Still RSS..

Well, still on RSS feeds! Had a look at Technorati and Topix.net but to be honest found them a bit confusing and what I could see didn't interest me much. I liked 'Google Blog Search' much better. I got the link off another participants blog (thank you, Cecilia B!). It just seemed much, much simpler to use than the other sites- and an uncluttered look, unlike the other sites. But, like Bloglines you have to search for what blogs you like. I guess this way, you won't find lots you want to subscribe to but never have the time to read, this way you can be disciplined and just search for a few!!

I feel like I need to use feeds more to be more comfortable with it. This has definitely made me and go and explore something new.

RSS and Bloglines

Well, I must start off by confessing that I have felt rather 'frazzled' doing this exercise! Perhaps it is just me, but I don't find Bloglines to be very user-friendly. Not as easy to use as Gmail or Blogger. I kept going round in circles and couldn't find my way back home! But I have managed to add five "feeds" so mission accomplished eventually. I do like the idea of feeds; it is great that instead of having to visit a dozen news websites I can get the latest news from each in one place. Very convenient. As it is something I don't do already we'll have to see if it sticks.

Technology

We just got a Skype phone over the weekend. I had to show my Dad how to type a message to a friend on Skype, rather than call them. It didn't take me long to figure it out, having used MSN for years, and when I said this to him he said "Yes, well you have to show me these things, I need to learn them." It was a reminder to me that I'm lucky as I am surrounded by techonology and have grown up with it, but not everyone has and so it's my turn to show him something, the way he has helped me with many, many things over the years!!

I use technology all the time- I have a TV and DVD recorder, a laptop I use to post on forums, watch videos on YouTube, keep in contact with my friends via e-mail, IM and social networking sites like FaceBook and MySpace. But I still learn new things all the time!

Mosiac

Well, I've spent rather a long time making a mosiac from bighugelabs.com. It's great that you can use photos from Flickr to use in your mosiac. So, as I have a Flickr account I saved photos to my favourites and then used the photos to make my mosiac. Sounds easy, but some users didn't want their photos used on applications outside Flickr which I didn't find out until I made my mosiac. I couldn't seem to choose what order I wanted my photos in my mosiac. So, I'm not very satisfied with my mosiac so I'm going to try again. If at first you don't succeed..

Edit: Aaaaand I had another go and like this second attempt much more than the last one.

Flickr

Start of Wisteria Lane
Originally uploaded by _KiwiSarah_

*Note to self: working on the Web 2.0 programme on a Monday morning, before lunch, isn't always the best time to do this! I've got about 4 different windows open and feel rather confuzzled!!*

Right, so I have a Flickr account and I've linked it to my blog. And this photo is mine so the credit to the photographer is me! I'm not sure if the hand is mine..I took this photo during the studio tour of Universal Studios back in March 2008. You ride around on a little cart and packed in with other people, and of course everyone is trying to take photos at the same time. This is at the beginning of Wisteria Lane, the set for the TV show 'Desperate Housewives'. This is all I saw though, unfortunately they don't take you down the actual set street.

Flickr is pretty easy to use. Originally I started off searching for 'San Francisco' which returned a hit of gazillions of photos (ok, not quite but you get what I mean!) and lots which weren't what I was looking for. But once I clicked on the tag 'San Francisco, California' I got much more relevant results. And uploading my photo was pretty easy, too. It's all step-by-step.

My first post!

Well, this is exciting isn't it, my first post! So, I've set up my blog. Took a few tries to get my photo up but got there in the end. This has taken a bit longer than I had planned, but I must confess to spending a little longer than "necessary" customising my blog!!
Well, onwards and upwards, on to task #3!