Thing 41! Mashup Your Life.

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There are now many sites to combine different accounts, and I just signed up for a few today. I like FriendFeed for Twitter, and found nine there, but none of my 113 friends from Facebook. Being I already had the Twitter and Delicious accounts on the sidebar, I put the new Lifestream one here. Later, I will probably omit the separate listings, if I decide to keep this, but I do not know how many accounts that I want!

Thing 40! Mashup the Web

Today I tried MANY of the suggested sites for Thing 40.

For MUSIC, I enjoyed searching and saving selections in Pandora.FM. The link for Splice did not work.

For BOOKS, I checked all of the sites listed.

For SOCIAL, I did an account for Ping.fm. It is good to be able to combine account information for Facebook, Delicious and Twitter. I also tried the Lunchbox and Wheel of Food sites. These sites are more useful when using a zip code such as 55423 in the Twin Cities area rather than our local rural zip code which yields no results. As I have not had lunch yet, thinking of the food sites makes me hungry!

Of the PHOTO/FLICKR sites, my favorite is Interestingness. I had fun doing random views of the photos.

For the VIDEO sites, I enjoyed TimeTube where I used Supreme Court as a search topic and now have a reminder when it is updated.

For GOOGLE, I did a search for a neighborhood under Walkable.


Being I had used Big Huge Labs before, I tried new mashup options, and posted a simple Palyvore fashion one below:

Thing 39! Digital Storytelling

Digital Storytelling is fun and can be useful for libraries. I did accounts for Scrapblog and Smilebox, and want to use both later. Both have many options for doing a graduation page. Scrapblog allows downloading of photos already in Facebook, so I did that for a quick page.

Thing 38! Screencasting

I had not done Screencasting before, and see how useful it could be for library webpages and library tutorials. After watching the ten minute Jing video, I downloaded Jing. I also watched the demo for Skitch. ScreenToaster was the last one I looked at, and I registered at the site. I was surprised how easy ScreenToaster was to use, but after the June 20th deadline, I definitely need to work on this THING. I had fun with WORDLE, but whatever I tried there did not upload to my blog, so I just did a screencast of one to add here. There is music on other THINGS near this one, so I did not add music.

Free online screencasting tool

Thing 37! Photo Tales - # 2

Like the previous one, I spent hours on Thing 37, but feel like it was just a start! It will be fun to do some more "polished" photo presentations after I finish all of the Things. After the first 23 Things, I enjoyed using FLICKR and PictureTrail for more presentations. Today I just did a quick video with some of my Washington photos from Spring Break in March. Animoto is fun and easy to use. After that, I used SLIDE for family photos. There are SO many options there that I kept changing my mind on which theme to select. I also want to try One True Media for a montage. Even though these sites are useful for library uses, I am probably thinking more of personal photos, and looking forward to doing something fun with Alaska photos after we return in August. I have done other digital slideshows with music, but just used the options available from the sites that I used today even if not the most appropriate. With Image Mosaic Generator, I used a sunflower photo which I added to the blog, but it looks much better in the full size. CaptionBubble.com is also a fun site.

Thing 37! Photo Tales - Family Photos

Thing 36 ! Comic Relief # 3

ago answer blog book checked com comic comments congress dc delicious enjoyed explore facebook finding follow found free fun http interesting kayh labels library link minnesota mla news online pages people places plan pm posted questions reading reference relief shelfari sites state things travel twitter updates washington west widget year

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I have spent WAY too much time on THING 36, so need to move on . . . A newspaper headline that I generated was added to my blog, and I did a Dewey Decimal number for my name. I tried most of the comic strip generators, and had fun with one for children. WORDLE was one of my favorites for this thing, and I plan to return to that again. It will probably be useful for library applications and maybe for making signs. I was amazed how the same information could generate so many different results. The tiny label maker was another fun one. Now I better move on as June 20th approaches . . .