Lots of Fun 2.0 Tools Here!

From
2009: What’s Hot in RSS
via PLA Blog by KarenKeys on 4/2/09

Learn to search and create RSS feeds for YouTube tags for your library. What stories are being told about you?

Votes Database: from the Washington Post (and created by an intern). You can set up the RSS feeds for a particular member or all recent votes.Votes Database: from the Washington Post (and created by an intern). You can set up the RSS feeds for a particular member or all recent votes.

Ravelry: The social networking tools for knitters. (Trust us! We've been there and it includes crochet and fiber arts)

Open Congress: Taps into the Thomas page and features many different types of feeds. Cohen likes the issues option. After selecting on an issue, you can pick a feed option or choose “share this.”

Justia : Search and set up feeds for federal court filings.

compfight: a Flickr search tool that can also be limited it to Creative Commons. Still in beta. Once again, what story is your library telling?

SF Signal

SF Signal

Amazon's Top 10 SF/F Books of 2007

5 Awesome Sci-Fi Inventions That Would Actually Suck. (language)

From the UK's Guardian: favorite books to re-read.

Friday YouTube: Death Star Canteen (remember to view this at home)

The 3 Best "Greedo Shot First" Parodies (yet another at-home)

Saturday YouTube: Star Trek doing Holy Grail (home)

SF Scope sez there are three new Nancy Kress books on the way: Steal Across the Sky (Tor), Dogs (a biological thriller published by Tachyon), and the short story collection Nano Comes to Clifford Falls and Other Stories (Golden Gryphon).

Vintage Space and Science Fiction Themed Games