I have spent the last day or so playing with Flickr and del.icio.us and here is what I have to report. Flickr, which may not end up my “most favorite” of web tools, should ease some of my beading explanations. What I mean is that once a photo is uploaded, I can post it’s link on the blog so fellow beaders can “see what I mean.”
The following link http://www.flickr.com/help/blogging/#55 walks one through the posting to a blog process. To experience a bit of Flickr, check out my moose 11 post or click here. http://www.flickr.com/photos/alaskanbeader/sets/72157602151479428/
Last spring Dee, my good friend, fellow beader, and the photographer for my last pattern book Pristine’s Beaded Beauties; Wolves, Bats and Other Critters of Travel, and I took a set of how to do peyote stitch beading photos. Flickr may be a way to offer them to you. I will be looking into the details soon, I promise. (You see the photos are sitting in a computer about 20 feet way from me, but that 20 feet is not an easily surfed distance. — It is going to take some intentional effort, a lot of remembering, and a bit of learning.)
And now for del.icio.us — http://del.icio.us/ I am offering you the link to the site, because as a researcher at heart, I feel that I will be spending considerable time with this web tool. It is structured like the brainstorming webs that we were taught in school by the “strange” teachers. It is nearly like a game of whispered telephone tag, but where you see it in print, the distortion is minimal, and the wandering is great. While I do not yet specifically have “a” useful site from del.icio.us I am itching to get back and do a through web search on a string of search words that I have been developing for my new book. And just so you know that I haven’t forgotten that this is my beading blog, “Know you know why I don’t always get as much beading done as I would like, I wander off and get lost in thought.”
But the following article will show you Berk’s study on laughter Activating the Immune System — so go laugh it up folks.
http://www.holisticonline.com/Humor_Therapy/humor_therapy_benefits.htm
September 27, 2007 at 6:48 pm |
There are better photo gallery applications out there, but few (partly because they have so many users, but also because flickr is oriented around the social network aspects and sharing) offer the same level of connection and discovery that flickr has. I loved your moose set and left a comment on one of the photos, then I browsed to see what other moose photos there were and the moose-alaska-wildlife “cluster” http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/moose/clusters/wildlife-alaska-nature/ – which only becomes possible with enough pictures and tags in the system to make some sense– has some great stuff.
But then there’s this strange looking moose http://www.flickr.com/photos/dancinjul/1449006308/. who knew?
Another great aspect of flickr, like del.icio.us, is the multiplicity of feeds and other ways to get at your information and that of others. That allows the cool flickr applications I pointed to as well as allows you to more easily use your photos in other contexts– plugging them into a blog or web site for example– and lets other subscribe in their feed reader (as I did) so I can see if/when you add more…
del.icio.us is definitely one of those “must-have” kinds of tools for anyone who does research or is otherwise an informavore… as a personal tool it is excellent, as a tool to network and discover further resources and other people to connect with it is excellent… and it has all the re-usable goodness so bookmarks are not just a reference, but a living, breathing resource.
September 27, 2007 at 7:31 pm |
This is a lot better dancing moose as far as I am concerned. http://www.flickr.com/photos/micheleahin/144539726/