Catching Up

I'm reading Everything is Miscellaneous: the power of the new digital disorder by David Weinberger (Joho the Blog) and I just finished reading Henry Jenkins' Convergence Culture: where old and new media collide. Both books are fascinating reads.

I was tickled to find myself quoted in Stephen's Lighthouse while catching up on my Bloglines subscriptions last weekend. Stephen Abram's inspiring presentation at my library earlier this year sparked the enthusiasm felt by many of the kcls27things participants in my department and division.

I saw this item first reported by the excellent Librarian in Black a few days ago.

PLCMC has followed up their trend-setting Library 2.0 program with:

Learning 2.1: Explore...Discover...Play.

In the first Library 2.1 lesson I learned about a nifty file conversion utility called Zamzar. I used it to convert a .wma sound file I created to an .mp3 file in less than a minute.

I've fallen behind on my posting because I am learning how to set up wikis on pbwiki in my spare time. My goal is to eliminate up to half the paper clutter that surrounds my desk and go digital and miscellaneous!

Thanks, I'll stick with Bloglines

I tried Feedster. I wanted to like it because it had a shiny appearance. Searching was frustrating because I found too many irrelevant hits. I can't imagine stumbling serendipitously across something better than the sites that I already subscribe to. I preferred starting with some recommended blogs and working my out from there. Find a blog you like, see what's on the blogroll and follow the links.

Technorati on the other hand, wow. It's pretty neat. I signed up (another set passwords to remember), claimed my blog, and exported a nifty search tool to put into my blog. More exploration will follow, I'm sure.

I like Bloglines because I'm used to it. It's easy and I appreciate not being given a lethal dose of advertising every time I visit.