My very own search tool!!!!!!!!!

There's going to be a lot of development going on. What a great tool. Thinking about all the applications. I'm gonna need more time with this!!

#12 - Rollyo

Checked out someonelse's Rollyo on Knowledge Management. Searched for Overload and got some great hits. Here's one: an article called Companies tap RSS to tame info overload from Infoworld.

Here's a link to a Rollyo I created on College Point, NY.

Checked out that Library Thing (#11)

Well, I like it. Found some obscure "family history" materials and added them to My Library. This will be a great place to add books related to my crazy ancestors and share the list with my mom.


Interesting ancestors:

Jeremiah Vanderbilt, Town Clerk, Flushing. In 1789 his house, along with the bulk of documents relating to the Flushing Remonstrance of 1657, were destroyed in a fire. Queens Library is participating in the 350th anniversary of the Flushing Remonstrance.


Abraham Van Nest, wealthy merchant, owner of Van Nest Homestead that covered what is now known as the West Village (why oh why did some of this bounty not trickle down?!?)


John and Priscilla Alden. Yup, I'm one of those Mayflower descendants. Of those that migrated to America on the Mayflower, John and Priscilla probably have the largest number of descendents.

William Merritt Post, my great-grandfather, was a turn of the century painter of streams and trees.

William Gardner, another one of my great-grandfathers, was a famous yacht designer, including the record breaking Schooner, The Atlantic. The Atlantic "under command of the notorious Charlie Barr won the transatlantic race for the Kaiser's Cup from New York to England in the spring of 1905 in 12 days, 4 hours and 1 minute. A record that stood 100 years."

And many more!!!


Library Thing should prove to be very useful! Glasshalffull's (a.k.a. Lianna's) Library.

On a roll....#10 This is my brain.

according to Brainscannr. Apparently I am ruled by LOVE!! Check out Brainscannr

Revolution Number Nine...number nine...number nine

Tried out Technorati for some feeds. At first I was not impressed, until I found one really useful one under their TOPIC--Life: The Simple Dollar I was interested in Technorati's "authority ranking," which they describe as "the number of blogs linking to a website in the last six months. The higher the number, the more Technorati Authority the blog has." Interesting how they use the term "authority" rather than "popularity." Can one always assume a blog is authoritative based on number of blogs linking to it. We librarians often talk to our customers about looking for signs of authority on Websites. Will they misread Technorati's label. On the other hand, maybe there is a fairly good correlation between popularity and authority. Hmmmm.

You really get the feeling of OVERLOAD when looking at Topix. I followed a few links and found some interesting articles and comments. One article really peaked my interest about a school putting a camera in the bathroom. I added it as a bookmark in MyYahoo. It seems that Topix focuses on the news and comments, rather than following individual's blogs. You can see how much Web 2.0 has spread within media!!

Trying to Catch up--#8

I've been using RSS for some time, so this was nothing new. However, Bloglines was new to me. While I like to pull all of my Web 2.0 life together in one place (I use MyYahoo), I liked Bloglines enough to want to use it too. I figure I can fill it with feeds that are pure fun (where I don't need to look at them all the time). I added feeds such as National Geographic Animal and Nature News and Flickr Photos Tagged "College Point".

I also like the folders you can create for your feeds, as well as, the tab for clippings.