Bunnies!!!

These are not my bunnies but they are cute!

Quest 12: Tech Trek Finale

I am a big Youtube nut. Youtube is now owned by Google and just like Blogger, users can log in to their Youtube accounts with their Gmail addresses. It makes the passwords easy to remember. I have recently discovered "book trailers", advertisements and films about books, on Youtube. Some are in English and some are in other languages and I just enjoy them for their video. Here is the Youtube book trailer for Neil Gaiman's book, Coraline.



Podcasting is interesting. I have not gotten hooked on any particular podcasts yet. I had a Podcast experience this weekend while messing around on Second Life. I was on Info Island and I wandered into Mystery Manor and I was "interacting" with stuff and ended up listening to someone reading a podcast of a mystery story courtesy of Second Lifer, Max Batra.

Zoho part 2: Follow the Script

Quest 11: Zoho Tricks

I wrote my post on Zoho and have been unsucessfully trying to transfer it to Blogger. I gave up and cut and pasted and that didn't really work. . I just could not get Zoho and Blogger to connect. The little green Zoho wheel just kept spinning...and spinning....and spinning...

I ended up using another Zoho feature. I selected "Publish" and then selected "Make Public" from the drop-down menu and then clicked on the "Publish" button in the command box that popped up. Another box popped up with a script aka a bracketed chunk of html that I copied and pasted into the above blog post (using the html tab). If you don't select "HTML" mode and past it on Blogger in the "Compose" mode, you just see the script text without the brackets instead of your post.

I will have to play with it some more to figure out how to make full use of Zoho. I also want to look at using Google Docs because Blogger is a Google app and I hope they mesh better than Zoho and Google.

Para Para Dancing

Harvest Moon

A picture is worth a 1000 words! Happy Halloween!

Tech Trek Catch-Up: Quests 6-9

Banned Books Trading Card, originally uploaded by my_book_house.

This my official Tech Trek Progress Log.
Quest 6: Part 1 - I am now, quite frankly, a Del.icio.us crazy, mad taggin' fool. I also have a Library Thing, with a badge posted in the sidebar. I think that key thing about using the Del.icio.us tags is not to use too many. I was using every possible tag for stuff at the start and now I think it might be better to just use fewer tags. For example, the tags "blog", "blogs", and "blogging" could be represented by any one of these tags and used consistently for greater effectiveness.
Part 2 - I have used Technorati and it is really interesting but I think for personal use, I like Mashable better. Technorati seems offer more in the way of information about other blogs/sites linking to yours and sites that are "hot". I tried Technorati with MySpace and it did not work. I couldn't get the MySpace page to link up with the Technorati account. Technorati worked well with Blogger. I guess I like Mashable better because I am more interested in a way to organize my social networking accounts than feedback on whether anyone is looking at them.
Quest 7: I am a Flickr nut. End of story. (See trading card above.)

Quest 8: Social networking is fun. I have a MySpace and now I have Facebook. MySpace is sort of like the mall or the fair where everyone is hanging out, people watching. Facebook is more personal and more about relationships with people you actually know. I like the freakiness and diversity of MySpace and friending other librarians, libraries, and authors. Facebook is good, too. I like the "message wall" and the minimalist design, which doesn't distract from the purpose of Facebook; connecting with people you know (or that know people you know).

Quest 9: I am in the process of creating an anime/manga wiki (with lots of help from Amanda Holling, at Main), CCPLotaku. Staff interested in anime and manga are welcome to join this wiki. Just send me an e-mail and I will send you the password. I am really not sure where I am going with this or where it will end up. Basically, I just want to learn more about manga, anime, and Japanese culture. The biggest thing about setting up the wiki has been the fact that the layout is different from other sites where I have accounts. The multiple pages of the wiki have been a little bit of a challenge and negotiating them has been the biggest thing that I have had to figure out. The fact that I selected an "educational" type wiki at first was also an issue. I had to write the PBwiki folks and get it changed by them. The PBwiki FAQs and forums are very helpful, though, and seem to answer a lot of common questions.

Blog Action Day

The earth is really important to me because it is my home. I share it with a lot of other folks. I think that last statement is the most important. The earth is something we share while we are here and then the sharing continues because, hopefully, we leave it in as good a shape as we found it, and ideally, better because we cared for it while we were here. Peace. : )

Not Missing Links: So Easy...

I gave this blog a make-over by ditching my sidebar links list in favor of a Del.icio.us tag cloud and a Mashable badge and by adding some AV widgets; a Dizzler player and a Youtube video player.

For info on how I downsized my widgets and other tech issues that I have tangled with, check out Mediatopia, my Library 2.0 blog.

Picture of Piltdown Man, famous "missing link" hoax.