Thursday, May 1, 2008

Heck no, rati (Thing #6)

I agree with Jeff that I found Technorati's homepage to be on the busy side. I did enjoy browsing around, but felt kind of overwhelmed by it all.

When searching for blogs relating to 'libraries' or 'librarians', I found some interesting stuff.
  • The Annoyed Librarian, for example, has a novel approach to library-related stress, found here. Her wit was at times way too acerbic for me, but I had to laugh at some of it.
  • Foxy Librarian reassured me that MCPL is not the only library to experience the phenomenon of poop in the stacks.
  • For any of our Fontana bloggers who may still feel intimated by the whole blogging experience, one of the library blogs I found linked to a pretty great tutorial with step-by-step explanations of Blogger features, found here.
  • The Well Dressed Librarian is holding a competition for the 100 Most Beautiful Librarians. I'm already scheming about who I want to nominate!
  • Finally, speaking of my old pals, RSS feeds, I also stumbled across a small article on them. I can see the benefit of subscribing to Google Reader for our patrons, more so than for whiny, complaining me who wants shiny, pretty websites. Using a public access computer would mean, obviously, that they haven't saved bookmarks, so it would be a simple matter of logging into Google Reader and seeing updates to their favorite sites. I get it, I do.

2 comments:

WDL said...

awwww. Thanks for the props kid.

Have you sent in your nomination for yourself? There is no rule against that!

rock on beautiful librarian,
WDL

TinaKristina said...

Hmmm... will there be a calendar?

I can't wait to visit the rest of the sites you found... which, incidentally, is what I should be doing myself. But reading everyone else's blog is so much more interesting than doing my own work!