RSS Feeds

I'm doing 2 posts for exercise 7. This is the RSS feeds themselves. I understood what they were so the philosophy of the exercise was not a mystery, but I did once again struggle with the practice. I have learnt 2 things. The first is not to rush, just because the computer goes at the speed of light doesn't mean I have to. Secondly - READ THE SCREEN - how often have I heard that. I have managed to set up 10 feeds, but I will go back later and delete most of them. Who has the time. Also having to remember to go to another place to read them is a bit daunting memorywise. i know why people want all their elife in 1 place. It's all about big daddy

Exercise 6 ebooks and similar

I remember talking about ebooks in the mid 1990s. They seemed to hold such promise, sure there were problems, battery life was short, the screen flickered, there were few titles available, but this could all be overcome surely. Well ebooks flared briefly and then appeared to disappear for a decade. Now they are back, last year's Sony ebook reader, this year's Kindle. Old problems have been sorted, new ones introduced - mainly around the ergonomics of use, the ability to riffle throgh the text, to jump backwards and forwards, however, these are minor matters. The single main advantage as I see it is the ability to be able to increase the size of the font. In one swoop opening up the entire world of literature to those condemned to use large print.Those who say "I will never read off a computer screen" miss the point and confuse the medium with the message, reading is reading. Look at the rows of books marching endlessly into the distance in the library. What will the view be like in 5 years time, probably not much different, but who would be brave enough to forecast that look in 10 years time. Tomorrow, Monday 15th Sept the firm Plastic Logic will release its E-Newspaper, a light weight plastic screen. We are living through the beginning of yet another revolution, one that will utterly change the way we provide our service, but will enhance the way we work with our customers.

See I can do this a second time!!

Another mission, I must go back and see if I can repeat this. Easy to do with Sarah sitting beside me, but quite difficult to work through I found. My problem was getting a photo from Fickr to somewhere I could then lad on to the mashup site for jigsaws

I thought I had if cracked, I followed the adive to flag this photo, which I did to a number I thought would make excellently challenging jigsaws. After flagging 6 or so photos I then went to look for this grouping I had created - nothing anywhere. After several deep breaths I read the help screen associated with flagging. turns out this function alerts the operators of Flickr of objectionable photos. Ah well at least I leaned something!!

Maya in new dress August 2008

Final effort, a photo taken from an email, loaded onto me H drive and then uploaded to Flickr, seems to me to be the ultimate step, good to have been able to achieve 3 different photo posts from 3 different sources.

Of course there is the question about posting photos of family and friends in a oublic domain. I am not sure about this and may end up deleting this one. I'll see. I guess the best practice is to make family photos restricted to family and friends - gives a whole nes meaning to holiday snaps.`

Maya in new dress August 2008
Originally uploaded by rainyday.day6

temp library, temp Area Office and demolition of old bu (17)

temp library, temp Area Office and demolition of old bu (17)
Originally uploaded by rainyday.day6

OK so this is the next step, taking a photo from somewhere on one of the library drives - I 'm not quite sure how I found it, but no doubt I can explore that thought later.

This seemed to be pretty straight forward, although I will need to keep practicing so that I can remember all the steps.

Volubilis

IMG_2527 volubilis
Originally uploaded by willemmas

A great city near Fez in Morocco

Well here I am at exercise 3, thank goodness for catch up week. I have had 1 shot at setting up a Flickr account a couple of years ago, then forgot both the login and password - both written down this time. Being able to manage photos electronically like Flickr allows is something I have long wanted to do, so I have real incentive to get on with it. This photo of columns from the Roman City of Volubilis was taken from the Flickr collection, easy to find by searching the word Volubilis. The 1st photo I tried to blog would not allow me to, so there was 1 learning straight away. I also tried searching under ruins, the 1st photo up was a very perky green frog - do some people not understand what the word tag means? Sarah Roberts was a great help, as in invaluable getting me to this spot. My first blog post said 50 words a day would be a doddle - I retract that unresevedly.