CAN I HAS VIDEO?

Just seeing if I can embed another video using code.

CORRUPTING POP CULTURE

I made me a Mash Up.
Click to see.

Continuing Number 9

Well I added a couple of feeds to my Bloglines reader using the Bloglines search feature and Topix. The Topix feeds are news about the town I live in and the one I was born in. The others are about Meezers or Siamese cats.

AAAAACCCKKKKKK!

SpeechAgents make it sound like you get a minimum but reasonable amount of features for free--but when you sign up and give them your personal info you find you have to pay for anything beyond four character options and three backgrounds. And then they insert advertisements on your site!!! I thought I had read their agreement but I skimmed over it too fast and missed that detail. I had to delete and re-do two posts because after I linked to an animated speaking avatar made at their site all sorts of words and phrases were highlighted in green and created pop-up advertisements when I scrolled over them. MERLIN shouldn't include a link to that site without a warning. SpeechAgents is an opportunistic rip-off. That was a lesson to me to read more carefully.

THING 9

Okay--here's what I have learned:
Not all libraries should have My Space pages. My Space pages can be very monotonous unless you really do something different with the content and hurry people to links really fast. Also, I don't see much point in having My Space pages directed at anyone but teens and maybe twenty-somethings since most others won't find you or won't visit you. And the ones that do visit may think you are totally out of it, anyway, if you don't do it right. There's a certain geeky charm to some of the librarian generated content you can find through MERLIN, though.
Oh look, there's a link to Meez on the Gaming, Avatars, Virtual Worlds page. I guess I got there before my time. I've also dabbled in Second Life (I like flying) so maybe I'll check out Info Island when I get home. I can't do it here at work because you have to download software. I think it's pretty cool that some colleges are offering classes in Second Life. That means you could have a clothing malfunction in the middle of class sometimes. Gack! Nightmares revisited for virtual real. ROTFLMAO.
It's hard to watch YouTube video at work because of the bad connection. You have to keep on waiting for the video to buffer. This is annoying when time is of the essence.

I Know When You've Been Sleeping...

I'm tracking your blogs from my Bloglines account.

I added some library themed blogs and discovered how to make folders to stash things in. I like the way that you can see how many new posts are in a folder without opening the folder.
Grouping feeds into Bloglines is a good way to unclutter your browser of feeds you don't look at quite as much.

The method of sharing one's Bloglines account seems to have changed a little since the instructions were posted on Maryland Libraries Learning 2.0 and Bloglines doesn't make the procedure clear either. It took a lot of poking around and the help of a colleague before I figured out how to post a link to my feeds, but...

Here's my Bloglines page.

I Made a Feedster Widget

Look in the right-hand column.
Now I can get all the latest news and posts about ZOMBIES!
I've added a search bar, though, so you can search other subjects if you want.

[NOTE FROM THE FUTURE: It's now January, 2008 and Feedster is DEAD. I'm looking for another site that will make a news widget.]

[ANOTHER NOTE FROM THE FUTURE: I found another way to make a news feed, that's why you see something different on the right]

Here's one of my favorite things I've found about Zombies.
A Zombie Pub Crawl.
Well, there's the link, but I'm trying to upload the video to my blog, too. It seems to have worked but I wonder if 24 megs are too big for my blog. How many megs to I get, anyway? Time to check.