Friday, November 30, 2007

YouTube

As usual this was much more fun than I thought it would be. Everyone has heard horrid stories about what they show on YouTube. I visited New York City last week. I missed the Rockefeller Center tree lighting by one day. But there it was on YouTube. The video was a bit shaky and amateurish............but this is what you might get since anyone can post. I also typed in Tony Bennett and there he was...........singing away. I did find Susan and her fish story from the library. All of this is such an amazing learning experience. I am enjoying it very much.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Library Thing

I proved to myself that I need to write down the titles of the books I read. To list the last 3 books I read in Library Thing; I actually had to use Google to find the titles! I read so many things..........the title is the last thing I remember. Here is a website that I will actually use. I really like the tagging idea. These last 3 books all used the same tag (New York city history).......this proves that I need to get another genre! But I love New York City and I love its history. Life is short........eat dessert first and go to New York every year (which I do).

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Flickr not Flicker

I kept typing in Flicker.com (with the letter e) and would search Norway and get lots of shopping sites and cruise lines etc. I did not mind looking at the Norwegian sweaters and thinking about buying one of them. But I knew this was not quite with 2.0 had in mind for me. After a bit of whining I discovered that Flickr has no letter e. With this discovery I found beautiful pictures of Norwegian fjords which took my breath away.

RSS.......real simple?

RSS means Real Simple Syndication. It must be simple because I had several subscriptions on my home computer, but did not know I was doing something that would be a learning experience later. I did sign up for the Word of the Day and Quotes of the Day as well as the American Library Association. There were pictures of librarians on this website......and well......the people looked like librarians (not a bad thing). They looked safe and normal. So maybe apprehensions should continue, but maybe the kids are safer? than we think. Kim.............I did find the directions: "add subscriptions to at least two of your favorite krl bloggers" a bit vague. Thank you for helping to make that clearer.