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Originally uploaded by daodung1411

I hope I've been able to add this picture of Galaxy 2168177 to my blog. I'm looking forward to adding some of the pictures I took while visiting Roger in Buenos Aires. But for now this is as much as I can handle.

Salt Lake City Public Library's Wiki

I've added Level 2 staff to the library's wiki. Feeling my oats!
Ronni

Library Thing

How cool is Library Thing!! I love it. I've added my bookshelf to my blog.

Technorati and Blog Tags

I haven't had much time to explore fully Technorati but what I was able to do made me want to come back to it when time allows. I liked the Technorati Tour but I was unable to get to a page that looked like that. It showed the following headings that didn't come up when I clicked on the Technorati link: Discover, Top Blog Posts, What's the Buzz. Maybe I needed to set up an account. I didn't do that, nor did I claim my blog. I did explore Popular Blogs and in Boing Boing (the most popular site) I search "Astronomy" and all that came up were two blogs, one containing photos of owls taken by an astronomy student, and a totally cool site about the "oldest accurate roadmap of Britain" made in 1360 possibly using and astrolabe, an instrument used by astronomers and navigators. Okay, I realize I'm a geek, and maybe there are no blogs on astronomy and that is as good as it gets. But for the most popular site I was expecting some cool amateur astronomy photos, comet sightings or blogs on string theory. Not there. Oh well. Still and all I'm intrigued and I'm warming up to tag clouds. Still I think it's more for browsing, which is fun, but when you really need information a google search or wikipedia gets to it faster.

Tagging

I like the idea that I can access my tags on any computer and I see good potential for the library to tag sites with information that we frequently need to access. In general though del.icio.us gives me a headache. I don't have the patience to browse through it, at least not when I'm needing to access info quickly. I tried entering a search for information on Astronomy and it took forever to load. In fact I don't know if it ever did. I gave up after a couple of minutes. I'm probably not doing it correctly. I hope to find time to explore tagging more fully, but it's time to move on for now.