# 12 Rollyo

I've had a look around Rollyo. I think this tool will be very useful. At work I (attempt to!) maintain some bibliotherapy lists for kids. Rollyo will help target my searching to relevant sites, thereby enabling me to search more effectively and efficiently and so helping me to keep my lists updated - a job for work - but for now (at home) I've just created a quick searchroll on a topic that has greatly interested me for many years - Australian children's literature, I've added another searchroll on recipes and added my searchroll to my blog.

# 11 The Librarything

This tool is lots of fun, and useful too!
I've signed up to Librarything, catalogued some books, written a reveiw, joined a group and linked my library to my blog! I would love to see this tool used for our 'Recent arrivals' link on our catalogue.
Also, did you notice the new header on my blog? I used the image generator 'Blog Header' to create the image. I've done a little rearranging of the layout too.

Another fun image generator

Another fun image generator is the Captioner. It is just a little frustrating that you cannot change the size of the speech bubble.
Here is a photo I took of a puppet show at a church camp I went to on the weekend.

# 10 Image generators

I am having fun playing with the image generators. One of my favourites is Mosaic maker. Here are a couple of mosaics I created from photos I took while on holiday recently in the Tarra Bulga National Park, South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.

#9 Finding feeds

I've finally succeeded in making my blogroll public - that was tricky! (see links)

I've explored the search tools listed and added a weather alert to my bloglines account. Don't want to add too many more as I am starting to feel overwhelmed! but it's good to be aware of how to locate feeds. Personally, I liked Feedster best as it searches more than just blogs.

#8 Make life "really simple" with RSS & a newsreader

It's taken me a while to get my head around this newsreader stuff but I think I am getting the idea. I have set up a bloglines account and have subscribed to several feeds - news, comics, blogs and book related stuff. I am looking forward to being able to keep up with the updates to these sites and can see how the newsreader will make this much simpler and more time efficient.

Now I'm attempting to 'share' my feeds by creating a public link to them. I am really not sure how this works but here goes... Try clicking on this link

Well, obviously life is not that simple... my blogroll doesn't seem to work. HELP!

I can't figure it out - it's back to work tomorrow, so I'll have to worry it another day!

Finally figured it out - blogroll now public! (Click on link above.)