If I have the time I hope to see which of the 23 Things can be done from a smartphone, such as a Treo.
Awhile ago while waiting for a program to start I did try out Things 4 (Flickr) and 9 (Twitter)
Flickr on a mobile phone allows you view recently uploaded photos. You can also search photos by tags or keywords. While on the road I tried to sign in to my account to see what I could do and couldn't because my username has an underscore and I couldn't find the character on the keyboard. Back at the office I pulled out the manual and got signed in. Once signed in one can add comments and view photos from contacts. You can not see groups, sets, or collections. Uploading is done through email.
Twitter has a nice mobile interface. Simple, clean. You see the tweets, can update, can get to your followed.
Showing posts with label Flickr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flickr. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Thing 17 - add to Infopeople Wiki
OK, I decided just correcting a typo was cheating so I added information about Flickr on the Infopeople Our 23 Things Wiki.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Thing 10 - image generator
Some of the image generators could be used for creating certificates or buttons for library events. Some are just plain fun.
In honor of the caffinated librarians group in Flickr I generated this image:
In honor of the caffinated librarians group in Flickr I generated this image:
Saturday, May 19, 2007
365 Library Days Project
I've finally started dragging my camera around with my at work so that I can snap a few pictures each day to participate in the 365 Library Days Project on Flickr.
I uploaded a week's worth last night and added them to the group. I just have to remember to keep it going, or recruit others to help out.
I uploaded a week's worth last night and added them to the group. I just have to remember to keep it going, or recruit others to help out.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Thing 5, fun with Flickr
Flickr mashups
Retrievr Interesting idea, not sure how useful. It is hard to draw something and get expected results. I tried drawing a sailing ship, got pictures of trees and snowscapes. I tried drawing a simple picture of one of my photos in Flickr, nothing similar came up. I tried uploading an image but it didn’t work and didn’t give me a reason why.
Spell with Flickr Wasn’t too intuitive on how you could then paste the resulting letter words somewhere else, but I figured it out. The website is hard to read with its black background and blue lettering but finally saw “Here is the html of these images for use on other sites” with a box below with html coding. I selected all the text in the box and then pasted it into the blog (first selecting the edit html tab, then going back to the compose tab to easily write more in this post.
Tagnautica Mesmerizing. I’ll have to mull over possible value. Reminds me a bit of searching library catalog through relationships, a la Aquabrowser and the like. (see Queens Library for a demonstration) This enhances the ability to browse through a library’s collection.
Flappr An interface to searching Flickr. It requires Flash 8 or above. I thought I only had Flash 7 on my PC, but it worked fine for me. I used the same search in Flappr and Flickr. Flappr found 14, Flickr found 76.
I didn’t want to take the time for the games. Perhaps I’ll play with them at home with my S.O. He enjoys the unusual sites I come home with.
Retrievr Interesting idea, not sure how useful. It is hard to draw something and get expected results. I tried drawing a sailing ship, got pictures of trees and snowscapes. I tried drawing a simple picture of one of my photos in Flickr, nothing similar came up. I tried uploading an image but it didn’t work and didn’t give me a reason why.
Spell with Flickr Wasn’t too intuitive on how you could then paste the resulting letter words somewhere else, but I figured it out. The website is hard to read with its black background and blue lettering but finally saw “Here is the html of these images for use on other sites” with a box below with html coding. I selected all the text in the box and then pasted it into the blog (first selecting the edit html tab, then going back to the compose tab to easily write more in this post.
Tagnautica Mesmerizing. I’ll have to mull over possible value. Reminds me a bit of searching library catalog through relationships, a la Aquabrowser and the like. (see Queens Library for a demonstration) This enhances the ability to browse through a library’s collection.
Flappr An interface to searching Flickr. It requires Flash 8 or above. I thought I only had Flash 7 on my PC, but it worked fine for me. I used the same search in Flappr and Flickr. Flappr found 14, Flickr found 76.
