Webthing #9

The Topix feed finder was pretty useless, the Sindic8 was a bit better, because its search tool seemed to yield more interesting (to me) feeds. But I'm still not impressed with this whole RSS thing. Who has time to read all this stuff anyway? I didn't find any more feeds I wanted to add to my Bloglines account, but I do feel more informed about this technology.

RSS exercise

I had heard about RSS but never pursued it because I never really enjoyed reading blogs, nor do I really use internet headline resources for my daily news intake. I prefer to browse through a real paper newpaper while I drink my morning coffee.
But, I did it because I had to for the webthings challenge. I will force myself to occasionally look at my bloglines account and check some of my selected feeds and time will tell if this is a technology that I actually use. This was a time-consuming exercise and it will consume a great deal more time to make use of my bloglines account.
Perhaps, if I do use it for a while, I might be able to envision a way for it to contribute to my work and/or leisure life, rather than to waste more of it, which is how I feel about it right now!

Community Quilt

Community Quilt
Originally uploaded by militude

This beautiful quilt hangs in a prominant area of our library and was created to celebrate our library community. Staff member Tina Gunsaulis, a talented quilter, put this project together. I sewed together one of the squares. This photo is tagged oclwebthings in my Flickr account.

Queens Zoo: Mallard Ducks

Queens Zoo: Mallard Ducks
Originally uploaded by adrisbow

Here is someone else's photo from Flickr. I found it by searching keywords bird and public (in tags only). It's a nice photo and it was very nice of adrisbow to share it with the world. It's just ducky!

princess

princess
Originally uploaded by militude

OK, now I'm posting this into this blog directly from Flickr. Doesn't Princess look like a harmless little creature? Well, you would not believe the noise this cat can make, usually in the middle of the night. She's almost totally deaf so she (presumably) doesn't realize what a racket she makes.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Flickr experience

I'm learning how to play with Flickr photo program. This photo was uploaded from an hp image zone scan of a personal photo. I've opened a Flickr account and put this photo in my first set, but haven't figured out yet how to upload it from Flickr into this blog.

Habits of Lifelong learners

In effective lifelong learning, the most difficult habit to develop is an ability to retain laboratory lessons, or education-in-isolation. If I don't use it, I lose it. The easiest habit to develop is continuous and prolific reading, including reading (and other exposure to media) that is outside my comfort zone.

Test Post

This is my very first blog-authoring. It is part of a web 2.0 challenge at my work organization.