Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Tuesday Thingers

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Today's question: A few weeks ago, someone told me about the Common Knowledge feature of Library Thing. The statistics and basic information can be found through a link at the bottom of any page. Currently there are over 869,540 facts that have been entered. How do they get there? We add them!

It took me a while to figure out that you enter them from the book or author page. When you have a book or author page pulled up, if you look at the left hand side, there are a bunch of links you can choose from. One of them is Common Knowledge. If you click the link, it will bring up a section where you can add facts.

Have you ever looked at the Common Knowledge page, or viewed the history of changes/additions? If you were aware of this section, have you added any information? Do you find this information useful or interesting?

My answer: No, I didn't know about this feature at all. I just checked it out when I read this post. Looks like there is alot of information there and could be very helpful. I'm not sure yet how I'd use it, but I could see where alot of people would want to. I'll have to look at this some more over the weekend. There's so much at LT that I haven't looked at and I really need to do that.

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Thought I'd share some pics of my beautiful kitties...

This is Trini.....











And now Geiger...














and of course Socrates...


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5 comments:

  1. FleurFisherJanuary 13, 2009 at 8:25 AM

    I find common knowledge invaluable for odd facts and descriptions that Amazon misses. And your cats are gorgeous!

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  2. caiteJanuary 13, 2009 at 8:48 AM

    that Geiger looks like a kitty with attitude. I would post pictures of my imaginary cat Kitty....but she is imaginary.

    as in all things odd and geeky about Library Thing, I like Common Knowledge.

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  3. jlshallJanuary 13, 2009 at 5:15 PM

    I've browsed Common Knowledge a little, and added a few bits of info. It's fun, but I'm not sure how really useful it might be.

    Beautiful kitties! They look like they definitely have three very different personalities.

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  4. The BookwormJanuary 15, 2009 at 1:50 PM

    awwwww...the kitties are sooo cute :)
    i'll have to check out the Common Knowledge feature of Library Thing, I didnt know about it.
    http://thebookworm07.blogspot.com/

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  5. WendiJanuary 19, 2009 at 10:21 PM

    What beautiful cats! I've always been partial to the soft grey color! :)

    Thanks for participating in Tuesday Thingers last week! I've got this week's posted now.

    Take care, Wendi

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