I've been wanting to make a latin holiday card to send to my friends. So I found this holiday ecard image generator at http://www.customizemagnets.com/ecards/holiday.asp. It was simple to use, and this card only took me about 5 minutes to make.
Friday, September 28, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Old Ramblings
Hello everyone! I have been using bloglines, which is rather primitive for blogging. So I decided to move everything to Blogger. Here are all my posts to date:
September 14, 2007
RSS Feeds
My favorite Web 2.0 technology is RSS feeds. It is especially hard to find info on the web on ancient coin collecting -- as a consequence, one does alot of searching for very little data. RSS feeds have made this task easy!
Most of my RSS feeds have to do with classical antiquity, and ancient coin collecting. My favorite feed is "A Gift For Polydektes" which provides a lot of information on current ancient coin auctions, and ramblings of fellow collectors.
Here's a link to my public Blogline's account: http://www.bloglines.com/blog/AncientCoinsGuru
Posted on: Fri, Sep 14 2007 3:56 PM
News Feeds
Feedster: Using Feedster is like shooting dice. I put the same search term in 3 times and got 1119, 725, and 1002 results, respectively. About half the page was filled with commercial adds ("sponsored links") and the rest with misc. feeds, very few having anything to do with ancient roman coins. Each time I did the search, a different selection of random results appeared on page 1.
Topix: While Topix did not provide any information on ancient roman coins, it is a wonderful feed for finding local news, and I subscribed to their RSS feed for my zip code.
Syndic8: Nothing to be found on ancient coin collecting, but I enjoyed looking at their statistics, which has several interesting graphs. While they have over 84,000 feeds, over 50% are dead or awaiting repair.
Technorati: I found the most feeds here for ancient roman coins. I liked the way my search results were seperated into categories: photos, videos, posts and blogs. I even found an interview with Mr. Wayne Sayles, Executive Director of The Ancient Coin Collector’s Guild, that I had not seen before. Another nice feature was their language search option, so I was able to look for Italian feeds.
Posted on: Fri, Sep 14 2007 3:50 PM
September 7, 2007
Technology
I was blown away by all the shared photos I saw on Flickr. Social networking has raised many questions in my mind regarding the future of libraries. If a warm and supportive online learning community exist, will people continue to seek out libraries as a peaceful haven for learning and research? Should our web presence be a greater priority than our physical space?
I'm also curious to learn more about widgets, which are desktop tools, usually based on JavaScript. Cataloging macros were probably the first generation of widgets, so I'm curious to see what widgets can bring to the library.
Posted on: Fri, Sep 7 2007 6:58 PM
Mashups
I was most intrigued by Crayon Box Experimental Colr Pickr, created by Jim Bumgardner. Who would have thought we'd ever be able to find a picture by color! Great idea for home decorating, or beautifying any space.
Posted on: Fri, Sep 7 2007 6:43 PM
Cato the Younger
My hobby is collecting ancient coins, and cataloging/writing about coins is what I like to do in my free time. I enjoy learning about classical history, and usually buy coins that tell me something about classical antiquity. Here's one of the coins from my collection.
Marcus Porcius Catō Uticēnsis (95 BC–46 BC), known as Cato the Younger (Cato Minor) to distinguish him from his great-grandfather Cato the Elder, was a politician and statesman in the late Roman Republic, and a follower of the Stoic philosophy. He is remembered for his legendary stubbornness and tenacity (especially in his lengthy conflict with Gaius Julius Caesar), as well as his immunity to bribes, his moral integrity, and famous distaste for the ubiquitous corruption of the period.
Here is a coin Cato the Younger minted in 89 BC. It is a silver (AR) denarius, weighs 4.1gm and measures 20 mm.
The obverse of this coin depicts a draped female bust facing right (the city of ancient Rome is often represented by a female). The reverse of this coin depicts Victory seated right, holding a patera and palm branch. A patera was a broad, shallow dish used for drinking, usually during religious ceremonies.
Posted on: Fri, Sep 7 2007 6:26 PM
What comes after Library 2.0?
By AncientCoinsGuru
I was curious….what comes after Library 2.0?
Searching on the web, I see that many libraries are already offering Library 2.1. It's based on the Library 2.1 Learning Experience at the Public Library of Charlotte.
Posted on: Fri, Sep 7 2007 5:38 PM
August 22, 2007
7 1/2 effective learning habits
By AncientCoinsGuru
I have been using these habits since high school, so most are second nature to me. The one that is the easiest is probably #5, create your own learning toolkit. Since I have been a hobbyist and/or collector since grade school, this is the fun part of the 7 1/2 habits. The hardest for me is habit #7, teach/mentor others. My interests as eclectic and esoteric, so they are not widely shared, and I'm always afraid I will bore my audience.
