Week 5 #11

To brouse the Web2.0 awards list I clicked on the "short list". I selected the music catagoy and broused Last.fm, MusicStrand and Upto11.. Well I wasn't in any of those sites very long because I didn't recognize any of the musical groups they were into. Youngsters I presumed.

Now the video category seemed like it might be fun so I went to Dailymotion.com and viewed a couple of video clips and thought it was pretty entertaining. I think I saw part of "Wii would like to play" on television - sure is clever and entertaining advertising.

Week 5: Play Week #10

This exercise made me feel like groundhogs should just stay underground. Always touted as easy, the two sites I explored wouldn't let me download my silly picture! Once again I had to seek assistance only to find out that the image had to be jpeg for it to work. I found one, it worked, and I tried to save the image so I could load it into my blog. I have no idea where it went. Let's see if I can find it - there it is! I guess you can tell I used "Frames". This is an example of a retired SJSU librarian (smile).
http://www.bighugelabs.com/flickr/frame.php

Revisiting Week 4 - #9

I'm back and recovered from exploring Technorati, Feedster, etc. I must say it was a bit overwhelming for someone who doesn't venture out much. I went to the S.J. Mercury site and added the travel section to my bloglines account. Somewhere I picked up a local weather feed and thought that might be handy so I added it to my bloglines account, all with a little navigational help from a coworker. Thank goodness that's done!

Week 4: RSS & Newsreaders #8

I'm so NOT techno savy it makes me laugh. I set up my blog lines newsreader account, feeling proud because it seemed so easy, and then logged off. I had selected several joke, news, and finance feeds so this week I checked my blog to see if my feeds were coming through (are you with me?) and I couldn't find them. Of course I thought I must have done something wrong but didn't know what so I waited for the workshop. After attending the walk-in workshop Christine informed me that the RSS feeds have nothing to do with my blog.

While playing with the RSS feed search engines I mananged to get confused as to where I was in the Internet world and couldn't back out to reorientate. (still laughing at myself) After that experience I can't tell you that any of those sites were easy for me. Lots of interesting stuff to look at for sure.

I need to pop back into my hole now and meditate. I think I'm over stimulated ... or is that the sugar high from the bake sale?

Revisiting Week 3

Let me see if I can get a picture of myself and some of my friends up here just for grins and giggles. Looking good!