Task 11: (part 1)
Looks Like Bookreporter.com will be a favorite, right on the opening page I noticed a new Clive Cussler novel I hadn't known about. Although this is a new series for him (not Dirk Pitt >( ) I will have to make some time to read it, as I have for all of his that I've found. I will probably look further into the Kidsreads.com site further, however, as it looks as though I may find good info about books for my son!
(part 2)
I once again looked up Piers Anthony, this time through the biography resource center, to see if it brought up anything different than the previous search. No joy - it's the same 8 articles I already found. Interestingly, one of the biographers notes that Piers aims his work at "a younger audience" while ignoring novels like Steppe or the Battle Circle trilogy which are both listed among his work by this biographer. Guess you don't have to truly read all of an author's work to write about them....

As before, nothing really new to learn through this set of articles. I liked Piers' Bio of an Ogre a great deal as an exposition on his career and life, and although he's produced a great deal since then, the description still fits

Task 10 (part2):

I searched on the Ford Explorer & limited it to January through December of 1996 - the year mine was produced. Among other things I found articles concerning the Firestone faulty tires that were put on at the factories that year, which were partly responsible for the vehicle's poor safety evaluations at the time.

(part 3):

I searched on Piers Anthony (yay Xanth!), and found 8 articles concerning him. Didn't find too much that I didn't already know, though.

On to the next task>>>

Task #9: The Webpage -- too much fun. Never expected to do a page for myself. I chose to go with Weebly. site is:

http://datroll.weebly.com

there's not much there yet, but perhaps later...
TTFN (Ta Ta For Now)

Task 8!!

Creative Commons - very interesting idea! I looked up an image of the Hadron Particle Collider using the Google Image engine:

I prefer Google as I have always had goth good and fast results when using it. I would use the Creative Commons website pretty much the same as any other site for research, and make sure to cite the source as usual.

As for other artists - none of the ones I searched 4 are CC listed. Methinks my tastes a bit too archaic? Hmmph. Knew I was getting too old for this stuff!!!

On to the next one....

Task 7:
I chose Allreaders, as it looked to be closest to the way I tend to choose books. As it turns out, the format is a little unwieldy for my preference, and I will probably not use it again.

With regard to the Goodreads page from Boulder: I think it would be good to have the capability on our page to do reviews by individuals similarly to the way GoodReads does. I don't think ours would need to be replaced by this, but just to have the added capability, and then making the reviews searchable would be nice.

On to the next task!!