RSS feeds: this has really opened a can of worms!

Well, there go all my excuses that I don't have time to stay on top of the news. Right now I'm on CBC's website, and its giving me step by step instructions on how I can get RSS feeds in an incredible number of subjects. I'm getting started now. I just reread the instructions for our assigment and its asking us to set up a bloglines newsreader account. I'm going to do this, but will likely add RSS to my yahoo account. I'm a member of two groups, and check the yahoo email daily; there is a limit to how complicated I'm willing to make my life. One of the things I'm really excited about is how much useful information I'm finding on other people's blogs. So thank you Pat for steering me to the Youtube RSS explanation; it was great! Now, on to exploring some more. Yes, I am having fun.

The new, Hockneyized Library and you

I must say that mashups were somewhat daunting. Thanks, Chris, for your pretty budgie image that led me to Hockney-ize family members, wind turbines, and finally (heaven forbid) the Library. I tried polaroid frames which led to pictures of columns and windows and I never did find the door! Then Flickr refused to recognize the url. But its in my photostream, so you'll see it if you are patient... If you have the time its easy to be creative with images because some of the tools are so simple. But some of them are complex, so "throwing something together" isn't really what its about. The image generators are amazing, all of them. It would take some indepth exploring to find what would be the most useful in our situation. To be honest... I wouldn't be doing this at work. I'd be doing it for myself; I would be interested in hearing how others would envision using it though.

Flying into Kyle

My son's g/f is visiting from New Brunswick. The last time he went to visit her, before Christmas, he was stuck on a train for 24 hours longer than he should have been (he swears he will never set foot on a train again). Now I'm checking WestJet's website and they are giving us a weather advisory, about Hurricane Kyle affecting flights into the Maritimes. Not sure what it is with our travel plans and the weather. She may end up staying here for an extra day... they won't mind! YZ

Flickr'd some images from SK

I've heard of Flickr, and now that I have some photos saved to the laptop, I could use them. I had a yahoo account already, so used that to jump into Flickr. Downloaded a couple of files and when I edited one to brighten it up and improve the focus, I added another one, just to edit it using picnik (or is it piknic). Then I created a short slide show. I found the Flickr very easy to use, very intuitive. I can see myself inviting my friends to share some of my travel photos. We could use slideshows to highlight library events, or our branches, when we have a booth at a public event.

Well, here I am in blogland

I can't help but learn something here. And considering that web2 has sort of swept over the landscape while I was busy doing other library things, I'm sure I will learn how to use it as it relates to the library. My concerns -- how to find time to do yet one more thing? Will something fall by the wayside? Considering I've got this far, I'm looking forward to seeing what I can do next. I have beside me "Blogging for dummies". (I kid you not) Yvonne