blogging class at the library

today we have six people here at the library ready to learn about blogs.

how to add an RSS feed to your blog

Yeah! I finally figured out how to add an RSS feed to your blog. If you go to template on the top of the compose page, choose add a page element, then select "feed" from the list of choices that comes up you will be able to add the URL on the next page. Just click on continue and the RSS feed will appear on the right side of your blog. I knew there had to be a way and I was determined to find it. Persistence paid off. If anyone needs help with this please let me know.

new search engines

Jason posted a list of 25 new search engines on the library announcement blog and it seems like a good thing to have here for future reference.
http://oedb.org/library/features/top-25-web20-search-engines

library thing sign-up

I went into library thing and created my own library. I added five books to the collection. It is kind of neat. If I was more organized I might actually do something like this. But, they do charge after 200 books and I have way more than that.
Here is the link to my little library.
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php

image generators

The images on the blog turned out pretty good. I just used the examples given on the 2.0 assignment lists. I am sure there must be many more out there to choose from. This was fun so far.

image generators

I am working on an assignment for 2.0 that requires us to learn about image generators. I am going to try and put a sign on here.

quote from extraordinary blogs and zines

I got such a big kick out of this paragraph in the book, "Extraordinary Blogs and Ezines," by Lynne Rominger:
"Believe it or not there used to be a time when very few people had computers in their homes. All libraries had files called card catalogs. Long skinny drawers were stuffed full of cards. Each card held all the information about one book. You had to thumb through the cards to find what you needed. Homework was written out by hand or typed on a typewriter."
I can't believe I have lived long enough to become part of folklore. I love the "believe it or not" exclamatory remark.

rss feeds

I have completed the 2.0 assignments
#8 and #9 about RSS Feeds. I created a bloglines account, www.bloglines.com/blog/blackhillsgoddess. I have chosen a number of feeds and put them on my site and also found library-related feeds as required in this 2.0 assignment. I don't write much on the bloglines blog but I do look at the feeds on a regular basis.

I used Blogger images to move this photo of the Badlands to my blog. I learned something about the process when I first tried to move an image from Google images to my blog and it didn't work because it was copyrighted and it wasn't a jpeg.
I love this photo because it reminds of spring. The Badlands are best appreciated in the spring or the fall when it isn't so hot and the rattlesnakes aren't so active.

This the assignment #5 in Flicker 2.0