Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Excercise #5 con. 2/13/07

Well, the link to the photo did not work on my first go-round! Sorry to all of you who were waiting with breathless anticipation. I will have to go back into the instructions and look that one over again. I think I forgot that I have to link it...

Here is ItalianGerry's photo again (maybe)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/italiangerry/337240709/in/pool-librarypostcards/

Well, there it is now, but what I can see in my draft that is that I have the URL in there twice, and i am not sure which one is actually activitated. I'll try another photo later and see if that works out better.

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

exercise #5 week 3 Well, I have read about and played around in Flickr, but since I do not even have a digital camera I doubt that I will be uploading and sharing any of my photos, but I have seen some I like in Flickr. I know I have looked at other photosharing websites before, just when doing my own websurfing. One of the links from the Web 2.0 page took me to a site for old postcards of libraries that I enjoyed looking through. Many of them were old hand-colored and tinted postcards that are often quite beautiful I sent a link for one of them to one of my co-workers who likes old postcards also. Here is the link for a view of the Los Angeles Public Library, http://www.flickr.com/photos/italiangerry/337240709/in/pool-librarypostcards/

It was posted by ItalianGerry, who has contributed many of the postcards on this site, and also has a link to his other photos, which I intend to peruse further.

Well, obviously I am not moving right along with this since I started the above post and saved it as a draft on February 6. And I am just now getting back to it (Feb. 13) So I will go ahead and publish this, and then continue with Flickr.

Actually "blogging" is not really something that has ever interested me too much. Although I have looked at some photography sites that I like, and a few times I have stumbled into someone's blog because it has shown up when I was looking through the web for something else that I am interested in. The blogs that I have read about that sound of more interest are from people in regions where there is a lot of upheaval and/or the media is very restricted so one of the few ways people can communicate is on their computers. I was discussing this idea with one of my coworkers who told me about a blog that he reads often in which people with literary interests get a chance to do their writing and there are readers who follow it regularly and comment. He said there are a couple of very talented writers on that site, so that sound useful, this way someone who cannot get noticed or published by the mainstream has a venue for their interests (and an appreciative audience). But in spite of all that, setting this up is not something that I would have done on my own...so I guess Learning 2.0 has moved me into another realm!