Posted on: Wed, Aug 22 2007 4:10 PM
September 14, 2007
RSS Feeds
My favorite Web 2.0 technology is RSS feeds. It is especially hard to find info on the web on ancient coin collecting -- as a consequence, one does alot of searching for very little data. RSS feeds have made this task easy!
Most of my RSS feeds have to do with classical antiquity, and ancient coin collecting. My favorite feed is "A Gift For Polydektes" which provides a lot of information on current ancient coin auctions, and ramblings of fellow collectors.
Here's a link to my public Blogline's account: http://www.bloglines.com/blog/AncientCoinsGuru
Posted on: Fri, Sep 14 2007 3:56 PM
News Feeds
Feedster: Using Feedster is like shooting dice. I put the same search term in 3 times and got 1119, 725, and 1002 results, respectively. About half the page was filled with commercial adds ("sponsored links") and the rest with misc. feeds, very few having anything to do with ancient roman coins. Each time I did the search, a different selection of random results appeared on page 1.
Topix: While Topix did not provide any information on ancient roman coins, it is a wonderful feed for finding local news, and I subscribed to their RSS feed for my zip code.
Syndic8: Nothing to be found on ancient coin collecting, but I enjoyed looking at their statistics, which has several interesting graphs. While they have over 84,000 feeds, over 50% are dead or awaiting repair.
Technorati: I found the most feeds here for ancient roman coins. I liked the way my search results were seperated into categories: photos, videos, posts and blogs. I even found an interview with Mr. Wayne Sayles, Executive Director of The Ancient Coin Collector’s Guild, that I had not seen before. Another nice feature was their language search option, so I was able to look for Italian feeds.
Posted on: Fri, Sep 14 2007 3:50 PM
September 7, 2007
Technology
I was blown away by all the shared photos I saw on Flickr. Social networking has raised many questions in my mind regarding the future of libraries. If a warm and supportive online learning community exist, will people continue to seek out libraries as a peaceful haven for learning and research? Should our web presence be a greater priority than our physical space?
I'm also curious to learn more about widgets, which are desktop tools, usually based on JavaScript. Cataloging macros were probably the first generation of widgets, so I'm curious to see what widgets can bring to the library.
Posted on: Fri, Sep 7 2007 6:58 PM
Mashups
I was most intrigued by Crayon Box Experimental Colr Pickr, created by Jim Bumgardner. Who would have thought we'd ever be able to find a picture by color! Great idea for home decorating, or beautifying any space.
Posted on: Fri, Sep 7 2007 6:43 PM
Cato the Younger
My hobby is collecting ancient coins, and cataloging/writing about coins is what I like to do in my free time. I enjoy learning about classical history, and usually buy coins that tell me something about classical antiquity. Here's one of the coins from my collection.
Marcus Porcius Catō Uticēnsis (95 BC–46 BC), known as Cato the Younger (Cato Minor) to distinguish him from his great-grandfather Cato the Elder, was a politician and statesman in the late Roman Republic, and a follower of the Stoic philosophy. He is remembered for his legendary stubbornness and tenacity (especially in his lengthy conflict with Gaius Julius Caesar), as well as his immunity to bribes, his moral integrity, and famous distaste for the ubiquitous corruption of the period.
Here is a coin Cato the Younger minted in 89 BC. It is a silver (AR) denarius, weighs 4.1gm and measures 20 mm.
The obverse of this coin depicts a draped female bust facing right (the city of ancient Rome is often represented by a female). The reverse of this coin depicts Victory seated right, holding a patera and palm branch. A patera was a broad, shallow dish used for drinking, usually during religious ceremonies.Posted on: Fri, Sep 7 2007 6:26 PM
What comes after Library 2.0?
By AncientCoinsGuru
I was curious….what comes after Library 2.0?
Searching on the web, I see that many libraries are already offering Library 2.1. It's based on the Library 2.1 Learning Experience at the Public Library of Charlotte.
Posted on: Fri, Sep 7 2007 5:38 PM
August 22, 2007
7 1/2 effective learning habits
By AncientCoinsGuru
I have been using these habits since high school, so most are second nature to me. The one that is the easiest is probably #5, create your own learning toolkit. Since I have been a hobbyist and/or collector since grade school, this is the fun part of the 7 1/2 habits. The hardest for me is habit #7, teach/mentor others. My interests as eclectic and esoteric, so they are not widely shared, and I'm always afraid I will bore my audience.
Posted on: Wed, Aug 22 2007 4:10 PM
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