Just When You Thought ...

Finish the sentence as you like. (... you had all the social networking you needed; ... the internet was driving you crazy; ... the internet was driving Marf crazy ...)
Are you troubled by too many social networks to post to? Do you spend all your time making the same boring posts to Twitter, jaiku, Pownce, Facebook, plaxo, tumblr, (deep breath) Frazr, beemood, meemi, gozub, mumpa, (inhale) MexicoDiario, feecle*, fanfou.com? Me neither. But for those who do! there is an answer! There is HelloTxt!
Don't get me wrong, I'm not rushing to sign up for this. Yes, I subscribe to Twitter (very handy for keeping track of what I'm doing for the monthly reports - "Oh, right! I did that special storytime in December!" - and recording amusing but brief anecdotes "Child goes into puppet theatre, picks up puppet and says, Git outta mah house, bitch!") ... and Facebook and plaxo, but Twitter already automatically feeds into Plaxo and I've embedded Twitter into this blog. You know, at some time I have to stop! No, really. No, I know you don't believe me. I'm not going to do it. Not even to find out what "feecle" could possibly be. It boggles the mind, of course. But I'll find some other way to figure out what it is.

*It's a Japanese site, like Twitter, I think. I had to make sure that it was what it was and I wasn't misreading the logo. All of these seem to be similar to Twitter - many in different languages as you can see if you click on the links. I didn't find mumpa.

zoho comes through!

Here is the slideshow I tried to embed before, but now I have no trouble with at all!

Testing Zoho, 1-2-3!

An article in this month's School Library Journal reviewed some on-line slideshow programs. The first one was at google.docs ... and because I have a Google account (which is what Blogger is), I went there first. :( /me no like. Very basic, not much fun. So I next tried Zoho, which I thought was brilliant ... until I came to the part where I could embed the slideshow in my blog ... and it doesn't work in this blog. And we all know I've been embedding in this blog until the cows wended their way homeward. So, if you want to see what I created, you'll have to click on the link:

http://show.zoho.com/public/marfita/Virtual%20Afterlife

Other than the embedding problem, I found it loads of fun to use. Sure, it could use more flashy stuff like Scrapblog, but Zoho is more a business site and Scrapblog is a fun site. There is lots more office software available on Zoho and I think it would be a very useful tool for our patrons who would like to share the work they do or who need an on-line alternative to the Microsquash Office.
Now, if they can only work out that embedding thingie.