Thing 7

This was made with the Image Chef at http://www.imagechef.com/
No more tonight... I am going to play!!

Thing 6 - Flikr mashups

Mashup... this is a new one for me. I had heard the word and have been meaning to explore the concept, but never had the chance.
I played with some of the toys and ended up with this picture of my granddaughter in front of the jewelry display case at Sam's...
I have played with some of these before (inserting friend's picture in magazine covers, Stumble upon sites where these mashups are possible) but never under the title of "mashup". Another Web 2.0 term that is better explained in Wikipedia or in Webopedia.
I found some of the applications slow and still in an experimental state. Color picker was entertaining for a bit, the bighuge lab is where I found the mashup for the picture I posted. There are a variety of options there for all tastes - READ motivational posters, ID cards for library patrons, Mat maker for"framing" pictures... it'd take days to explore them all!
Let me try the letters now...

Nice... two granddaughters in one post!

I played with Splashr and ended up with these cats
http://splashr.com/show/slideshow/cat/25/
Way cool.

Thing 5

I went "Flickring" and discovered I already had an account, which I had to open when my daughter started trying out wedding dresses and wanted my opinion from afar. I went ahead and uploaded some pictures, which i left private since they were just tests of the editing capabilities of Flikr.
One thing I found annoying is that the pictures have to be seen one by one. I have the Firefox add-on Cooliris and this would let me look at ALL the pics at once on those pages full of thumbprints... I guess this is part of the Pro features? I'd have to go back and look again.
Since I've been looking at library furniture to improve my place, I did a search for "library furniture" but wasn't very successful. During the process I found this beauty, which I know some of you will be able to appreciate:


Taken from
http://flickr.com/photos/51035720546@N01/2962333065/

Yes, and I did check. They are available on Ebay if anybody is interested in one of these.

Thing 4

RSS finished... found Unshelved again, that for some reason stopped being delivered via email (did I miss something, perhaps?). Added a couple of RSS feeds, but, frankly, I doubt I will be able to keep up with them. It's all about TIME, right?
Now... how to I go about creating one of those RSS buttons in my blog?

Thing 3

I found this comment particularly interesting
“I blog in Spanish and English for different reasons. In English I blog to communicate my ideas and views, in Spanish, where for some unknown reason many more people comment, I write to learn. The collective intelligence of my commentators is greater than mine.”
I've had blogs up there for a bit but have never received any comments. Perhaps I should try in Spanish!
Well.. the same was true of websites I built 10-15 years ago. I set up counters to see how many people actually visited the site and was not pleased with the results. The tagging concept (also available for websites) works great and Google and Blogpulse actually pull out a lot of the NEFLIN 23 Things sites. If I were selling something (my media center, perhaps) I should be able to tag it properly to it moves up in the Google searches.
I get more hits on Facebook than I ever got on a webpage or a blog... more hits from Google groups than on Google. Go figure.

At the Technology Conference

Learning to use cell phones in education... text messages, video playing, picture taking, video recording... so many 21st century tools!

I don't bleed orange and blue...

But I am proud of the boys! Go Gators!