Del.icio.us is an interesting concept. The ability to categorize bookmarks and then compare bookmarks with others to find additional or relevant information can be very helpful. The tutorial for the site was poor. The video size was very small and if you download the video and view in a larger window the video is of poor quality.
Technorati acts as a search engine for blogs and based on the excercises for this week will return different results on the same search depending upon which area is being searched (blog posts, tags, blog directory).
Monday, May 21, 2007
Friday, May 4, 2007
Week 5 - Play Week
It's play week! The Generator Blog website had many many fun toys to play with and I could easily spend a great of time with the various imaging tools or create a gangsta, pirate, or prison name for myself. I created the avatar and enjoyed spending some time to play with things that I have not spent the time to learn about or play with previously.
I created an account with Library Thing and added some books to my shelf. My books can be found at http://www.librarything.com/profile/iseibert and are a mix of things I have on the shelves at home. The direction again were a little vague with this task. The instructions said to link my catalog to this blog but there is not a button or tab to do so. After a few minutes I found that my URL is listed in the "your profile" tab.
The Rollyo website seems like a good idea to limit search to known sources or sources which others have recommended. It weeds out a lot of the google garbage if you are doing some research or dont' want to sift through all the returns from a generic search. Again, the instructions on posting a link to your blog are vague because Rollyo does not have an option to do so easily. I sent myself an email link from the tools option and received the following link which doesn't seem to list the searchroll I created, http://rollyo.com/iseibert/ians_searchroll/.
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