week four; thing 9: merlin and library-related blogs/ newsfeeds

I got lost in social networking on the merlin site and ended up with a myspace account!

here.

As for blogs and newsfeeds, I had fun searching topics on feedster ( and still do in my spare time.) I subscribed to a couple news feeds as well as the pla blog...so I think I stand a good chance of spending more time blogging!

week four; thing 8: rss feeds and setup bloglines account

Well, well, well. This was an interesting assignment. Setting up a bloglines account was somewhat of a deja-vous experience...just seemed like something that had been done before. (I am glad I'm keeping an ongoing list of usernames and passwords in a notebook!)
Anyway, I set up several feeds on my newsreader account...including a few other md23things blogs...and several "newsy" feeds and I have one library related feed. I discovered a cool website: feedster ---and found out you can do search to find out what other people are saying (via blogs) about a topic.

week three; thing 7: technology

Pogue iPhone TWiT
Originally uploaded by insidetwit

I have been reading about the iphone... about to debut on Friday. (check out this link for acu-info: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/) Anyway, as I was saying, the iphone has captured my attention partly because it is new and partly because it can do so many things!
Apparently, people have been waiting for this new technology like others once waited for Alexander Graham Bell to invent the telephone. And, who knows how our world will now change? The iphone can do it all. You can talk on the phone, play music and/or videos, and browse the web! Neat-o!

week three; thing 6: flickr fun, mashups & 3rd party sites

This was totally new for me. Flickr itself was new...I didn't even know what a mashup was before, much less play with it a bit, and the third-party-site thing is still unclear to me. What is it? Is it the same as a mashup, or different and in what way? I like the mashup concept and get it by thinking of the resee peanut-butter cup metaphor (your chocolate on my peanut butter!)

By way of discovery, I tried to create a calendar using photos saved on my computer. (the key word being "tried.") When I had trouble uploading the images, I scrapped the calendar idea in favor of creating a mosaic. I signed in, attempted an upload, and then the screen changed...there it was...my new mosaic with a thin black line for a frame. It was totally white! I scrolled down hoping to find an image...NONE. At that point a small caption appeared at the bottom of my "white canvas." It read, "and you thought you were not creative." That created a few good laughs around here!

week three; thing 5: explore flickr

I have gained the idea that flickr is an online personal photo album. You can invite people to see your photos by simple request through this site. Flickr sends an official email invite to your people and then, ta-da, you have quick and easy photo-sharing! You can also keep your photos completely private, if you wish. And...flickr has the most amazing collection of photos to view and chooose from to share with others. On top of that, people post comments about the photos---sometimes there are over a hundred comments posted from around the world all about one particular photo.

week two; thing 4: register blog/track progress

Registering a blog was easier than filling out a short and simple application!
Making progress and tracking it now!

garden-delights June 20, 2007

garden-delights
Originally uploaded by chezza61

found on flickr...part of my discovery!