Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Flickr was fun/ rss isn't

Why couldn't it be as easy to upload the feeds on my blog as it was to get them on myyahoo page? I am not sure if the connection was slow or I didn't' copy the right address, but I added and deleted 7 or 8 times until the feed opened correctly. I never had that problem on yahoo.

The feeds are fantastic way to keep interests front and center. I have feeds for children's books and environmental sites selected on the other page. The 'Just One More Book' podcast was forwarded to me me by a writer friend. It is entertaining to drop in for a listen sometimes. I will definitely find the feeds to library related sites I use frequently and add them to the blog.

Now I have to learn how to add other staff members to me blog.

To be fair to rss, once the feeds are operational they work seamlesly so I won't whine amymore.

Friday, September 12, 2008

Flickr fun

I posted pix of my new garden awhile ago and just got back to add a few tags. That was so easy! No wonder everyone is talking about tagging everything. Word clouds look cool. This feature will be extremely useful as I build a photo gallery of the garden each season. No more smeary pencil sketches! I'll have crisp, beautifully tagged photos to help me remeber exactly what grew where.
My brother-in-law posts pictures of bike rides he takes so other bikers will become familiar with trails. I like that--an up-to-the-minute travel guide.

The photos in the LOC files were interesting. I followed the comment trial of the Einstein photo and learned alot about how viewers can help identify people/objects in photos. The fact checking and historical perspective increased the time I spent looking at the files.
Without a doubt there is too much to try and do now that I am digging around. I am glad it is ONLY a few things for Web2.0. I'm so slow the upgrades will catch me, wait a minute, that means I'll be learning from the up grades and will have skipped a version. Hmmm. Honestly, this is fascinating and much easier than I expected. So much of life is exactly the same.