Thing Number Thirteen - Del.icio.us

Browser bookmarks in the past have seemed too unwieldy, with people spending more time organizing them than using them. Del.icio.us opens them to whatever computer you happen to be using and to what one article calls "flat hierarchy," AND to the world of social computing.

I plan to set up an account eventually and have printed out Us.ef.ul A beginner's guide to The Next Big Thing. The article is dated 2004. ...hard to believe it was written that long ago.

On the PLCMC account, I checked out the bookmark related to Online Reference. Looks useful for later study.

Thing Number Nine - Feed Me More!

I added feeds for:

• New this Week from http://www.lii.org a reliable resource to help with AskUsNow! chat reference
• Public Library Association blog
• Numerous blogs of HCPL colleagues; my nomination for cleverest name is frogonaloginablog.
  

Thing Number Eight - Feed Me! Feed Me!

Bloglines newsreader established. Looks like a good personal organizer.

Thing Number Six - Image Upload

Flickr groups look promising for a possible later application. I used Blogger's upload tool to import one of my digital images.

Looking to Home
(kf portugal)

Thing Number Five – Why Flickr?

What’s the big deal about Flickr? Why has it become the highly-touted photo storing, sharing site of choice? Turnoff number one – requirement for a Yahoo account – who needs yet another email account? Turnoff number two – difficulty in acquiring a Yahoo account. The zip code for Bel Air was repeatedly rejected as not being a postal code for this country. (After many attempts, I ended up using a Michigan zip.) Then the RECOMMENDED login name was rejected as having already been taken. At this point, I decided to look at similar products, Google’s Picasa for one. A search on flickr vs picasa 2007 resulted in a number of postings praising Picasa’s photo management capabilities, but especially Flickr’s focus on community and the size of that community. A thorough and informed description of similar services can be found here:
http://www.jasonmorrison.net/content/2007/picasa-vs-iphoto-vs-flickr-vs-panoramio/

Thing Number Two - Play vs. End Goal

Two of the pointers given for Lifelong Learning seem contradictory. Always a proponent of the value of play and experimentation both with technology and with life, I find that having a concrete goal in mind often destroys the joy of the journey and the playful approach to learning. In order to reconcile the two, I like to set up the goal AS the journey, establishing the desired outcome as the serendipitous discoveries made along the way.

Thing Number Seven - Technology of Interest

I have been exploring the wordpress.com blogging software a bit (suggested as a possibility by Irmgarde) and think that it may suit my content needs more than blogger. At first glance wordpress seems to have more options to create and organize content, while still encouraging the social interaction of a blog.

I'm currently playing with different templates in wordpress, and will post future Mossman Guitar content there. I've just added a history page. http://mossmanguitars.wordpress.com/about/

I'll continue to use this Blogger blog for Learning Libraries 2.o posts.