I love music especially Al Jarreau

I took the liberty of adding one of my favorite singers to my blog, the multi-talented Al Jarreau.


It was easy, and fun. If I don't stop this soon, I will probably run out of space.


I also decided to change my template. I think it looks glamourous, sleek and lethal.

Useful Tagging

There are lots of reasons why we want tags. It is empowering. It lets us in on the action. We get to put our spin on it.
Libraries can definitely benefit from the collaborative effort of their patrons. They can share their photos of events and open them up to memebers.
We post a lot of pix on our W and X drives. But our patrons don't see them.
With all the many events we have, this would be a great tool to market them for future years, and entice people to join up.

Mashups are great...

I am bedazzled by all the things we can create with photos, with 6 children and 3 grandchildren, there are a lot of photo opps…
I can see my budget going out the window.
I played with flickr color picker, and montage and would love to make puzzles from my pictures. I did upload a picture of my youngest grand baby.
Mashups are great, but it seems like you need to know some HMTL, and some programming. I checked out the color picker, and liked the pix, but I could not see how I could use it.
So much to explore...so little time.
I also viewed trading card and mosaic maker, and would like to try the movie poster! Delusions of grandeur. I have two sons who fancy themselves as actors. this would make their day!

Just posin'

A picture is worth a thousand words. I enjoy Flickr because as my family is located all over the place. This site allows us to share pictures without costly printing. Also if anything were to happen to the originals, we have the sets uploaded.

LibraryThing...I think I love you

What fun. I reviewed several of the free sites, Pandora: Radio form the Music Genome Project is a free music service. You can create your radio station, by selecting the type of format you like, ie, gospel, jazz, rock, country. You can have up to 100 stations. The drawback is there are musicians they cannot play, but they will play someone whose style is similar. It is a great way to broaden your horizons by listening to some new people.

I also checked out Odeo, which is similar to Youtube, only more suited for MP3/ Folks upload their videos, (a lot of new bands)- which looked a bit more professionally put together than most of what I’ve seen on YouTube.

JuiceCaster is a cool tech toy, that allows you to upload video from your phone’s camera to your blog or MySpace, FaceBook. But Podshow takes the cake! You can get lost on that site.

My absolute favorite is LibraryThing. I am a bookaholic. I could run up the steps to the Washington Monument before I would be cured. I’ve always wanted a way to categorize the books I read, and somehow have a brief summary. If I were to refer a title to someone else, this makes it so easy.

in the know...technorati

Technorati seemed a bit more complicated an awful lot of blogs, but not a lot of useful information. I was not as comfortable using it, as I am del.icio.us or google and could not get any really authentic information. Usually I am researching topics for school assignments, so I need authentic information. Although every source was cited as authentic--right. I searched “early childhood education”, daycare, but only got parents’ responses how it saved them when they were ill, but no organization or teacher’s response. Maybe with more practice, I’ll be able to navigate better. I am sure they’re out there…Maybe I need help!

a strawberry smoothie--it's del.icio.us

I think tagging is a super idea. I signed up with del.icio.us and have been using it for research. I can readily find and re-access information, and I can see what others are collecting in my area.