Lesson 8: Bloglines & RSS feeds:

Day 4 -- or "4th Entry" -- this may morph as I go through this. I'm new @ this, remember? So far I've worked through the 1st 3 weeks, total of 7 lessons. The next will be learning about RSS feeds & setting up my own Bloglines newsreader account -- sounds challenging from this side, but I'm sure it will all make sense eventually. For the time being, however, I want to thank staff members Desi, Susan, Terry K.,Cheryl, & Sarah for helping me get this far. A lot of this was already familiar territory, but the specifics of Learn & Play, setting up a Blog, & starting a Flickr Account all took a wee bit of coaching (cheers from the sidelines, etc.). So onward.

Today's a holiday, part of the Labor Day Weekend, so I'll take the occasion to catch up w/ myself, add some hyperlinks to my graphics imports, maybe add a new picture, maybe even look ahead...

Cheers, Carol

P.S. Just tried to add a new picture, but couldn't get it to download. So why could I do it before, but not now? It's a mystery. I'll try again later.

Later: Photo above is of a painting by Georgia O'Keeffe, one of my favorites. I'm still not up on Blog Posts etiquette (or Netiquette) -- be patient, I'll learn.

Day 3 -- Lessons #5-7: Flickr & Tech site:

1st, explore Flickr -- where I have never dared to go, until now, w/ a gentle push from CML.

Later (for the 2nd time) -- this is much more complicated than I'd thought it would be. Set up a Yahoo Account (took 3 tries), signed up for Flickr & set up an account there, posted an image, Had trouble updating my Learn & Play Records, etc.

As to Flickr, itself (http://www.flickr.com/): Its a cool online site for storing, organizing, editing, & sharing images, also for sending images to your Blog, but I haven't figured out how to do that yet -- it takes time, I'll get there. Certainly this has value for both personal use & for library staff & customers.....Time to shelve books.

2nd, explored Flickr 3rd party sites & mashups --it's a big world out there. Considering the whole picture, as much as I can, at present, there appear to be endless possibilities for image sharing, especially information related images. Here's an example of an information-laden mashup: http://www.webmashup.com/blog/2007/08/18/earthquake-a-google-maps-mashup/

3rd, Now to add Tech. info site -- Posted it on L&P log, then modified it to the URL for this blog entry site -- an article re. new Image Search Software, Picitup @ http://www.israel21c.org/bin/en.jsp?enZone=Technology&enDisplay=view&enPage=BlankPage&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Articles%5El2231

--&, by the way, I just figured out how to add links to my Blog! another "small step."(added 9/30 -- I'm going back through & tweaking some of my entries, more like damage control w/ some -- thanks for the extra time!)

Day 2, Lesson 4,

Have registered my blog on CMLsi (I hope)
-- floundering bravely forward. How about some color? Yes!!!

Another small step (sheep are courtesy of the hillside in Dorset, England, from some web site -- thank you to whomever took the photo & posted it.).

Months later: here's the link for this photo:
http://www.viewscenes.co.uk/Fotos/images/2688ViewOfPurbeckHills.jpg

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Day 1, Lesson 3 -- This is as far as I've gotten -- "one small Step" ----