, and thought it was pretty dumb. I tried something simple like a heart shape, and got stuff that didn't seem to match at all...too bad, because it could have been really cool.

Montagr took too long, so I gave up (I am all about instant gratification!)

Now, FlckrChia Pet is cool! Check it out!

Flickr: Mom and Meh

Mom and Meh,
originally uploaded by cupcakegrl.

This is the photo I ended up using...

#5 - Flickr

So, I love Flickr. I use it all the time to look at other people's photos and find fun images. However, I hadn't ever actually signed up with my own account (we usually share photos through Sony Imagestation). The first photo I uploaded was this charming one from the Corbis database...but then I thought this might violate some copyright restrictions, so I trashed it and chose one of my mother and I instead (see Flickr blog post). Not as funny as the elephants eating birthday cake, but oh well...