Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Thing 9: Sharing - slides, photos, databases
Create and Share Slideshows
I imported a PowerPoint presentation I’d made earlier about graphic novels for teens and/or graphic novels that teens read. Importing the file was straightforward, certainly simpler than learning how to make a presentation using a new interface.
Sharing Photos
I might try this one later. I might not. I’m a tempeh [...]
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Thing 7: Online Image Generators
I tried several different sites for this one.
First I tried a Holiday Monster generator, which I liked until it insisted on adding a message, my name and email, and my friend’s name and email. I used @example.com, just to allow the form to validate (all emails to that domain are automatically discarded), but there [...]
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Thing 6: Flickr mashups redux
Oh, these last few weeks….
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
Thing 6: Flickr mashups
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
Thing 5: Flickr
Option C: a bit of both.
I’m a big fan of Flickr’s interesting photos from the last 7 days (in spite of its tendency to, after several reloads, threaten to reduce beauty to cliché: sunrises, snowy landscapes, raindrops in spiderwebs, cities at night, all vividly colored) and two of the ones featured were of raindrops.
“Across the [...]
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Thing 3: Blog Search Tools
I tried my first search on Technorati, Google Blog Search, BlogPulse, and Bloglines.
Unfortunately I was underwhelmed by all four, most likely because of the search terms (”inauguration booklist”).
Technorati returned three results, all of them irrelevant. Google Blog Search returned 3,737 results, and of the first 10 only one was relevant. BlogPulse returned 13 results, but [...]
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Thing 2: What is Web 2.0?
I typically have some desk time where I’m not helping patrons; I can use that spare time to work on drafting 23 Things posts until they’re ready to publish.
I’m fond of Web 2.0 tools, esp. Flickr and Youtube but also blogs and wikis, so I wanted to familiarize myself with more of the tools available. [...]
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Thing 1 — Set up a blog
So this is my 23 things blog, set up.
This makes something like the tenth blog I’ve had now … the last time I tried LiveJournal they wanted to charge a yearly fee to allow customizable CSS; Blogger is surprisingly weak given that it’s owned by Google (its newer & faster layouts are all invalid XHTML, [...]
