Blogging in 2007

I recently joined up for the Central Jersey Regional Library Cooperative,CJRLC, Tech Challenge. I have to set up a Blog and Flickr accounts, subscribe to bloglines, set-up a RSS feeds, learn about Web 2.0 and Library 2.0, find out how to use LibraryThing, Google Maps, Delicious or Squidoo and finally teach someone else how to use one of those. I'm psyched and nervous. It seems like a lot, but in reality most of these sites seem to be connectedin one way or another. I don't think it will be as hard once I get started and hopefully lots of fun.

I set up this blog account back in 2005. I had only blogged on this sight three times until yesterday. I didn't even think it still existed. So yesterday I logged in and had to go through three separate log ins. I set up a Google account to get in and then claimed my very old blog. My old blog just looked sad. It had the cute dots, but that was it. I went to the Template tag to see how I could spruce up the blog and was overwhelmed. There are so many options. I added a picture of myself, a list of my favorite books, added the daily news and a link to Potter Puppet Video from You Tube! I am going to keep adding elements, that is what they are called "page elements".

You may ask why now? Why if you have had a blog for so long, why haven't you blogged before? I email plain and simple. Some of my friends get mad at me because I send long and verbose emails at least once a week. These could be blogs, but I figured that I just wanted a chosen few to see them. I did not care about the world seeing them, but now I do! I want the world to read my rants and raves. I hope you like them!