Week 5 #13 - Wiki

The dreaded widgets have appeared on my blog again, I hope they disappear as mysteriously as they have appeared. Other than that, editing the wiki and adding the blog address was relatively painless, rather scary at first as I was not too sure how to navigate to the favourite blogs page once I was logged in to edit. I guess wikis could really replace a lot of email attachments, instead of sending the document attached, point people to the wiki ... hmm will ponder wikis and their use some more.

Week 5 # 12 - Wiki, wiki

It was interesting to see what can be done with a wiki as I have always just thought of Wikipedia and not really considered it for other uses. The best illustration of the use of a wiki was the youtube video. The other aspects of wikis I noticed was that on many you have to register and login to edit them due to vandalism and the summer reading wiki is no longer used as reviews are posted on the catalogue. So they have their advantages and disadvantages.

I was unable to access Peter Blake's paper. In a library situation for customers I can see a use as a 'íf you liked this, then you will like this' situation, until as with the reviews they are attached to the catalogue record.

Week 4 #10 #11 - Flickr Fun ....

I created a library card using a Flickr image courtesy of 1bluecanoe and added a quote from Jane Austen, relevant to libraries.

Finding Flickr ok to use, the tagging aspect is a bit haphazard. For example, the teacups on the ceiling is tagged 'cups' while the library card teacup is tagged 'teacup' and sometimes the tags are spelled incorrectly, so an ok tool but not brilliant.

Moving on to #11. I have posted to another person's blog, see Week 4 #9, but will go and post to another also. An aspect of technology I like, well I do like FD toys, I also made a couple of cd covers and will go back to that but mainly I guess it is the convenience of the 24/7 from your home ability to access information.

Week 4 #9 - Cups on a roof

Cups on a roof, originally uploaded by Cazzydance.

What looked so simple and easy has been an absolute nightmare.
First of all I tried loading Flickr images from my blog, but the image never loaded just a link to it. The first time I was not logged in to Flickr using the training login. I tried again logged in to Flickr but again I would just get the link. So I tried logging into Flickr, adding my blog address to the training list of blogs, and loading an image that way. Three times the image loaded ok but into someone else's blog! On the 3rd attempt I checked and checked it was going to the correct blog but still it failed and the network connection failed everytime I tried to load images also. Incredibly frustrating, so I gave up and resorted to a glass of wine, well may be two.

Now I have created my own yahoo and Flickr account and am trying for an nth attempt. I did get a message telling me to go to Google and give Flickr access to my blog which I did not get when I tried adding the blog from the generic login, that could have been crucial. I have chosen a different image too, felt the other was fated.

My apologies to webmum for posting 3 images of Jane Austen to her blog in my ignorance.

Btw this image has a Jane Austen connection. It is the ceiling of the tea shop opposite Jane Austen's house.

Week 3 - It works

After some tweaking the links are now working - oh joy and bliss....

Week 3 - It has all turned to custard

Part 2 of week 3 has been incredibly frustrating. Library Thing was fine, I added a few favourite titles to my library, although I do query classifying the Jane Austen collection at 808 in Dewey. Anyway to continue, I added the link to my blog, however, everytime I click on the link I crash the broadband connection. I then went on to rollyo and after adding that link to the blog I had widgets (spanner and screwdriver) appearing all over the blog. Obviously this was not a good sign so I gave up for the day. Today the widgets have disappeared but the broadband connection is still crashing everytime I try to access my Bloglines or Library Thing from the blog links. I am soooo frustrated. I am just about to throw a mouse or keyboard through the screen so I have reverted to print and started reading 'Blogging for 'dummies' and 'Your life online : making the most of Web 2.0' which should enlighten and calm.

I will try again tomorrow on a work computer.

Week 3 - Fd's flickr toys

Fd's flickr toys is where I spent most of my time this week. I managed to hockneyise, jigsaw, frame, matte, motivate and blog header images.

When I started to add my creations to the blog it was all too much, so I changed the blog template to a more simple, minimalist layout and colours. I have changed the blog header to one I created in Fd's toys and the image above is created using Matte for the art gallery style frame and then fed into Motivator for the title and quote.

I think I will be returning to flickr toys quite often now.

101 cookbooks and Manolo's

Week 2

I had a great time adding newsfeeds and bloglines, then organising them. However, it was not a good idea to do this in the late evening as my head was still buzzing a 3am with ideas and what ifs. I can also now appreciate why the millennial generation see email as old hat.

I think I created a public blogline, the URL being: http://www.bloglines.com/blog/ajaneite
I elected to keep my blog private, the instructions referred only to the blogline. I still get a little confused about the blog title and user name and which I use when.

After a quick stock take I do meet the criteria for the 101 cookbooks blog. Although sadly, I do not possess a pair of Manolo's, some 'friends' do call me Imelda.

This is it

I have made it thus far into Web 2.0. I'm finding this blog business rather daunting, not so much the technical side but the whole idea that I am publishing on the www and anyone can read what I write. Quite unfamiliar territory for the reserved and quiet.

Technically speaking, I'm still trying to understand the various parts of a blog and how it all gels together. Why Jane Bennet? Two reasons, needless to say Jane Bennet is not my real name but it very nearly was and I am a huge Jane Austen fan.