Technorati: Again

So, this is a google for all blogs that are out there. It is kinda neat. When I searched around for things, I couldn't find how to search in the blog directory... but there were about 8500 more results for "Learning 2.0" in the Blog Posts than in the Tags. This makes sense. I went to the popular place, and just in the top 10 I found some interesting things, so that was fun. I tried to do the optional thing, really I did, but it was too confusing. I went to the instructions for how to set up your blog to Ping technorati, and I couldn't find the screen it showed for my life. It kinda irritated me. Anyway, this is a useful tool. I can't really contribute to it, and I don't know if a lot of other people doing the 2.0 will use this much, but I actually see myself using this occasionally. Anyway... yeah.

Delicious

Ok, this is kind of weird. I get it, sure. Do I think that it benefits me in any way? Not really. I can see how a whole bunch of random, uncredible sources (See: Wikipedia) have identified a bunch of websites. I don't really go around looking for people's opinions before visiting websites anyway, kinda bogs the whole experience down, dontcha think? Anyway, here are the answers to those questions:

1) 2
2) www.spl.org, www.spokanelibrary.org
3) 2
4) oanh.tran1964
5) September 19, 2008
6) Trick Question, the last thing that they bookmarked was on September 30, 2008.
7) 0

I hope I passed!

Rollyo

Hey, this thing is actually a pretty clever little idea. There isn't a lot that I randomly search for on the internet, I more just like to check my couple few sites (See: RSS Feeds). Having said that, this is still pretty neat. I can create a search engine for any site(s) I want, and I really like that. If some website has bunches of information but doesn't have a search bar? You could put that as your only website and make a rollyo for it. Instant easy searching. This really is a neat tool, and I could see it being useful, but I can't really say that I see myself using it a lot in the near future. Oh, yeah, link. Here you go. http://rollyo.com/ssbbveteran/electronics_and_game/
Enjoy.

LibraryThing Thoughts

Ok, so this site... doesn't exactly thrill me. I can put a whole bunch of books up that I like, and other people can do the same thing, then we can look at each others. I think. Anyway, it would make more sense to me just to talk about what books you like with the people that you know. Yes, you will find more people on here, and there is no chance of forgetting a books title, etc. It is still a nice tool, but not exactly one that I can see myself using. It would be cool if you could read the books on this site. Then I would go there all the time. Anyway, here is my link: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/SSBBVeteran
Have fun looking at my 5 minimum books I put up that will probably never get updated ^_^

Image Generators

These things are hilarious ^_^ I went to the Greek God one found here: http://www.generatorland.com/generators/greek_god_generator_gl.php#
You can just keep clicking on the "God Me" button, and the results are ROFL worthy. I mean come on, Selous, God of Cross Dressing and Oral Hygeine? Heropompus, God of Croutons and Dustbunnies? Melpoaia, Goddess of Hopscotch and Vodka Drinks? Those made my day. Next up is the movie generator. http://www.alldaycoffee.net/mpaa_movie_rating_generator.php
Keep hitting the "Try Again" button, and laugh hysterically. I mean come on, a movie being PG-13 because Eddie Murphy in a fat suit, Dan Akroyd after letting himself go, and Paris Hilton are all in it? It isn't as good as the greek god one, but it is fun. However, a lot of the things seem to get re-used a bunch. So... these aren't really image generators. Hang on. OOh! Okay, here we go. The babymaker.
http://www.vw.com/vwhype/babymaker/en/us/
You put in two pictures, and it shows you what the baby would look like. Is it accurate? Probably not. Is it "tasteful"? Not really. Does it take a while? Yeah... Is it hilarious? You bet. Maybe I'm just weird, but I searched on the internet, and used two guy's faces... I recovered from laughing in about 5 minutes.

RSS Finders

Hmm, okay, so here goes. I think that the bloglines search thing works great. It is good how you can choose between if your searching for news or for feed names, it just works well. Topix? Not for me. It is kind of interesting that it can look for blogs, but I don't really care about random blogs, I just want to look for information. I might as well be searching on google. Syndic8 was the best for if you wanted to find feeds focused on your information needs. It works well. Only problem? It doesn't seem to discard feeds that haven't been used in a very long time. One was trying to tell me about new Gamecube games that were coming out. Pfft. Technorati seems to be just a little bit more focused than Topix. This one actually I would prefer to google though. So, overall? I actually think that the bloglines search tool works the best. Having multiple search options, it comes back with current results, it is simple, it is already in the website you are at... yeah, I think it wins. Anyway, that's what I found!

RSS Time

I have to say I like RSS feeds. I do a lot of web surfing, and this helps to cut down on the time involved considerably, so that I have more time to play games ^_^ By the way, Bike Mania 2 on the left of my blog? Great time waster. Super addictive. Anyway, yeah RSS readers are cool. You can get a whole bunch of information quickly, and you only have to go to one site. If I had dial-up speed internet, this would be a necessity. Even with hi-speed, it's still cool. However, I still visit nintendo.joystiq regularly anyway, because of the kind of atmosphere that the site has. It's cozy. Oh, and here is my bloglines thingy.
http://www.bloglines.com/public/SSBBVeteran
It took me a couple tries to get this working correctly, so I thought I would put up the things that you need to do.
1) You must create a username. You can do that if you go to bloglines, click on "Account" and then on "Blog Settings". There is a box that says "Username". You need to make one in order for this to work.
2) You have to set your bloglines account to be able to share. Did you stay in the "Blog Settings" place? Underneath the Username box, down two boxes, is an option that says "Share my Blogroll". You must click on the button that says "Yes, Publish my Blogroll".
I hope that helped!