Thursday, March 27, 2008

RSS

creating the Bloglines account and the feeds using favourites was an easy task

coming up with the topics to feed was the challenge, do I have so little interests?
the topics I tried to pull up related to my hobbies were peoples views and accounts - today I did....
I have too much to fit into my day without reading someone elses.

I still cant come to grips with needing to be informing myself with opinions by people I quite frankly dont want to get to know and share ideas with over the web
Another reason to be sitting at the computer instead of getting out there interacting with the world and people on a real interface.

I would rather lie on my back on the grass with my children working out what we see in the shape of the clouds than read the views of a stranger who wants to share his knowledge about the myth of baby poo not smelling! I am still shaking my head - there are no words to articulate my thoughts - its mind boggling. One thing is for sure the web has allowed us all 5 minutes of fame.

Work application, as a source of immediate current information I am sure that RSS is invaluable - if the job descripton allows one time to read it all.

I am a cynic on this one
sorry
just not my thing
I like the quote for the day and the photos from the powerhouse but spare me the rest, please

Friday, March 7, 2008

flickr



This weeks adventure with Learning 2 is exploring flickr - amazing what images you can find


I am not sure if I would want to post mine to the world but it seems a great way for photographers to show their skills


I certainly with look at storing and sorting my photos, how far I share will be the question.





I loved the vegemite images in particular the "expensive" vegemite at first it looks like a creative image and when you read the tag you realise you need to look closer - the jar of vegemite was rung up for $1,135 - great photograpy - inspiring really and it was a good lesson in tagging - because it was not until I went back to upload that I realised the real impact of the photo.





check it out
http://flickr.com

search for expensive vegemite!

Today is a little celebration of our local library so I will try the "challenge" latter

Maybe the upload will even work!

all good fun