THING 5

How

is this?

Using Flickr images for making posters is quite obvious.
Our library hours sign tends to fade in the
glass of the outside door so we frequently
make a new one. Using Flickr letter images might just
make folks do a double-take and notice our hours anew!

I guess I would only make certain photos
or images public on Flickr; to protect the innocent
(just kidding). It seems prudent to ask the permission
of folks to publish their images, because the pictures
become property of the public domain.

Photography is a fave of mine. I will have to spend
more time in my Flickr account.

BETWEEN Things

See that Big Beautiful RSS button (Really Simple Syndication)
in the right-hand column? That happened with
the son's help. (digital age: 16 years)

How? NOW GET THIS: Instructions, teenage style:
"Mom, go to Google. Type: 'HTML' in search box."

Well, "DAAH" or "D'OH!" per Homer Simpson.
(It's the mimic/copy, trial & error method!
Digital beings do it ALL the time.)

We simply copied an example HTML text from this
tutorial and grabbed the RSS picture from another spot.

SHAKE & BAKE.
(Do copyright laws apply here in the learning-to-blog world?
Answer: Mom, the copyright police can't look through everything!)

"Son, what happens to that RSS button if the website
we got it from is deleted?" Response,"There will just
be an X in the corner of an empty square."

I think the same thing will happen on this blog if I
deleted my avatar on Yahoo.

Note that I figured out how to edit the italicized font.
Son helped me with that too. As I suspected, I had
inadvertently made italicized font part of the template.

On to THING 5.

See the "GAMES" link to Becky's Flickr
image-Sudoku in the right-hand column?
That's my first attempt to do THING 5!
Can you figure out how to play?

p.s. The word "PREFECTIONIST" above Ms. Avatar (who I moved because she was lost on the bottom of the page) was done on purpose to remind me not to get so serious or be too much of a perfectionist!

THING 4

Having a Flickr account happened for me by default when my pics were migrated from Yahoo to Flickr last year. I had actually used the Yahoo site to share documents with members of a scholarship committee. Some members were in another part of the USA and some where in South America. Everyone could access the docs anytime and anywhere there was Internet. It worked great for the semi-collaborative activity of reviewing applications!

THING 3, Continued

Ok, I figured out how to add the RSS feeds for my blog,
two other librarian blogs (1 and 2) and our official blog
23 things on a stick to my Google aggregator.
WOO HOO!

I am going to try to figure out how to get that
orange RSS icon on my blog. Everyone should
have one of those...the "Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)"
thing is not very user friendly, especially for the
more visual-object orientated folks, which is...like
everyone who uses a computer!

(and when I get time, I am going to figure out
why all my posts are in italic, presumably something
about the way I set up this blog.)

THING 3

About a year ago I downloaded an aggregator that
would collect new podcasts. I still don't understand
how to really make that work. My dial-up service
at home isn't conducive for stuff like that, BUT
RSS is not quite so power hungry and I think I
can do this! Here goes>>>>>>

THING 2

Didn't Dr. Seuss write about Thing 1 and Thing 2
in the Cat in the Hat? They were mischief-makers
weren't they? Hmmm...

In Stephen Abram's interview he remarked that
one can always find the time to do what we want,
like smoking, but he didn't say how hard it can
be to create new habits, new ways to think.
One needs both the time (21 days to a habit)
and the desire to change.

Abram also said to look for the unintended
consequences of learning 23 Things on a Stick.
Like my mind wandering to the possible
applications of some of these things
in reaching out to one's community?

On the Internet our chimp-like fingers and
trapeze hands catch stuff mostly by
accident.

I must say, this 23 thing stuff has inspired me
to try my hand at creating a presentation
(Powerpoint? YouTube?) about how to
order books from our online library catalog.

I think the powerpoint idea is a direct
result of working through these 23
things!

On to Thing 3.

Lost and Found

My previous blog entry was hidden
for a while.

Guess I had to push the "publish"
button. The post came out of hiding
by publishing so I suppose I must
carry on with it all.