RSS

When RSS feeds were first explained to me I didn't get it. Then I had someone else explain it to me, I still didn't get it. Finally I got it. Now I have an RSS feed reader, perhaps I only sort of get it. I added 9 feeds which I think will be useful, the blogs of the other nine people in my department. Now I can keep tabs on their blogs more easily. I also added some feeds from the times and some library websites like david lee king. I wish we hadn't been required to add so many feeds. How much time do you think I spend reading websites at work everyday? I don't have time to see every single update from that many sites, even when it's narrowed down to give me only information which I might find relevant. If I go back and delete some of the extra websites I was forced to add I bet I'll actually find RSS feeds borderline useful. If nothing else I won't have to check everyones blog anymore.

Flickr Mashups

I enjoyed this activity. Look, look, I even found a practical application for the trading card generator. Liesl took over my book baby program for last week on short (very short, one might even say nonexistent) notice. So I made her this card. Next time she doesn't feel up to book baby I'll take care of it.

This whole trading card generator reminds me of an idea my friend and I had when we worked at the Marriott Library. We were going to make staff trading cards. We took pictures of everyone and I even kept stats on myself for two weeks (# of check-ins/outs, #of books shelved, dollar amount of fines collected, plus a bunch of other stats I don't remember). Eventually the project ran out of steam as a result of a combination of apathy and lack of ability to create an interesting template for the cards, if only this flickr trading card maker had existed back then.

I also made a second card w/ our department logo from the basketball tournament last summer. Super rad!

Flickr

Flickr is nice I suppose.... I feel like I'm already down with this post.
Here's a dinosaur picture I found on flickr. I stole it from Scott Kinmartin, I don't know him and I probably never will. I don't really see a way that flickr is relevant to my work here at the library. I suppose I could use a flickr account to upload pictures of events that happened here at the library, but it seems to me that is what the library's website is for.
I doubt I would even come to flickr to search for an image of something, google's image search has always been good enough for me.