I didn’t want to take the time for the games. Perhaps I’ll play with them at home with my S.O. He enjoys the unusual sites I come home with.
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Flickr
I am really enjoying playing with Flickr, so much so that I recently purchased a two-year subscription and now am thinking of all the fun sets I can create. Today is the Whole Earth Festival in Davis, California, so digital camera will travel.
For several years I had been looking for an easy, free web site for sharing photographs. Early attempts on other sites required everyone who wanted to view my pictures to also register with the site and log in each time. One site promised free hosting forever, and then was bought out by another company and in a flash all my photos were gone. Tried another site, again it was to be free forever, but they changed their business model and you had to purchase prints from them at least once a year. Zap, there went those photos. I still had the originals on my computer but the links I sent people and postings on forums no longer worked. So, I'm thrilled with Flickr. People do not have to register in order to view photos. I also like the ability to create sets, or albums and add tags and descriptions. Only thing that concerns me is the public sharing part of it. I'm careful to not upload photos of friends and family unless they approve to protect their privacy. For those photos I use a different service. With Snapfish (which I use to develop my 35mm film) my photos are shared only to people I've invited.
I learned about Flickr groups from the Infopeople eBranch online workshop. I decided to search for groups on cruising. I found a pretty good group about Princess cruises (not my favorite cruise line but the family likes it) so joined. I was poking around the members and saw that the creator was Libraryman. How serendipitous, stumbling upon a librarian as I'm exploring personal interests.
I've started taking pictures around my library and plan to upload them soon into the 365 Library Days project. We're only open Monday through Friday so it won't quite be a documentation of a full year (plus I do get vacations)
With a head start from the online workshop, I believe I've now completed things 1 through 4. Oh, BTW my Flickr photos can be found at: http://flickr.com/photos/75268079@N00/
For several years I had been looking for an easy, free web site for sharing photographs. Early attempts on other sites required everyone who wanted to view my pictures to also register with the site and log in each time. One site promised free hosting forever, and then was bought out by another company and in a flash all my photos were gone. Tried another site, again it was to be free forever, but they changed their business model and you had to purchase prints from them at least once a year. Zap, there went those photos. I still had the originals on my computer but the links I sent people and postings on forums no longer worked. So, I'm thrilled with Flickr. People do not have to register in order to view photos. I also like the ability to create sets, or albums and add tags and descriptions. Only thing that concerns me is the public sharing part of it. I'm careful to not upload photos of friends and family unless they approve to protect their privacy. For those photos I use a different service. With Snapfish (which I use to develop my 35mm film) my photos are shared only to people I've invited.
I learned about Flickr groups from the Infopeople eBranch online workshop. I decided to search for groups on cruising. I found a pretty good group about Princess cruises (not my favorite cruise line but the family likes it) so joined. I was poking around the members and saw that the creator was Libraryman. How serendipitous, stumbling upon a librarian as I'm exploring personal interests.
I've started taking pictures around my library and plan to upload them soon into the 365 Library Days project. We're only open Monday through Friday so it won't quite be a documentation of a full year (plus I do get vacations)
With a head start from the online workshop, I believe I've now completed things 1 through 4. Oh, BTW my Flickr photos can be found at: http://flickr.com/photos/75268079@N00/
Thursday, April 19, 2007
My Flickr photos
My flickr name is siegel_jackie (I'm not a very creative type)
my photos page is at: http://flickr.com/photos/75268079@N00/
I get a kick out of the number of views my photos get. Of my series of cruise food pictures the desserts get the most hits.
The most popular of my photos is shown here. It's of the yacht Rising Sun owned by Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle. It's only be up 10 days and already has over 200 hits. My other vaction photos uploaded the same day have about 20 hits.
I have about 180 photos on Flickr. I think I'm going to have to spring for a Pro account as I've got another cruise coming up in the summer. This one will be with my family so taking food pictures helps keep me sane.
my photos page is at: http://flickr.com/photos/75268079@N00/
I get a kick out of the number of views my photos get. Of my series of cruise food pictures the desserts get the most hits.
