Mammoth, snow, and blogging

Today I am in Mammoth with Jeff and Amy and since I
slept in the car on the way up, I only needed about 4
hours of sleep during the night. So, 5:30 am, the
coffee was on, the fire was crackling, and the
wireless was spinning! I now have an account in
Technorati (to track my blogs) and 43 things (ok,
raising chickens and beekeeping started my life list),
and have been playing for 3 hours with other things I
have not had time to explore. To paraphrase Tennyson,
"Ah, a woman's reach should exceed her grasp, or
what's a heaven for?"

p.s. Today is Sunday and I went into my blog and tried out some of the features of Technorati. It is fantastic! Readers can now put in a topic and search my blog (try it, type in a topic like digitization) and it takes you to Technorati and lists all the entries under that topic. I needed something like this myself since now my blog is quite extensive and I wanted to organize it a bit. Sweet!
Don't know about Technorati? click here for the Wikipedia defintion and links

43 things....how am I doing?

Stephen Abram wrote an article in Information Today (February 2006) called "43 things I might want to do this year."

He adapted this concept from a website called 43 things: What do you want to do with your life in which you can track all those long range and short range goals. Stephen's list is one that I am personally adopting...

1. Take a digital picture with a camera and/or phone and download it to my PC.
2. Register at Blogger and start a blog. Post every once in awhile and add a photo.
3. Register at Bloglines and aggregate my blog and RSS subscriptions into one reader. Check out what other blogs align with my interests.
4. Look at Facebook and see the next generation of social networking
5. Set up a Flickr account and post a few of my digital photos online. Tag
and annotate them.
6. Look at LibraryElf and see the potential for personal library tools.
7. Check out LibraryThing and catalogue a few books from your personal
collection.
8. Register at MSN Photo Album and build an album to share with my
friends, family or colleagues.
9. Check out Myspace and see how this service has become so huge
globally.
10. Have some fun with the links on the Generator Blog.
For more, go to his article at http://tinyurl.com/p3vow
Join me in this fun adventure!

Visit to Mount San Antonio College (Mt. Sac)

Dona and I headed out on our weekly "College Trek" to visit with colleagues at Mt. Sac. Although I have been on the campus before, I have not had a chance to visit the library and learning resources center. We met with the Kerry Stern, the Dean of Library and Learning Resources and discussed my sabbatical leave, her responsbilities as Dean, the digitization agenda for colleges, a new Library, and campus changes. Dona also spoke to her about their new Reading Center. We then took a tour of the Library and Learning Resources building and then while Dona was interviewing the Reading Center people, I took a tour of the campus. It is a campus in transition and I was so envious of all their space. Beautiful sycamore trees, nice coffee commons, Home Cooking cafe as well as a traditional cafeteria, fun bookstore and a new Student Services Building that is still not finished.