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#10 Technorati etc

I pinged Technorati immediately after completing "9 continued", pinged Ping-o-Matic's most popular, then bookmarked the Ping-o-Matic page using del.icio.us. Now I have to wait. I'll check back later.
Update:
After 4PM I searched the first half dozen Ping-o-Matic sites, but no sign of my blog entry. Judging from the post times of the search results containing my keywords (5 hours was the most recent entry), it might be a good idea to wait until tomorrow before I check again.
Update:
I was curious, came back to try one more, the last site on the list, and... IceRocket just came through for me! Nice! 2hours and 46 min. How exciting! I can consider myself published! Still nothing on Technorati or Blogdigger, but let's just leave it at that.

Del.icio.us continued

Useful, no doubt. I opened an account for this exercise starting with UCSC related bookmarks. I can see how we could utilize it at the VRC. Some patrons seem overwhelmed when we show them our extensive online list of digital image resources. To create a shorter list when needed we could pull specific links, group them del.icio.us.ly, and patrons would still be able to access them online from anywhere. Or we could recommend that patrons use del.icio.us to create their own lists of bookmarks according to their specific needs, even find additional resources by looking at other users' lists (e.g. ARTstor: "saved by 123 other people")

#9 Del.icio.us Part 1, Bloglines/Feeds revisited

Playing with it...

On a detour, I added shortcuts leading to Lee's and Danielle's blogs for opposite ends of the 2.0 spectrum, and Sarah's for balance. I learned the hard way that it's a good idea to look at other participants blogs instead of blindly plowing through the exercises, lonely laboring under the wrong impression that nobody's actually reading my collected works of yawn inducing yadayada. Here's some more yada harking back to Bloglines (Jeez, bold is work, the one occasion when I wish I had a PC, so I wouldn't have to HTML every friggin time I'd like something bold, or italics, or crossed out, or...):

When I added the del.icio.us Learning 2.0 feed to the sidebar using the blogger template I noticed that it only displayed a given number of headlines separately, leading straigh to individual articles, not to an index or frontpage. The same turned out to be true for my Spiegel feed. Darn! I hadn't noticed before! Instead of me Dummy trying to wrestle the blogger template, I handed the URLs over to Bloglines to fix the problem for me. Took care of it in no time. Now I'm sold. Viva Bloglines!

O, and I changed "Die Edeltraud". I did not wish death upon poor Edeltraud; "die" is simply & less nefariously German for "the".

Last word before moving on to the next exercise

Meanwhile I have been informed by my colleagues, that although I spend a good part of my waking life on the computer, where I indulge in all kinds of what I consider geeky activities & treats, I’m apparently still sadly under-qualified and therefore not worthy of the title “geek.” Ergo, I should not use the G-word; ergo it had to go, too.
The tongue-in-cheek tone is not considered entirely appropriate either.
For simplicity’s sake, let me just go all the way and vow that from now on I will vigorously suppress any misguided and pathetic attempt at humor or lightheartedness (while taking the exercises seriously). Let me be bone dry and positive & play it safe. (Icons courtesy of echosphere)

All better?

Inquires the geek of the geek. (To me, it's a term of endearment. Please don't make me cross it out, too!) I quick-fixed the last post, hoping whoever chose to voice his/her (inadvertently) hurt feelings anonymously elsewhere, gets the message. (Why not comment right here, by the way, to give me a chance to comment on the comment?) I'm a nice person, a friendly creature with a sense of humor, and I apologize from the bottom of my heart if I'm lacking the skill to convey that. The last post was not supposed to be dead serious.

#8 Second Life, Part 1, 2, 3

I watched the 3 recommended YouTube clips, read the 3 recommended articles, went to the Second Life site, looked around & watched a couple of Video Tutorials. And I have to say... C’mon!!!

You can try to justify it any old way you want, but let’s face it, it will always boil down to one simple fact: Second Life is about gaming, geek escapism from the real world. I can see how you one might feel it offers great opportunities to reach people in a whole new sphere, but the prerequisite will always be that you one (yes, you too, librarian pretending to undertake these adventures in the virtual world for strictly educational purposes) thoroughly enjoys spending lots of time in the animated realm of a game in the first place. That’s Second Life’s raison d’etre, the axiom; everything else only follows from there. If you one wants to join in and build schools and libraries there, excited about the details of the process, good for you one!
From my perspective, it’s the geek version of going to a developing country on a Peace Corp mission. I commend you one for doing so, but personally, I don’t feel any particular affinity to the country you one is so passionate about. It looks primitive to me. If you one is attracted to the culture, so you one wants to go connect with the populace and hold hands in support while they're taking steps towards literacy, one should go for it! Just don’t expect me to follow because it’s the thing to do. I beg to differ. I don’t believe it’s crucially important. It’s one among many countries in a big world in the vast expanse of the universe. It’s a game. A game by any other name… Participation will always be limited to those, who are drawn to games, who are attracted to the peculiar aesthetic and very specific possibilities games have to offer.

#6 & #7. Dark Angel circeled a bit, then entered My Space

You can visit her here, but she doesn't feel very talkative right now.
Let's see if her library friends want to accept her as a friend anyway...
O yes, I almost forgot, before she touched ground in MySpace, she took some rounds viewing Facebook, Hi5 (similar looking), Ning (promising, actually, if only I had more time...), and Bebo. The latter nice, clean looking, compared to MySpace, which seems to become ever seedier to a point it almost feels sticky to log in. For this exercise, thanks a bunch for the pointers!