Just did a tour of the Flickr site. Seems pretty straight forward. Uploaded a couple of images. No personal photos due to my paranoia of posting things on the internet. I can see how Flickr would be a neat way to sort and organize digital photos. I really like the fact that I can control the privacy levels. Not enough of a tech whiz to know if their different privacy settings really mean anything. (How skilled would someone have to be to hack in, even on the highest privacy setting? I know rationally that it is extremely unlikely that anyone out there really cares about my personal life enough to try to get information about me in this way, but hey, remember I'm the mystery reader and many a plot has been built around someone being careless with their personal information.)
The images I uploaded are done by the artist Mary Engelbreit. She does great work. Lots of prints to do with reading, family, pets and just life in general. She uses bright colours that really catch my eye and I just love looking at her work. Right now at the top of where I am typing, there is a bunch of character lines that mean nothing to me. They appeared right after I uploaded the image. Will be interested to see if the image actually shows up on the blog or if it is just these meaningless (to me!) characters. Just checked and there is the actually picture on the blog page! Yeah! I like how the image looks as part of the blog post and will likely select more to add to future posts.
Just checked out some mashup sites. Pretty funny. I like the Bart Simpson chalkboard one. My kids will get a kick out of that one. Another fun one that I know of is the jibjab site (www.jibjab.com). It is a site that has song videos poking fun at American politics and culture. There are a number of their songs that you can upload photos into so that you (or whomever you choose!) is in the video. Very funny.
I tried the 'add link' function to add a link to the jibjab site but all I got was:
Doesn't look like a link to me. Not sure what I did wrong. A line of characters shows up on my edit page but here on the blog it's just blank. Anyway, it's well worth the effort of getting to the site. Lots of fun stuff there.
Not exactly sure how all this would be useful to me at work. I can't imagine ever having time to actually do to it! Maybe a photo slide show of branch activities? I could envision myself doing a mystery reader blog, giving book reviews of the books i'm reading. Adding a photo of each book cover would be good for all the visual learners out there!
