Zoho

I h ave tried Zoho and found that I do not like it. I am not sure that I like the thought of a variety of people I have never met before being able to change what I might write there.

However, I think it is somewhat like PBwiki in that it could have a use for a business or classroom setting.

I cannot get it to send the page over to this blog, so here is the page.

Here is the page from Zoho.

Learning the Value of Blogs!

While checking into one of the blogs I liked—The Guardian newspaper in London—I discovered a new book site devoted to offering excerpts from books, flash fiction and poetry. Ursula LeGuin is one of the founding members.

Needless to say, I have added it to my list.

It is called the Book View Cafe

And now on to what I am supposed to be discussing here.

I enjoyed Library 2. It seems that a library should change with the times or even ahead of the times. Language must change, adapt and develop in order to stay alive, so it makes sense that libraries, these cathedrals of language, should also change, adapt and develop in order to stay alive and be of service to the public.

After checking out the blogs from various libraries in the country, I have to say that this looks like the way for Jacksonville to get people interested in the library and what we have to offer.

The SJCPL Subject Guides interested me, since I had a customer who wanted to know if she could find out what fiction we had that was set in the 18th century. A blog with that type of information could be helpful to those who simply want to read historical novels of a specific period. Fairfax County Library has a list of popular fiction, although I noticed that the readers did not post any reviews!

JaxCat and LibraryThing

OK, that was an easy one! I think I got the JaxCat right, although I have not checked it to see if it actually works.

The LibraryThing was easy, too. I picked five books, as instructed. Two of them I have waiting for me, but the other three have been read. It reminds me of the tee shirts that were around a little while ago: "So many books and so little time."

The hard part will be getting a link to my library, so let me go explore that, and I shall come back.

OK. I am back and here it is: My library!

Now for the picture generator game. Very good fun, indeed. As you can see, I created a poster for the class I will be teaching for the next 10 weeks. I shall keep you informed of the progress of my students and, of course, my gradual decline into insanity when I find out they can't tell a noun from a verb.

Supposedly the JaxCat is on the page, so let us go and have a squint at it.

No sign of it, although there are a couple of crossed spanners or something, so click on the top one and the coding for the gadget will appear to show that I tried.
Yes, I did, I really did!

(Added later) I did get it there, but you may have to hit the refresh button to see it. I tried to resize it following the instructions, but it did not work.

Party Cat

Party Cat
Originally uploaded by Blethers

He is ready for the fun at the Jacksonville Landing!


My thanks to Kema for showing me some of the tricks of using Flickr. When I have more time, I shall investigate some more, because it looks like fun.