Thing 13 Del.icio.us

This was sort of interesting. I think people who would really need this to sort their bookmarks would have a lot of time on their hands. Many of the sites I look at on my home computer are online accounts - banking, credit cards, which I wouldn't want as favorites on another computer anyway. After random clicking on links, I found some interesting sites including art ones - learning how to draw different animals, and some music sites - one showing the position for guitar chords, and one with tuning forks which played musical notes. I enjoyed the links from the PLCMCL's site. Several were worth looking at. One link was a librarian's favorite / currently reading books.

Thing 12 Rollyo

This was not very useful; I didn't enjoy this task. I would have liked it more if the webpages of the searchrolls came up and not just the domain name. That would have made the list of sites much more enjoyable. I would have looked at many more of the sites if they had been more "exciting." I did a health searchroll and did check on a particular topic. I looked at the Mayo Clinic's website and the information was good but I'm sure they are listed on Google also. I was surprised to see what looked like "sponsored" websites on the list. I thought those would have been taken off - only "legitimate" sites listed.

Thing 11 Library Thing

This was very enjoyable. I added 7 books. The second day I tried again and could add the books to my blog. The next time I reviewed my blog, all the book covers showed up - although the one HP cover is different from the one I own. (Two of the other book covers are different editions from mine also but I wanted to be sure a cover showed up so didn't choose those versions in LibraryThing.) I liked the recommendations. For one of mine, I had read all of the "books with similar tags" part of the recommendations. I found, though, with the "unsuggester" that when I put in Harry Potter, it seemed to think I would not like a lot of religious-type books - that was interesting. I liked knowing how many people had "my" books on their lists - and how popular they were. One of mine said it had "53,000 more popular books than it" - !

Thing Ten

Trying out various generators was fun - one I liked in particular was the "acronym generator." I was reading "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" when doing this assignment, so I put in "goblet" - the acronym came out "General Omni-Binary Library Expansion Technology." I made up an avatar on Yahoo but couldn't figure out how to make it appear on my blog - I was very disappointed. I tried one on Meez but I didn't like the hair or face choices - and the lack of organization for the options didn't help. Later ... from putting my books from LibraryThing onto my blog, I realized it was the same process to add my avatar to my blog. Now they are both on my page, and it looks very good!