Thing 24 – updating my blog part 2

Looking at gadgets, I decided to add the subscription links, just in case anyone wants to follow me on this journey. I didn’t add the one for followers, though. If there aren’t any, I don’t want to know or to advertise the fact. (smile) As part of looking at gadgets, I actually removed a couple. One was the blog list. I replaced it with the newer blog list gadget which let me add blogs directly from my Google Reader account. (I didn’t add all of them; just ones I think people on this list may be interested in.) This gadget makes a nicer looking list than the old one. (It also added the Google Reader logo. Nice try, Google; I removed it.)

I had been through the list of gadgets in the last Thing. There weren’t any of the old ones that I changed my mind about. I don’t want to clutter up the page. Adding pictures is still a possibility, but Facebook may have replaced the blog as a place to share pictures with friends and family. We haven’t started a blog at the library yet, but when we do, I think it will be relatively free of gadgets, too. As a law library, we don’t have the same whiz bang persona as a public library. It was nice to see all the other third-party templates available for Blogger because we may have to use Blogger for the library’s blog and we wouldn’t want it to look amateurish.

In addition to updating my Yahoo avatar, I played with the South Park avatar site. It made a cute avatar but it didn’t save and I ran out of time. Maybe I’ll try again.

I tend to view blogging as a cross between journaling (boring) and journalism (practical). There are a couple dozen things in my Google Reader, but I tend to read them as I would a newspaper. Outside of this blog, I don’t “journal” myself.