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So blogs are supposed to be fresh, nearly daily updates filled with newsy items of things going on around us. If that is true, then I've failed as a blogger. So what?! I'll just reboot and start again. Here are some of the cool things our group checked out since I wrote last:

1. Yes, we discussed Flickr and Picasa. We learned that some of us are gifted with a camera and that I should leave picture taking to my 11 year old aspiring photographer. I also learned that Google has a screen saver that works with your My Photos or with your Flickr or Picasa albums (or the latest coolest RSS on Picasa). Find it at www. pack.google.com and just select the stuff you want.
2. And yes, we discussed RSS feeds. Each of the folks in our group had different experiences locating content and using different readers. One person even set up a ticker to scroll across their desktop. That was cool in theory, but I am too ADD for that to work for me long term! For practice I set up several RSS feeds inside a Yahoo mail account. That does me little good, since that isn't an email account that I view often. My preferred source for the information is my iGoogle portal page. Even though the feed info is limited, it is enough to catch my attention and draw me to click for details. I've set up several news services and blogs inside a specific tab that I check at least daily.
3. LibraryThing - Ok, so maybe this is like Facebook and Myspace for bookjunkies, but do we really need that? Sorry. I just haven't jumped into the social networking pool yet.
4. Rollyo - Interesting, and as a result of using it I found Kayak.com whick in turn led me to xjet.com where I found great prices on non-stop flights to my mom's for the summer, so I guess it's all good. Seriously though, I think I would rather explore the Google Custom Search Engine. http://www.google.com/librariancenter/articles/0705_01.html
5. SurveyMonkey - Since it was play week, we decided to monkey around a bit. Need a quick speaker evalution or customer survey? This is useful even at the "free" level. With an active imagination, some planning and a few bucks a month it becomes a pretty powerful survey and analysis tool.
6. Other technology that is on the verge of creepy:

Microsoft Surface (http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4217348.html)

Google Streets (http://news.com.com/Google+Maps+takes+it+to+the+streets/2100-1038_3-6187254.html?tag=item)