Week 6 - del.icio.us

Easy work to register and get "post to del.icio.us" and "my del.icio.us" on my toolbar. Also easy to move on to a couple of sites and get them listed on "my del.icio.us"; and they work.

I put several tags on each; however, I will not be using the full potential of this site any time soon. The tags would be a great help to anyone doing some in depth research on a particular topic or someone looking to find another person with whom they had a common interest in some specific area; but, right now, that's not me. I will continue to use del.icio.us instead of my regular bookmarks in case I later want to take advantage of using the tags.

Week 5 - Search My Librarything Catalog

LibraryThing has a very well thought out page of directions, making it an easy site to use when creating a catalog. I just picked 15 nonfiction books that I enjoyed and quickly had them entered. Figuring out how to get things moved to my blog was much more difficult and very very time consuming. Better, easier to follow, directions were needed. As you can see, I first put some random holdings from my catalog on my blog. Eventually I will delete this. The LT Search Box will stay; but until I do a lot more work on some special subject, it is certainly unnecessary.

Week 5 - Librarything Catalog

Week 5 - Search Rolls - Rollyo

Select...Arianna's Top Political Blogsgeneral referenceinvestwithcareSearch The Web

Rollyo could be useful. I moved the political search site directly to my Rollyo account and then created a reference site. To actually decide if they would be useful will take time and use. I was disappointed to see that sponsored sites show up in the results list. If you are reading this, you can see that I did manage to get a search box moved to my blog using the "create a Searchbox" tool.

This whole process took far far more time than it should have taken because the directions are very inadequate.

Week 4 - RSS Feeds

Really Simple Syndication is a file format that I will actually use. It is pointless to say that there is simply more information than one needs and/or wants to read because most people are already thinking the same thing. Perhaps my blogline will help me keep up with items of interest because it will make the job easier.

I worked my way through the 21 pages of instructions and subscribed to almost everything mentioned (except 2 noted below) using the various methods suggested. The first exception was podcasts which I started to do without thinking about my dial-up connection and the amount of time that might be involved. Clicking on the stop load button didn't do anything nor did clicking on quit Safari. I was considering pulling the plug; but, fortunately, my very forgiving Mac eventually agreed to force quit Safari. I looked at a lot of the Yahoo groups but decided not to subscribe to any of them.

To see the sites that I did subscribe to, just visit: http://bloglines.com/public/icecreamlover1

So far as ways to subscribe ... copy and paste is easy because I am quite used to doing that. I have put the "sub with Bloglines" on my bookmark bar and that is also handy to use.

Eventually I will remove many of the feeds on my site, winnowing the list down to new, a couple of book related site and a few of personal interest.