Task 13: Del.icio.us

I like Del.icio.us.
I have tried to use it a couple of years ago, but I didnt stick with it. This time I have added the toolbar to my browser, and it has its own menu drop down, which is a LOT more convenient so I am pretty sure I will keep using it now.
I like that you can find so many good websites, I have already accumulated a lot of interesting reading to do later YAY!

Task 12: LibriVox

Sounds like it could be a good idea, but as I was looking at the site, browsing through a collection mostly consisting of books I do not find interesting, I was starting to wonder about the part on the homepage that said volunteer, meaning anyone could have recorded these books, so I thought this would be interesting, if you happened to want to listen to a book, only to download a recording and it be recorded by someone with a voice you find annoying. So I decided to try this, and the first file I listen to...
I do not like LibriVox

Task 11: Google Books

Less of a social networking site than Library Thing, and more for research and information about books. Has its own appeal even though it is not so user friendly as Library Thing.
I found the Library Partners information interesting, as this is closely related to what I do.

Task 10: library Thing

Extremely easy to join and use. Although it's not the prettiest looking website, it seems to offer quite a lot of interesting options. Despite all the wonderful things available on the website, and the strange case of excitement about all the things I could do, I just dont know if i'll be motivated to keep returning to the website, I would prefer if it was an app on facebook, haha, just for the convenience and the fact that I would rather share my reading list with friends, and I know my friends would not join Library Thing.

Task 10: Library Thing

Task 7 : blog commenting

This was good - to have a look at what other people are doing and saying, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. At the moment there weren't a lot of blog post, but it will get more interesting as everyone starts to do more - I will definitely continue to visit other people's blogs along the way.

It was weird to comment anonymously on anonymous blogs, I preferred reading the blogs by the people who introduced themselves, or that I already knew. Kind of ironic considering I am writing an anonymous blog.

Using Picasa

I didn't download Picasa to do this task. I personally don't think it is as good as Flickr, but there are some possible benefits it has over Flickr like the file management/uploading, and face recognition (maybe Flickr has that too?). The 'where in the world' game was not too good, since you come across a lot of people's strange, personal, and generally just bad photos...
When browsing photos in Picasa, Firefox often froze and reacted strangely. When posting the photo to this blog from the Picasa blogging tool, it didn't have anywhere near the same ease of use, or editing options as Flickr.

Task 6 : Picasa - Smile.

For some reason, the time zone on my blog account changed...?

Using Flickr.... ¿

AHHH forgot the user names and passwords of all the accounts I had currently had to join up to this point, including the password for this blog, yahoo account, and flickr and had to reset them all!!! I wish there weren't so many accounts that had to be created for this...


Looking at Flickr at the moment, it looks like a good resource if you regularly take photos you like to post online, or are really into photography. Generally I just use facebook to share my photos online, and I dont see the point of having multiple accounts to do the same thing, even if there is more personalisation and organisational tools on Flickr, basically it looks like it could take a lot of time to use it properly, and I am just not that into photos or photography.

Task 5 - Flickr : Arbor Day - 'Frognal'

Frognal
Originally uploaded by Nad

Set up my blog to my flickr account and found a photo from Arbor Day that I like...

Once I knew what I was doing, connecting the accounts was actually easy.