"Anything technology related that interests you this week"? Hmm... quite a selection... I'm going to have to choose last.fm!
i think last.fm might be the best thing ever created, lol. In the past, i mostly used to discover new music by reading about them in magazines. most magazines i like are hard-to-find European publications and so when my (ex-)favorite easy-to-get magazine completely abandoned their roots & started covering music styles i'm not interested in, i was at a loss ...until i stumbled onto last.fm a year or two ago.
Through tags and comparing user charts, last.fm recommends bands. You can network with other users via groups & shoutboxes. i've recently started leaving comments on songs, artists, and albums as i listen to them. There’s a place to write journals (kinda like blogs!) which i've taken advantage of many times, plus you can add connections to songs & bands so your journal might actually get read by people w/ similar interests. They even have some free songs to download (another service i've recently started to use). Photos of bands ppl can add! Band info wikis edited by fans! Events near you!
i still hear about bands to check out through mags or compilations, but with last.fm i can actually hear several songs by them and decide for myself.
*giggles* i feel like i've just written a commercial for last.fm!
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
#6 more flickr
i played with the trading card maker. it was fun and a made this cute Leeloo card but i don't think it will have much practical purpose. --->
then i clicked the "flickr tools" link and found http://gickr.com/ i'd been looking for a way to make nice animated gifs for sometime now. all i had to do was load & tag my pics to flickr, then enter my user name and a tag, choose which ones, the size & speed, clicked next and viola!
then i clicked the "flickr tools" link and found http://gickr.com/ i'd been looking for a way to make nice animated gifs for sometime now. all i had to do was load & tag my pics to flickr, then enter my user name and a tag, choose which ones, the size & speed, clicked next and viola!
this is one app i definitely will use!
when i tried mappr is said "Note: As of 2007, Mappr is no longer processing images from flickr. Take a look at flickr to find images on maps" so i abandoned the pursuit of that app.
#5 flickr
I added this picture of my cookiebear to my brand new flickr account. She's cute so adding pictures of her is always fun :)
I took the tour and poked around a bit. I like the popular tags feature & the way you can view someone photostream in slideshow format... well i did once, now i can't seem to do it again. oh well, i'll play w/ it later and figure it out. I already have a photobucket account but i think i perfer flickr already.
i searched for Omaha Public Library and found only one picture. Searching for it with "full text" turned up 105 photos. When i searched for people w/ the term "Omaha Public Library " i found the account i think i made while working on OPL's myspace... oops forgot about that.
i linked my flickr to my blog. it was so easy. now i'll probably post too many pictures on it, lol.
just for practice i added the 2nd photo of Leeloo using blogger... looks keen!
Friday, September 12, 2008
Week #4 Register Your Blog
I hope i'm doing this right...
In week one i read about the wiki article about what library 2.0 is. Good thing too, because i read a few references about it while working on OPL's MySpace, but never knew quite what it was. I also watched the slide show about the 7 1/2 Habits of Highly effective learners.
In week two i created this blog and edited my profile.
Since i'm a bit of a "figure it out as i go along" type of person, i reckon step 7 1/2, Play!, will be the easiest for me. With things like MySpace i best learn how to get it to look the way i want by fiddling around until it's the way i want it to be. Although while playing i often use step 6 by finding ideas and tutorials in books and on other sites.
Initially while i was watching the slide show i was torn between steps 2 (because i'm not usually very motivated) and 4 (because i'm always doubting myself), but seeing the first line of this post i think #4 will be my biggest obstacle. Lack of confidence causes me to constantly change my mind and doubt things like whether or not i'll remember what i've learned.
I wouldn't say these first two weeks were "fun", more informative than my idea of fun, but i have high hopes for the week when we really dig in to things like Flikr, Rollyo, and Delicious.
I hope i've made myself clear.
p.s. i'd appreciate the best buy gift card if i complete the program
In week one i read about the wiki article about what library 2.0 is. Good thing too, because i read a few references about it while working on OPL's MySpace, but never knew quite what it was. I also watched the slide show about the 7 1/2 Habits of Highly effective learners.
In week two i created this blog and edited my profile.
Since i'm a bit of a "figure it out as i go along" type of person, i reckon step 7 1/2, Play!, will be the easiest for me. With things like MySpace i best learn how to get it to look the way i want by fiddling around until it's the way i want it to be. Although while playing i often use step 6 by finding ideas and tutorials in books and on other sites.
Initially while i was watching the slide show i was torn between steps 2 (because i'm not usually very motivated) and 4 (because i'm always doubting myself), but seeing the first line of this post i think #4 will be my biggest obstacle. Lack of confidence causes me to constantly change my mind and doubt things like whether or not i'll remember what i've learned.
I wouldn't say these first two weeks were "fun", more informative than my idea of fun, but i have high hopes for the week when we really dig in to things like Flikr, Rollyo, and Delicious.
I hope i've made myself clear.
p.s. i'd appreciate the best buy gift card if i complete the program
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