Oh well, I do very much enjoy the "fun and creativity" part of this assignment and I can see some aspects of this being used in my private life for some great party planning!!! I'm sure quite possibly this could be used for designing in-house displays, program/marketing posters and as suggested for PowerPoint presentations. I'll have to think about that one...
I initially went to The Generator Blog and tried to open several different pages and had problems just to get them to open. It may be because it was the afternoon on a Friday and it typically slows down to a crawl here. I may have to come back to this at a later time.*
On Image Chef I customized Surfs Up without any problems, except that you have to keep their "logo" unless you pay for the premium service.
I thought Letter James was like most any other photo sharing website that offer the same products these days, including Kodakgallery and Snapfish. Perhaps the only difference was the "AlphaPicture" image personlization service. No matter which, you'll still end up paying.
Carleton College's trading cards were a cute idea, but I'm VERY sure I would not want that information out there for the general public at our headquarters library. I do see the potential for something like this for updating bookmarks and booklists (if these graphics truly fall in the "public domain" under copyright) as well as other information resources such as our "Street card" that has basic needs info for our homeless population.
As I played some more I did my own Google search for "image generator" and found Image Generator Links 2009 and from there found many different links including the Dummies Book Cover Maker (4 styles, change the cover on the DIY learning book covers)
It seems they will publish "dummies" books for almost EVERYTHING these days!!!
*Update to the The Generator Blog
I still found a lot of broken links, and some really useless sites, but I must admit I also had the most fun here.
Web Economy Bullshit Generator
Soft Drink Generator
If I come up with the new taste that everyone loves, maybe I can actually PAY people to run the Web 2.0 technologies for me...
Festisite: Personalized money
Yeah, I'd love to print my own money! Wouldn't THAT be an economic stimulus??? I wouldn't have to invent a new soft drink, drive in to work, blog about 23 things...
Now back to our regularly scheduled programming, er um, job duties! :-)
