Thing 9: Technology & Managing Photos

I'm finding the photo sites quite time consuming to use. I've got a Picassa account with several roles of film pictures. However, when I uploaded the discs I put them in separate albums. Now I haven't figured out how to move the pictures to different albums unless I go back to the original discs and pick and choose. When I worked with the yahoo pictures, before their gallery site ended, they had a tray area where you could drag the uploaded pictures to organize them. At first I thought it odd, but now I see the editing advantages. I don't have a digital camera, but have the 45mm film processed for both prints and CDs, so maybe there's more latitude when uploading from the digital camera itself. Above is a photo taken on my phone, transferred to my T-Mobile album, saved to my work computer, and uploaded here. Its a picture of taken in New Mexico where I was vacationing last September.

Thing 7: Flickr

Here is a postcard made using Trading Card Maker. I noticed I already had a Flickr account from awhile back. I've been using Picasa lately though. The Flickr Color Pikr was nice. Some of the others I just didn't 'get.' I ended up in a video game. I've sort of figured out how to wrap the text around the inserted images and have re-edited to get rid of the html that caused underlining.

Thing 5: RSS Feeds

I understand that using Bloglines or other RSS feed aggregator can save time surfing. However, when I actually start viewing the news and articles, this takes up an enormous amount of my professional time. I discovered that I already had a Bloglines account which I set up a couple years ago when Steve Wilson, my then co-worker, suggested it. I guess I was too busy I edited my selections. I couldn't get into the feedster website. I found the other blog directories confusing. I made successful searches of blog articles, but didn't get the hang of subscribing to certain subject areas.
I have in the past created iGoogle accounts using FireFox browser. Here you can "add a tab" to your home page. It created a home page using the search term "Broward County Library." This page contains links to articles from: Unshelved, Librarian's e-library, Librarian.net, LIS News, Library Stuff, LII, Shifted Librarian, etc. just like an aggregator. I like the look of it.