Thing #5: Flickr

Neat. A photo sharing COMMUNITY where people actually network about their photos. This site is a bit like YouTube for me. I can "waste" hours at a time just looking, reading comments, and jumping from one thing to another. It's a sickness.

I'd like to upload some photos. Actually, I'd like to transfer photos from another photo sharing site, but I don't seem to have that option. Grrr.... I uploaded some photos I had saved on my hard drive, but I still can't figure out how to import photos from another site. I already have all my photos in one spot, and it would be nice to just transfer them over. Otherwise, my photos are all over the place, saved here and there. What a hassle it would be to to upload from different hard drives and discs!



It IS very cool that you can take a photo with your cell and email it to Flickr to have it instantly published in your photos. I didn't know that! I can't wait to use THAT feature.

On to Thing 6...

Things 1-4: Violating the Rules Already

I think somewhere in the directions for the 23 Things, I'm reminded not to combine Things...to make a separate post for each one. Perhaps the Kickball Captains will forgive me for combining these first four...

Things 1-3: The creation of this blog and my previous entry completes Things 1-3. So far, so good! No complaints, except I can't seem to make my av any bigger. I want it as big as possible so I can admire it (since I don't really look like that!). What other avatar tools are out there--besides using a REAL photo (Eeek!) of me?

Oh, and it seems that the hardest part of starting a blog is coming up with a clever name for it. I've encountered this before when having to create usernames. As soon as I finally pick something, I see other people's great monikers and think, "D'oh! Why didn't *I* think of that??? Or something just as clever???"

Thing 4: Registering my blog with VWB was easy. The only thought it took was creating a suitable email title and keeping the blog name vs the blog URL straight. *gives self thumbs up*

Now on to Thing 5: Flickr...

23 Things: Just short of two dozen...

23 Things. I love it. Not 24. Not a round 20. That would be way too "formal," "structured," "ordered." It's a high enough number to feel a sense of accomplishment, but not so high as to seem unattainable.

What IS (or should it be ARE) 23 Things? Simply and in my words, it's a way for me and other people to explore and play with 23 different Web tools/applications that the average 10 year-old to twenty-something probably uses daily but that I've been cluelessly in the "duh" mode about. Okay, yeah...I've used some of them, but by no means have I attained "goddess" status in any of them.

23 Things, specifically, was created by Spring Branch ISD Library Information Services (A.K.A. the trio of "Head Honchos" of the SBISD libraries, led by Texas Librarian of the Year (TLA), the fabulous Dr. B.) for librarians and other SBISD employees, and even non-district folks, to get out of the larval "duh" stage when it comes to Web 2.0 and Library 2.0. They modified and adapted it from other sources like Stephen Abram's article, "43 Things I (or You) might want to do this year" (Information Outlook - February 2006) and the website 43 Things. You can find out lots more about it at Library2Play and this blog entry.