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RSS & newsreader coolness

So, this is the first 'assignment' that I haven't been completely familiar with. I have to say, it's pretty cool. I have heard of RSS feeds, but never really investigated them on my own. I had my own little system for sites that I visit daily - a folder in my Favourites. But bloglines is useful because it's all in one place, shows when there are new posts, and there's also no advertising. The page looks oddly plain and boring though, took some getting used to. I'm so used to the bright, blinking and otherwise annoying ads on the internet... so it was strange without it.

Making an account with bloglines was straighforward and at the end they gave me the option to subscribe to some of their 'top blogs'(I think it was called that). So I picked out a few (movie ratings, weather etc.) just to see what would happen. As it turns out, they were added to my feeds right away, without any confusion or problems. Impressive.

I added the Library 2.0 feed, and a few blogs so I can keep up with what other ppl are posting. Realising it was easypeasy, I checked out some of the sites I go to on a regular basis and check to see if they offered feeds. Many of them did. Both copy+pasting and the little orange icon are fast and easy to use.

So I found out that all my lovely celebrity gossip sites have feeds. As well as some of my favourite Harry Potter sites. I also added iTunes top 25 songs, and Movie6 feed (of of my fav movie streaming sites).

As far as the feed searching sites: topix, Syndic8, feedster etc. I don't really think I'll use those very often. I already have enough sites to check up on. Maybe on a rainy day I will investigate more... but for now, Ill stick to the feeds I have. I did check them out and I think Syndic8 and feedster are both reasonably easy to search and navigate. I probably won't ever use topix because it's all new related and stuff... and I'm just not really into that.

Well I'm off to read a chapter or two of Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows (for the second time) because I'm awesome.

Oh-- and my poll. I was totallllly right w/ my predictions! BUT I won't tell you anything. You have to read it. (I'm talking to you Sharon... and Nadia. lol)

Zoe

Zoe

I looked at some of the other blogs and it seems to me like a lot of people are posting pictures of their dogs. I thought I'd post one of my dog. This picture of my dog Zoe is hilarious! She looks crazy... I got her all hyper and then shoved a camera in her face. (She's normally camera shy. Or at least has a curious look on her face.)

Poll

So I added a poll.

I know how much you alllll want to vote. (Especially Sarah, right?)

More Harry Potter

So, I'm sticking with the Harry Potter theme as it is a very special month for HP fans. I saw the new movie (Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix) last night. Of course, I reserved tickets... and went to the theatre after work so I could wait in line for a good seat. Chris was like fourth in line - very impressive.

The movie was my favourite so far... they actually managed to fit a lot of the book in. I'd be interested to see if someone who hasn't read the book knows what's going on though. The biggest disapointment for me was the death of Sirius. (If you haven't read that far in the series, HAHA.) I cried when I read the book! You'd think that the movie would tug at my heartstrings... but unfortunately it didn't. So that wasn't really well-done. But over-all a good movie. :)

Oh right, what was I supposed to write about?? ...okay, my 'experience'

Well, I use photobucket (a similar site to Flickr) on a regular basis so I didn't have any trouble figuring it out. It was annoying having to make a yahoo email though. (Another account that I will never use.)

And, 'the topic of technology'... well I was talking to Joan about this today. It's strange for me that this stuff is completely new to some people. I guess I've grown up with it, but I really thought that most people were at least somewhat familiar with all that the Internet has to offer. I can't imagine going through all this never having done most of it before... it would be prettttty confusing.

Okay, I think that's enough. BigBrother is going to be on soon. (I don't want any comments on my guilty pleasure, okay?) Byeeee

First postie

Well, here's my first post of my new blog. Hopefully this Library 2.0 thing won't be to complicated and I'll win the laptop after sweeping everyone off their feet with my Internet savvy-ness. YEAH I said it. I can write whatever I want to... even words that aren't real.

Anyways, I've never really been one for blogs. I'm familiar with them, read other people's blogs (when they're going on an exciting trip or something) but I can never really post in them for any length of time. I'm more of a facebook fan. It's my time-waster of choice.

Oh- the title of my blog is a quote said by Dumbledore. :) If you don't know who Dumbledore is... get out of my blog!!!!

I would like to talk about how EXCITED I AM about Harry Potter. I've been waiting for this month for everrrrr, and now that it's here I'm not sure that I'm ready for the last book. (The movie this month is just a bonus.) It will be the end of guessing what's going to happen next because it will all be over. (Don't get me going about how it will all end...)

Yes, I think that's enough rambling. More later.