Reading Rooster Recommends September 3 2009

It's a trend.......

First came "Price and Prejudice and Zombies" new to be released: "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters." The latest Jane Austen mashup. Can't WAIT so see what they come up with next!!

Have IM on the Blog.......

Well, we finally have IM on the blog. Scroll down to the bottom and ask a question!!

New Program......

We have yet another new program in the works. We would like to offer a Wii Fit program for adults. Wii Fit uses a unique platform peripheral called the Wii Balance Board, allowing the software to, among other uses, calculate body mass index (BMI) when told the user's height. The game has about 50 different activities including yoga poses, push ups, and other exercises. Furthermore, Wii Fit allows its players to take body tests and compare their results without the game disc. Wii Fit tracks a user's "Wii Fit Age" through a body test basing the result on the user's current age, weight and athletic ability.

This is awesome software. If you are interested in participating, please call the the library. We will base the schedule on the level of interest.

Ahhhh -- the lazy blogger

In a phenomenon that occurs every year in the week before Labor Day, bloggers across America file pointless, content-free "filler" blogs, enabling the lazy scribes to hit the beach earlier, according to observers who have been following this trend.

The "filler" blogs are churned out in a matter of minutes with no loftier goal than meeting a deadline and filling up space -- meaning that bloggers will often resort to using the same words or phrase again and again and again and again and again.

And rather than doing any original writing, the slothful bloggers will rely on so-called "experts" to supply them with quotes to fill up space, experts say.

"They'll often quote people you've never heard of," says Harold Crimmins, an expert in the field of filler blogs. "It's pretty shameless."

The typical "filler" blog is often a reprint of a previously published column, but the writer will later plug in one cursory reference to current events, such as the health care reform controversy, to disguise this fact.

And in order to fill up space even faster, Crimmins says, the lazy beach-bound blogger will compose his summer "filler" columns with short paragraphs.

Many of these paragraphs will be as short as one sentence, he says.

"Or shorter," he adds.

There are other telltale signs a reader can look for in order to determine whether a writer has, in fact, filed a so-called "filler" blog, according to Crimmins.

One of these is a tendency to repeat information that the reader has already read earlier in the article, with columnists even stooping to using the same quote twice.

"They'll often quote people you've never heard of," Crimmins says.

Another tip-off is if the blog ends abruptly.

my thanks to andy

It takes a village.

Mr Dixon
Originally uploaded by Lee County Public Library - SC

We Love all our patrons - but Mr. Dixon is very special. Every week he brings us a pound cake. (How Great is that??) Mr. Dixon is a dedicated gentleman and his greatest interest is to return prayer to the schools.

He has a kind soul and is always so sweet to us. He lifts our spirits with his kind word.

Thanks Rev.

It takes a village....