Thing #11 - LibraryThing

Please feel free to visit my personal library @ http://www.librarything.com/catalog/Techgirlwannabe

This is not something I will use, but it is nice to know about. I appreciate the time and opportunity to learn new things even if I don't think I will personally use it in my daily life.

Thing #10 - Play around with image generators

Not much time again this week so my image is not very exciting. It will have to do!

Thing #9 - Finding Feeds

I have spent way too much time today looking at the various feed search tools. I am like a kid in a candy store, and I need to get back to work. I explored all of the feeds suggested in the exercise, and I really liked Bloglines and Feedster the best. They seemed to be the easiest for me to search. Syndic8 was the most confusing for me. I'm not sure if it was because it was at the end of my discovery exercise and I was getting tired, or if it was just too much information presented in a format that was not pleasing to me. At any rate, when/if I need to look for newsfeeds I know where to go, and if I see the feed icon on a website that I regularly visit I know how to subscribe to it. This was the week I was most looking forward to and I learned a lot!

Thing #8 - Make life "real simple" with RSS and a newsreader

This was quite a task. I was consumed with wanting to read all of the feeds! There is so much information out there that it would be very easy to get sucked into the vortex and never come out! I was pleased to discover that many of the sites I regularly visit have feeds available so this will be useful to me if I can control myself and not subscribe to every feed I find interesting. I was finally able to pare my choices down to 15. We are supposed to include our public Bloglines URL to demonstrate our completion of this activity. The URL is http;//www.bloglines.com/public/USERNAME. To protect my privacy, I have not put my username in the URL. The 2.0 team knows who I am so they can insert my username to get to the correct location and see what feeds interest me. On to Thing #9!

Thing #7: Blog About Technology

I am an avid fan of technology. When I think of the new gadgets we have now compared to just 3-5 years ago I am amazed. It just blows my mind to be able to do wireless downloads of just about anything and at such high speeds. I am totally turning into one of "those" people that wants that new book on CD, music CD, DVD, or television show right now! Automobiles can now do the most amazing things. They can even parallel park themselves. We can exchange information and ideas at an astonishing pace. The list goes on and on. To be able to be in a time and place that allows us to take advantage of the marvels of technology is truly a blessing. However, this is true for me only when the technology works. I like my technology best when it is simple. The last two years I have really made an effort to keep current in the field of technology by reading books and magazines on the subject as well as subscribing to a number of technology related Podcasts.

Thing #6: More Flickr Fun

Oh my gosh! I had so much fun exploring some of the things you can do with photos and Flickr. I mainly spent my time checking out customsportsproducts.com. I could easily spend some serious money ordering some very customized Christmas gifts. The trading cards are cute, but heck you can even order jewelry, magazine covers, bobble heads, banners, calendars, etc. (Okay, so I am easily entertained!) It makes me just want to get out my camera and start shooting photographs. With all of the beautiful Fall colors out there even I am bound to get a decent picture or two. I feel some creative juices beginning to flow...

7718 - A19 Flyover

7718 - A19 Flyover, originally uploaded by M R Fletcher.

This weeks assignment was a bit of a challenge for me. I have been really busy and finding the time to do this exercise was difficult. Anyway, I picked this beautiful picture to blog about. I really admire people who have the skills to take night photos. I know nothing about photography and would be lost trying to figure out how to do it. However, this exercise and this picture have sparked an interest in me to maybe try to get some shots of particularly interesting Chrismas scenes this winter. What have I got to lose? Maybe some kind person will even give me some tips!