A picture I found on Flickr

Forget Dewey! Now we know the solution for those, "Ummm...it had a blue cover" reference queries. And it looks so pretty!

Interestingness

Apparently, this is my most "Interesting" photo on my Flickr page. I think the "interestingness" must be based on a combination of number of times viewed and number of comments. This one got to the top of my list because my sister made a comment, so I had views and comments. I had another one which had more views, but this one was rated the most "interesting". Interesting.

Blogroll please, and a latte, take away.....

Goodness gracious me! This bloglines stuff seems pretty complicated. It has taken me a while but I think I've managed to publish a Bloglines Blog. A blog for the blogs I like to read...the mind bloggles.

My Bloglines page, I hope!

There really are a lot of things you need to sign up for to achieve some of these technological niceties, I think you need to be quite determined sometimes. They're not the sort of thing many people would want to spend an hour or two signing up for just to try out. I guess that's where we come in. Our role could be as a "concierge" for current technology, helping explain to people what some of these things are for, and helping them to determine whether it's going to be useful to them, before even helping them to start out.

It's been fun trying out some of these new things, and I'm starting to feel a bit more 21st century after getting behind on this stuff in the last few years (my little country town only got broadband in the last six months). Yikes!

Technology

I did a google search on "technology" and the top result was the wikipedia entry for technology, in which I discovered an interesting new word.....

Technicism:
Generally, technicism is an over reliance or overconfidence in technology as a benefactor of society.

I think we do a bit of that, just look at teenagers with their mobile phones! You know there's a generation gap when...

But there's certainly a lot of current technology which I wouldn't want to live without. The internet generally, and my favourite gizmo of all time, my lovely iPod. I particularly enjoy listening to podcasts, thanks to technology, they're all there waiting for me whenever I have some time to relax. I think technology works best when it finds a real human need or want, and isn't just invention for the sake of invention.

It can also be a fickle friend, any iPod users who are running Windows Vista...if you have any tips for me on how to help them get along, I'd love to hear them!

Flickr fun with Bubblr

I found this tool on the Flickrbits Webapps page. If you try this, make sure you check it all before you finish, as the finished product can't be edited, and remains on the page for all to see (typos and all!)...ooops!

Flickr

I've been exploring Flickr since I came back from the Web 2.0 seminar at the State Library in July, (I was pretty addicted for a while), so I've done a few things since then. But this week I've tried some new Flickr toys like the Motivational poster maker on the BigHugeLabs site. This is what I ended up with:

It's a bit cheesy isn't it? I used a photo of some books from our collection, which I uploaded to Flickr. I aslo tried the Montager, but couldn't get it to work. There were'nt many options on the page, so I'm not sure where I went wrong. I've also had trouble getting the link to Mappr to work. If anyone has any tips on these I'd appreciate comments.

I've found that it's a little time consuming when you're starting with these things, as you have to sign up and there's usually an email to reply to etc etc...but once you're set up it's pretty easy to use, and I find myself getting lost for a while sometimes in the Explore page, especially if I start looking at other people's favourites....so many photos!

A note to my fellow Glenelg bloggers, I've started a Flickr group with the highly original title of "Glenelg Libraries", so please join in! You'll find it here

I really like Flickr. It's great fun for browsing and playing, and it has even motivated me to read the instruction manual for my camera again!


Apart from the tool I used to create the heading above, which I found here , one of my favourite flickr tools is from BigHugeLabs. It's a Palette Generator, which automatically generates a palette of colours based on any photo you choose from your Flickr library. Most importantly, it gives you the HTML codes for the colours, which you can cut and paste into Blogger, to change the colours of your Blog. It all looks beautiful because the colours are all in the lovely tones of your favourite photograph.


Here's an example of one I've done:

Ping pong for everyone!

....and don't forget...no drinks on the pool table.