#9: Flickr: Easter Bunny or Guinea pig ?

Easter Bunny or Guinea pig ?
Originally uploaded by dora_marie

There was another photo I saw of a bunny selling carrot juice when I was browsing, but I couldn't find it just now, so this will have to do.

Flickr is definitely a place where I could spend a lot of time at, browsing through the "interstingness" part, where they say you could "Explore the gorgeousity by choosing a point in time..."

#8: Roll on Rollyo

Yet another account to create?!

(sigh....)

I've set up my own search roll and added it to my blog (see left), but havn't done that many search using it. Well okay, I only did one search - Yann Martel's "self", but the results looked pretty interesting (read good).

So far this looks to be a nifty search tool, if you are looking for something specific and have some idea of where you might look. It's kind of like a "Limit" button. Just one thing though, I think it would be better if it gives the user the option of searching in more than one site/source.

Oh! i just saw something called "the RollBar Bookmarklet". Apparently it "lets you search whatever site you're on, or use any of your Searchrolls from anywhere.... and create new ones on the fly. You can take it with you... " Sounds interesting, yet another search tool. I'll have a go at that later then.

#7: LibraryThing

LibraryThing is a pretty cool place to visit. It's the equivalent of the Visual Bookshelf application on Facebook really, but better organised.

There were forums and different groups that you could join, including a group of Librarians who LibraryThing. I browsed through their forum, and there were some very entertaining posts for "Funny Requests from patrons". Under the Tools tab, you have these other options of what to do on/with LibraryThing, including how to make a photomosaic or a poster of all the book covers in your catelogue. (Which I thought was pretty cool, might do that later)

I don't have as much time these days to read as I would like, so my collection would be growing at a very slow rate. (Not to mention remembering the titles I've read, I have a terrible memory.)

As for how LibraryThing could be applied at Manukau Libraries... hmm... maybe somehow incoporate some of its features into My Info? Anyway, I think I would keep LibraryThing after the nine weeks' up.

Here's the link to my collection, at its infancy:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/jctaco

#6: Image generator

Here's my first attempt, pretty basic really. Hope to have more time in the near future to play around with image generators!

PS on RSS

This RSS week really was very confusing, especially since the pics in the instruction/tutorial doesn't match!

#5: More on RSS

Okey-dok, here's the link to my blogline:
http://www.bloglines.com/public/jctaco

I've had a brief look on all the three RSS/blog search sites, and I find Topix and Technorati the easier of the three to use in terms of navigation. I found Syndic8 to be less user-friendly, probably because I'm not terch-savvy and have no idea what things like "pings" are. Maybe one day Syndic8 will make more sense to me once I've found what all this is about!

#4: RSS

I was lost and confused...
Swimming in a sea of acronyms, promises of making it all so much easier.
So i bravely set forth to investigate.
Several pop-ups and many many windows later, I finally discovered the magic of RSS feed!

It is good to finally know what those bright orange RSS buttons are for, and that there is an alternative to marking pages as My Favourites and hopping from one page to the next. Oh and that when people talk about "feeds", they don't mean the edible kind.

So all that's left for me to do now is to take a deep breath and dive into all the interesting snippets.

So many options, so little time

Well, setting up a new blog was easy. The hard part was looking at all different options for settings and deciding what to do! and one could most definitely spend LOTS of time playing with and tweaking the pages.