THING 26. NING

I haven't looked at Ning since last Fall. I thought I had several friends. When I checked my page, I was down to one. Does Ning take away your friends if you don't post any comments for awhile? I have been adding friends and comments. I joined the Ning for Ramsey County Librarians working on Things on a Stick. I added the CNN gadget and a video to my page. Both those were easy. I tried several times to add the large Ning badge to my blog, but it didn't work.

I am more likely to use email or IM to contact others in the library.

THING 25. MORE TROUBLES ON A STICK, OR, BLOGGERS' TOOLKIT

Are we having fun yet? I was until I tried adding gadgets to the layout page. I tried several different ones, but was not able to add any. Worse, for several days I couldn't scroll through my blog or sign in. I was trying to add the gadget for the Wall St. Journal when this happened. When I previewed the blog, a message came up saying Internet Explorer can't upen the blog URL (even though I had just been in it). When I clicked on OK or Close to get rid of the message, the white screen with "This screen cannot be displayed" came up. Shutting down the PC and starting up again didn't help. A different PC didn't help. Today I tried logging in through Blogger instead of my Favorites bookmark or a Google search. That took me to the Dashboard. I deleted the Wall Street Journal gadget (does anything on or about Wall St. work these days?). Then I could see my blog.

The Typealyzer needs more tweaking. A lot more tweaking. When I tried to find out my blog's type, the message came back "Detected language Vietnamese. The only supported languages are English and Swedish." My blog is in English.