Thing 6: Flickr Mashups

1st I tried Color Fields Experimental Colr Pickr and found this photo:


Paddling pool by janerc



I like the Blue color and being a pisces I really like water!

Next I wanted to try Spell with Flickr :

Interesting!

Clockr did not work for me. ???

I would like to have more photos to do a splashr presentation.

I can see why using these tools can be addictive....it is way to easy to spend too much time doing this...playing.

Thing 5: Flickr

Flickr...Flickr....Flickr I have been looking at photo-sharing websites for quite awhile now, but I have never signed up for an account. Probably because it took me forever (just last year) to get a digital camera. I am so behind it tech gadgets that it is not funny. Now that I have the camera I must make an effort to use it more. Especially since I received a digital photo frame for Christmas last year. Maybe by the end of the year I will have that set up and running. Then again maybe not. Time will tell.



As for this Thing I did go ahead and sign up for a Flickr account and I just happened to have a picture or two that I took of displays in our Library. Below is the picture I tagged as 23Things@NEFLIN .




This thing has been fun. I especially enjoyed searching the funny cat photos and the library cat photos. I would like to see our library set up a Flickr account and post our program photos for all to see! Wouldn't that be nice to share the photos that right now only staff can see? umm something to think about! That's all for now.

Thing 4: RSS and Newsreaders

RSS and Newsreaders....
What do you like about RSS and newsreaders?
I did set up google reader in the not to distant past...mostly to read the RSS feeds from various sites....I like to be in the know...you know what I mean...enquiring minds and all that
anyway... I had not added any blogs to follow until NEFLIN'S 23 Things started. It sure does save lots of time so I am not flipping here and flipping there hunting down all my favorite blogs to see just how far behind I am.

So to learn more for this thing I decided to sign up for Bloglines. It was so easy and using the suggested searches before I knew it I signed up for 19 new RSS and blogs to follow. Well since I do try to do some work :) I am making a psychic prediction that I will end up deleting or unsubscribe to at least half of the new. I am looking forward to seeing just how wacky, weird and wonderful some of my picks turn out to be. Be sure and stay tuned and I will let you know about the keepers! ;-)

Thing 3: Blog Search Tools

Hello....I know it has been awhile since my last posting. I am having a hard time finding the time to work on these "Things". First off I had lots of trouble trying to get Technorati to work. The first three times I tried to go there the computer either timed out or locked up in the search. Could it be too many of us were trying it at the same time? Are some of our computers just too old? Or the network overtaxed...umm...whatever..



I finally got Technorati to work and I put in a non-work search term of "Thimble Collecting" to see what would come up. (Thimbles are on my mind since I brought most of my collection here to work for a display. I will see if I can insert a picture later...still learning)

The results were weird to say the least. The only thing I found of interest was the videos of thimble collecting.....wow there is one video that shows a collection of thousands of thimbles in display cases covering all available wall space even over doors!!! Now that is insane...not a collection but an obsession!



Anyway back on topic... next I went to Google Blog Search and entered the same search term and I hit the jackpot!!! I found blogs from other collectors, thimbles for sale, display cases for thimbles, history of thimbles, thimble collecting clubs.... and so on and on.



As for the question "Why would I want to search blogs?" my answer is to find others with similar interests or help in gaining knowledge on a variety of weird topics like thimble collecting!!!

Thing 2: What is Web 2.0?

When I want to find out the definition of anything I turn to google first.... So for Thing 2 - I entered the term Web 2.0 into the google search and surprise ....surprise Wikipedia was the 1st listing.



Web 2.0 - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


The term "Web 2.0" describes the changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aim to enhance creativity, communications, secure information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web culture communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, video sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies.

I thought to myself....OK this is not too bad...most of this is familiar. Next I

1. Watched the short video of Stephen Abram kicks off 23 Things at Murdoch University Library in Australia.
2. Read the blog post by John Blyberg, a library blogger from Connecticut.
3. Read the article on Library 2.0 is in Library Technology Reports, Volume 43 Issue 5. Read this article "The Ongoing Web Revolution".

Now it makes sense that I have posted nothing in days!!!! I have been plugging away at the resources listed so I could post something profound and intelligent. NOT going to happen.

The best I came up with is to try and answer the following question:
Why are you participating in 23 Things @ NEFLIN? What do you hope to learn?

I am hoping to learn more about how all these wonderful tools and gadgets work together. I think the advances in technology are great and I have been keeping up with some but not all. We all know the best way to learn is by doing so that is why I am so happy that NEFLIN has challenged us to participate in 23 Things!!!

Thing 1 Continued

WOW!!!! I had no idea how much is involved in blogging. Or should I say how easy it can be to get addicted. I have spent more time than I want to admit to looking at other blogs. I will admit right here and now my blog will never be as interesting and creative as some of the people signed up for 23 Things @ NEFLIN.

Thing 1: Set Up a Blog and Register

1 Thing down and 22 more to go!!!