teen slang

Ok, so this is according to the Guardian, "language of the MySpace generation". From my experience with teens, once books get to the newspapers, they are seriously gone already from their vocabulary, but who knows...perhaps some of these haven't drifted from England to us yet :)

Something I'm proud of...

Here is a article featured on the Diamond Comics website about the committee I had the honor of chairing for its maiden year: YALSA Honors Graphic Novels with 2007 Recommendations. It was a great experience working with this committee, and I got to read a ton of terrific books (ok, and some lousy ones too ;)

If you ever want a recommendation for a graphic novel, just ask!

Learning about RSS feeds

I confess, I sorta knew what these were before, but really hadn't utilized them much. I just set up a Google Reader account last month, but so far I like Bloglines better. I've always been frustrated with how hard it is to keep track of people's blogs, but this makes it super easy to keep track of all sorts of stuff. I can see this being handy in all sorts of ways, both for my personal and professional life. I love it!

fun with flickr mashups

my trading card
Originally uploaded by DawnOfTheRead.

I went ahead and made my own trading card. I just realized it has been years since that picture was taken now! I feel old :(

I've also been trying to figure out how to post to flickr with my cell phone, but apparently I haven't gotten that down yet.

There are so many flickr related applications out there...I had no idea. Unfortuantely, I couldn't get a lot of them to work, and many of them didn't seem terribly useful to me, but I would love to hear about people's favorites.

Summer Reading Commercial

I would love to start doing this sort of thing for KCLS!

Golden Compass toys!

Check it out: Golden Compass toys based on the upcoming movie.

TeenZone @ Lake Hills

TeenZone
Originally uploaded by DawnOfTheRead.

For 27 Things, one of the things we have to do is use a flickr account. I confess, I've had one for a while, but never really learned how to use it. I'm really excited to be figuring it out now. It is a lot easier than I realized, and a great place to share information.