Library Thing

Like many other Web 2.0 phenomenons, I was addicted to Library Thing for a brief period. I spent a lot of time cataloging my books, but quickly lost interest and haven't touched it since. I think it's a great idea...I just see little use for it in my personal life.

Image Generators

I'm a little addicted to this Meez thing at the moment. To the right you will see my latest masterpiece...

RSS

I already use Google Reader so I didn't sign up for a Bloglines account. I mainly use it for news but I do subscribe to some fun stuff like Colbert Report videos. I also have a feed for YouTube videos but I try to stay away from that one because one video will lead to another, and another, and another......My favorite library feed is the Librarians' Internet Index weekly list of web sites http://www.lii.org/pub/news/113.

Copyright Conundrums

With all the sharing brought on by Web 2.0 copyright issues are confusing me more than ever. I was glad to see that Flickr does a pretty good job of explaining the different types of restrictions applied to the photos.
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

Flickr

Wow! There sure are some talented photographers out there! I could spend hours looking at pictures.
As for mashups....Retrievr is pretty cool. You create a sketch of anything you want and it matches it with images on Flickr. I wouldn't say it works well, but it is fun to play with.
Trippermap is a lot of fun (and more functional). You can put a world map on your blog or website and if your photos are tagged with place names they'll show up on the map. Check out Last Known Location to see how it works.