Discovery Task #7& 8: RSS Feeds

I have not had much interaction with RSS feeds, so I am looking forward to these tasks…

7. Check out one of the following RSS tutorials.
Bloglines Tutorial (how to keep up with dozens of blogs everyday) – This online tutorial walks you through how to setup a Bloglines account and add newsfeeds. Follow Steps 1 to 3 to set up your Bloglines account. Steps 4 – 9 are optional and cover how to subscribe to different types of feeds (podcasts, Flickr albums, etc)Follow the discovery resources above to learn more about RSS and newsreaders.
And/or
Add RSS Feeds to Bloglines (a You Tube video)

Checked out the first one… basically a walk-through with images of signing up with Bloglines.com and subscribing to RSS feeds… Very well done.

8. Create a free online Bloglines account for yourself and subscribe to several newsfeeds with your Bloglines reader. See Using Bloglines Tutorial steps 1-3 for instructions. Don’t forget to blog about your RSS experience on your personal blog!

Signed up and grabbed a few feeds. I am very impressed with the functionality and ease of use the Bloglines interface provides. This has definitely become my default RSS feed browser!

Another two tasks toward my new laptop in the bag…

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Webolution – Discovery Task #5 & 6: Flickr

5. Take the Flickr tour.
or try this Flickr Tutorial from Mediamazine

I am already familiar with Flickr, at least for viewing images. I looked at the tour briefly, and I think I will check out the tutorial in the hopes of finding interesting uses for Flickr. That’s the really cool thing about Web 2.0 – it’s not just about using new websites and online applications, etc.

It’s more about finding interesting ways to use a personalized set of apps/sites together in synergy in order to create a vastly more useful (and entertaining) internet experience…

6. Blog about your Flickr experience and an interesting image you found.

I went looking for LOL Cats and I found one:

If you are not familiar with LOLCat phenomenon in general, you need to check out the whole concept via the I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? blog…

Meanwhile, I ended up staying up into the wee hours image editing, uploading, and organizing a set of photos of my grandparents’ house (which no longer exists…) It is a public set of photos, which you can check out here, if you are so inclined…

That is all. I’m going to bed.

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MCPLD – Library Webolution

Welcome to the Library Bob blog, such as it is… The impetus for this blog can be explained by the above banner… Click on it to go to that blog or click here…

Anyway, follow along as I work my way through the MCPLD Webolution project and on to the prize of a new laptop…. Watch me trick Fred out of his Fruity Pebbles…

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Update: Nancy (Head of Automation & Info Technology – MCPLD) is adding staff blogs to the blogroll on the Webolution blog, so I won’t repeat the effort here… any blogs that continue to be updated after this project is over may be reconsidered for addition to the Library Bob blogroll…

Best blog ever…

Take a few minutes (right now… do it) and head on over to Wil Wheaton’s blog and check it out. For those of you who don’t know, or might not remember, Wil is perhaps best known for playing the character Wesley Crusher on the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation. He also portayed the character Gordie Lachance in the movie Stand By Me.

Wil is a product of my generation [cue The Who], being (I believe) two years younger than me. By the content and tone of his posts, Wil and I share many hobbies as well as a very similar outlook on life. That being said, only one of us regularly appears on TV, even if only in re-runs…

The long and short of it all is Wil Wheaton’s blog is hilarious, snarky, and so very true… Do yourself a favor and check it out!

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Webolution – Discovery Task #1& 2: Introduction

Ok, here we go….

Task 1. Read this blog and familiarize yourself with the project.

It looks like it’s going to be fun, especially when I win the laptop at the end! Ok, a guy can dream… As I have already been spending too much time immersing myself in Web 2.0 stuff, it’s kinda nice that I am now officially being paid to do it… I love this job!

Task 2. Read Stephen Abram’s 43 Things I might want to do this year from which Helene Blowers program at PLCMC was loosely based. There are some interesting links to check out at the end of the .PDF document. I will comment on them as I get to them, and some of them at least will certainly be part of the Webolution project.

Done and done….

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