#16 Wikis

I thought the Commoncraft video on You Tube was by far the simplest explanation of wikis.

I would consider using it for a family history project I'm conducting with two other family members - one in Canada and another in Ireland. The emails, copies of emails, photographs and documents are getting out of control. It's getting very difficult to keep track of who has what. This would be a simple way for each of us to add our latest discoveries and be able to make additions/corrections as we go along.

#14 Technorati

This would be a great tool for searching for special interest blogs and would also be very useful for bloggers wanting to increase traffic to their blogs and or simply interact with others with similar interests.

I might use it to search for blogs but would definitely wouldn't want my posts tagged and included in technorati's web crawl. Way too public for my liking.

#13 del.icio.us

No more bookmarks and favourite websites will be lost with computer crashes or new computers: I now have a del.icio.us account.

#11 All about LibraryThing

I spent the last three hours at this site and would have been there longer if hunger hadn't driven me away.

Love all the features, particularly the recommendations. I read very little fiction - not because I don't enjoy a good story -but because I struggle to find topics that hold my interest. Even fiction databases miss the mark with their recommendations. However, Library Thing was spot on! From the very few fiction books I entered it found others I'd read and enjoyed and offered a plethora of new titles I'm keen to explore.

Seriously addictive site!

Warning sign care of Warning Label Generator

For the cat people

Off topic but I couldn't resist.

#10 Play around with Image Generators

Thanks to Punk Rock Jacket Generator.


Oh, I could have so much fun with this one! Best move right along...

To The New Drug Generator

"One day they will have a pill for everything. To keep up with the unending demand for pharmaceuticals we've developed the New Drug Generator, which will not only provide you with a cure, but also a disease and the requisite side-effects."


You click the pill on site and it generates a new drug, such as this one:
Dumovir
(for Stoicplastosa )
Potential side effects: acromegaly, memory loss, memory loss, and justified paranoia.

On the more useful note I found a genealogy chart generator and used a blog header generator to add the header picture on my blog. Also went searching for mind map generators and particularly liked the newspaper clip generator.

I had no idea all those graphics on blogs were so easy to generate. This could become addictive!

#9 Finding Feeds

The discovery exercises are a bit of fun but I'm so keen on blogging about them.

News feeds? They are certainly a great tool for keeping abreast of your favourite topics, but I can only dream of having the time to put them to use.

If I wanted to keep up with a particular news item I'd be more inclined to set up individual Google news alerts, simply for ease of use.

Deb also showed me how to add feeds directly to Internet Explorer browser. That seemed the simplest of all.

#8 RSS feeds

A very simple process made unnecessarily difficult by the tutorial. Trying to follow it was akin to reading a tax return. It reminded me of a cartoon - which I can't publish here for copyright reasons - but I'll cheat by posting a link.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sluggerotoole/153603564/

When I eventually gave up on the tutorials (which seemed to have outdated screenshots) and just worked it out myself it was a much easier process.

My current blogroll is in the sidebar. The public url is:
http://www.bloglines.com/public/Ls20
I'll add the other staff members as they create their blogs.

I always wondered how you set up RSS feeds and could have been using this for years to keep up with the blogs and websites I read regularly. I will also have hours of delight organising all those sites into categories and folders. Plus I might just finally get around to setting up a news feed with google for my favourite topics.

Quite enjoyed this topic.

# 7 Blog about technology

‘Technology for toddlers’ scheme risks creating a screen-addict

Hopefully will be back to blog about it later.

source:
‘http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article3864656.ece

#6 More Flickr Fun - Trading card

#6 More Flickr fun - Antrim Moasic

A bit of fun creating scenes from Antrim, Northern Ireland with FD toys' moasic maker.

1. "Crystal Clear"!!!!!, 2. Deer Park Bridge, 3. Belfast Castle, 4. It's A Thin Line Between Love And HDR, 5. "Forgotten"2, 6. "Moravian Graveyard", 7. "Odd One Out"!!!!, 8. Barbican!, 9. Bluebells, 10. Giants Causeway HDR, 11. "Glenariff Glen Waterfall", 12. Carrick-a-rede Rope Bridge, Causeway Coast, 13. Gracehill Primary School
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.

#5 flickr

steeple round tower in antrim, northern ireland, originally uploaded by sweetghoti

Flicker's blogging took certainly makes photo blogging easier.

The name was the hardest part

So I settled for something simple.