Del.icio.us

Well, I am certainly enjoying some of the new things we're trying out here for Learn & Play. Like some of the others, I had heard of del.icio.us before, but had never tried it. I especially like the tagging feature, which gives people the ability to find numerous sites by topics or other keywords just by doing a search. The thing I've always find most irritating about using most search engines is that you often have to know exactly what site you're looking or else it'll take you a decent amount of time to find what you're looking for, if at all.

Twitter

Twitter is actually a fairly interesting site where you can find out pretty much everything that's going on in someone's life, in the world, etc. in a matter of seconds. The main use of this type of site for library purposes would be a kind of answer and question sort of thing where people can get a quick answer by phone, e-mail, or web browser.

Just in case you're interested, and I just know you are, my twitter user name is: Maverick4527

LibraryThing

This is actually a pretty nice site that, among other things, gives you book recommendations based on the books you've added to the site that you've already read. Since it was early in the morning when I was surfing the site, I simply added the last 5 books that I've read to the site.

Here's the link to my profile page on the site with my 5 books: http://www.librarything.com/home/Maverick4527

Online Image Generator

Well, that was pretty fun. I had actually never used an online image generator before and knew next to nothing about it. Well, here's the image I generated.
FYI, I used http://www.letterjames.com/

Finding Feeds

I liked the bloglines search the most. It was the easiest to understand and, in my opinion, gave better search results than the other ones.

RSS Feeds

So, I spent a little bit of time checking out some of the various RSS feeds available on the web. They cover just about any topic one could think of. To be honest, I can understand how it could be useful for someone with a busy schedule and would like to be always up to date on the things they're interested in, but otherwise I don't see the great advantage to it for someone like myself. For the most part, I can just spend a few minutes surfing the net and find the exact same information. To each their own I guess.