Thing 15 - Respose to perspectives

In the article titled "To more powerful ways to cooperate," I found WorldCat.org to be quite interesting. I even gave it a quick spin, and found it easy to navigate. It's especially great for genealogists and miscellaneous researchers. Will YPL be joining this?

Thing 14 - Technorati

Technorati's good for searching blogs, but I'm still not convinced about the other offered services. In my opinion, this still falls into the catagory of "Things to do when you have too much time on your hands." I signed up, and added tags, but am still unable to find mine through the search feature. (Maybe its because I'm currently ranked as 3-and-some-odd-millionth!)

Thing 13 - Del.icio.us

Tags are good. Del.icio.us is not.

Thing 12 - Rollyo

I like being able to place a searchbar on my site (or in this case, blog), particularly to enable searching within a page, or several url pages within a mainpage, but I can't see the point in having a seperate link, such as this, leading to another url in which to search. There are so many other wonderful search engines out there that are already linked to such a vast amount of information, I could never be able to compete with that. So I prefer to stick with the biggies.

Thing 11 - LibraryThing

Okay, I like LibraryThing. To be honest, I had my doubts about this, (just another "work" thing for home) but I like it. I can keep track of what I read, booklists I make for other people, as well of knowing what I have in my own collection, accessible from anywhere.

Thing 10 - image generator

This was a difficult step for me, not because of the complexity, but rather the number of tacky generators or ones that simply didn't work properly and that were nothing more than a waste of time. I'm satisfied by this, but I still feel that it would have taken less time and yet given me the same results had I generated it myself through any photo program (or even "paint" or "word" for that matter!). But, I must admit, although most of this is not a challenge to me as it is really just an introduction to new sites, I am however learning more about html, when, how, and why to use it. Such as the case with this pic.

Have you learned to resize an image without stretching the pixels through html? See...now that's fun and educational!

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