Posting using Google Docs: One thing I realized after working on the del.icio.us project is that I way too many logons and passwords. I am wondering how others keep track of all these. Even when you try to keep a fairly consistant logon and password, this is often defied by system requirements and systems (mainly UK's) where you have to change your password periodically. My terrible system of little notes and pieces of paper in a folder has reached its limit of usefulness!!

My other thought is that I certainly wish that I had purchased Google stock when it first went public. Wow, they are into everything. They went from a company name to a verb in only a few short years. I put their RSS feed on my bloglines. I am liking the ease of getting into del.icio.us, however, and may try their feed system also.

Tagging
I must say that it is a little ironic to be writing about tagging when my name is Tag. I actually had set up a delicious account previously but I pretty much had not done much with it. So after completing Lesson 5, I think I understand this a lot more and can see how you can "connect" with others with similar interests as well as be able to locate your favorite internet sites when you are not at your desk. My account on del.icio.us is taheis.

Wikis

I am glad to finally know what the word 'wiki' means! OK, I set up my wiki. Rick and Susan and I are working on a presentation for the College of Medicine Grand Rounds in April and I decided to try using a wiki for working on this. The address for the wiki is: http://whatclinsneedtoknow.pbwiki.com. That is short for our working title for the program What Clinicians Need to Know about the Library in the Internet Age. I invited Rick and Susan to join the wiki. (Susan had invited me to join her wiki that is all about clinical medical librarians. I am trying to think of something to post to it. Seems like a wiki with no work is pwetty woanly.) So we will see if this helps in doing this group project.

I am enjoying my RSS feeds also and coming up with new blogs every day that I want to add.

Also ran across a "blicki", a blog that you can post to. ??

Learning Stuff

And that answered my last question....how do you know what is happening on blogs you like. Now I know! I have set up some feeds and can now keep up with Orangette. It was a little discouraging, just when I thought I was getting to know things, when I subscribed to one of the library blog sites and was confronted with the terms tags and cloud tags. I clearly do not know what those are. Maybe we will be learning it later. Meanwhile, back to Orangette. I made her lemon yogurt cake and it was wonderful. I also ordered some books she recommended in her store. They were not quite as wonderful but they were interesting.

I also subscribed to wired and slate as I have often gone to those sites to read recommended articles. Guess I will explore some more possible feeds. Don't know that I am ready for flickr feeds yet. But I am learning!

Thanks to our great Staff Development Committee and all they are organizating for us. I could actually work full time just on developing--if I only had time!