Thing #10a - another randomness generator

I like this random image generator too. Design your own Delft plate! http://www.royaldelft.com/index.cfm? For some reason, though, my plate border did not show up on my blog, only the text. There's probably a way around this, but how often am I going to be pasting delft plates into my blog? I guess we'll find out. I love that you can send a delft plate e-card. How random is that? Sometimes I worry that I worship too much at the altar of randomness.

The Generator blog (http://generatorblog.blogspot.com), from the Learning 2.0 resource list, is a nifty resource for all kinds of excellent time wasting. I'm almost afraid to check out the Star Trek related ones.

Great Delft Plate! My plate post is taking over my blog! Don't know how to fix it, don't know if I care to invest the time. I'm going to keep moving, and hope it doesn't eat New York.

I am sorry to say that the Delft Plate ultimately had to be removed. It was covering up the newly added picture of Asta, and that was not acceptable. Asta! - ed. 12/6/07

Thing #10 - play around with an online image generator

Ok, this isn't an image generator, it's a Random German Name generator. I love it for its relative uselessness and randomness, and because German names are fun! Hartmut Willert, for example! The German name you see at the bottom changes each and every time you visit this blog. If that's not incentive, I don't know what is!

Check it out at http://realnamecreator.alexjonas.de/

Thing #9 - Locate a few useful library-related blogs and/or newsfeeds

I was not tremendously impressed with the search tools designed to help find blog posts and other feeds. Seemed like the usual heap of junk that you find with any search, or maybe worse. Perhaps I was not specific enough. Just dawdling around, looking for something as general as "library-related" may not be the best approach. Anyhow, using these tools, I did not find any useful library-related blogs and/or newsfeeds. Maybe I just need to play with them a little more.

On a positive note, I like Feedster's homepage, with that nice green background. Also, of all the things we have explored so far, I think RSS is the thing I am most likely to continue using. Pretty handy.

Thing #8 - Learn about RSS feeds and setup your own Bloglines newsreader account.

I think it might be easier to setup your own Bloglines newsreader account, and then learn about RSS feeds while experiencing them. It was pretty easy to get things set up, but a lot harder trying to learn what it was without having done it.

In any case, I do rather like having a Bloglines account, and RSS is pretty neat. I don't really read blogs much, nor news online, though, so it's not simplifying my life that much. However, it is quite useful for keeping track of other 23 things blogs, so that's fairly helpful.

When SCPL introduced RSS for tracking new items to the collection, I set up a live bookmark for J Fiction. However, I had forgotten about it for many months, and only now, that we are doing 23 things, have I returned to checking it.

There's probably all sorts of neat things that the library could do with RSS, but I'm not feeling tremendously visionary. All I can say is that I'm less ignorant than before, so that's something.

Addendum to #6 & #7

Delivr Digital Postcards:
http://www.delivr.net/


Enemybook:
http://www.enemybook.info/

Thing #7 - Anything Technology Related that Interests You

Now here's a mashup I can really enjoy. It's for Facebook and it's called Enemybook:

"Enemybook is an antisocial utility that disconnects you

to the so-called friends around you.

Enemybook is a Facebook app that allows you to manage your enemies as well as your friends. With Enemybook you can add people as facebook enemies, specify why they are your enemies, notify your enemies, see who lists you as an enemy, and even become friends with the enemies of your enemies. Ever wanted to "enemy" somebody instead of friend them? Finally you can. This app remedies the one-sided perspective of Facebook.

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer...

Get Enemybook! (facebook account required)"

Excellent, excellent....

Thing #6 - Discover some Flickr Mashups

Mashups are very cool! What a great opportunity for creative new things. The one I really liked was Delivr Digital Postcards. Much like an e-card, but cooler, I think. The photos are really great. I have used it several times since finding it.