The most popular of my photos is shown here. It's of the yacht Rising Sun owned by Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle. It's only be up 10 days and already has over 200 hits. My other vaction photos uploaded the same day have about 20 hits.
I have about 180 photos on Flickr. I think I'm going to have to spring for a Pro account as I've got another cruise coming up in the summer. This one will be with my family so taking food pictures helps keep me sane.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Week 3, Exercise 1 Multimedia, part 1 Flickr
Images and Flickr
Picture Australia is awesome. What a great collaboration of public and private institutions.
Kansas City Public Library: I did not like the rotating banner of events. It was too distracting, maybe the images are set to scroll too fast? I did like the thumbnails on the homepage in the middle-left of the page, kind of a "features" area. I did not like the thumbnails on the New Items guide. The choice of images sometimes didn't seem to really portray the topic. Why a landscape for Large Print?
Colorado College Tutt Library on Flickr: They are participating in the 365 library days project. That is such a neat idea. I've passed information on to our public information officer about the project, perhaps we'll join in. They seem to have been uploading on Flickr since 2005 but only have about 200 photos. They are keeping it up, with photos posted just two days ago.
Hennepin County Library on Flickr: I like that they have pictures of each of their branches and the description of each photo includes the address, phone number and availability of free wireless Internet. The photos then include a note which includes a link to the branch library's homepage. Their Bookspace project is fun, people are invited to submit a photo of themselves reading in their favorite place.
Westmont Public Library New Fiction on Flickr: How clever to photograph the new book shelves and then add notes to the books and link them to the catalog. A great way to announce new books.
Takeaways from the assignment: 1. Posting holiday party and other library staff events so that staff that have left the library will be able to see their old co-workers. Currently our holiday photos are on a shared network drive, available only in-house. 2. Coming up with a topic and invite the community to submit photos. 3. Photograph new books and link them to the catalog
Thoughts about implementing Flickr at our library. A librarian created a Flickr account and gave it to our Public Information Officer (PIO). She posted a few pictures. In the meantime Flickr changed a bit and you then had to sign in with your Yahoo account, not your old Flickr account. Turns out the librarian had used the Flickr account at an earlier place of work and couldn't recall the account or password, so that account is in essence closed (it was a free account) The PIO wanted to upload some more pictures, so we created a new Yahoo/Flickr account and can access that one. That too is a free account. We were trying to figure out how we could pay for a pro account, what with being a government entity with ridiculous purchasing hoops to go through, so we are sticking with the free account. I noticed the other day that if there is no activity (new pictures) in 90 days your account will be deleted. So, how do we preserve our presence on Flickr. Even with a pro account, what's to guarantee that Flickr will be around next year or in 5 years?
Picture Australia is awesome. What a great collaboration of public and private institutions.
Kansas City Public Library: I did not like the rotating banner of events. It was too distracting, maybe the images are set to scroll too fast? I did like the thumbnails on the homepage in the middle-left of the page, kind of a "features" area. I did not like the thumbnails on the New Items guide. The choice of images sometimes didn't seem to really portray the topic. Why a landscape for Large Print?
Colorado College Tutt Library on Flickr: They are participating in the 365 library days project. That is such a neat idea. I've passed information on to our public information officer about the project, perhaps we'll join in. They seem to have been uploading on Flickr since 2005 but only have about 200 photos. They are keeping it up, with photos posted just two days ago.
Hennepin County Library on Flickr: I like that they have pictures of each of their branches and the description of each photo includes the address, phone number and availability of free wireless Internet. The photos then include a note which includes a link to the branch library's homepage. Their Bookspace project is fun, people are invited to submit a photo of themselves reading in their favorite place.
Westmont Public Library New Fiction on Flickr: How clever to photograph the new book shelves and then add notes to the books and link them to the catalog. A great way to announce new books.
Takeaways from the assignment: 1. Posting holiday party and other library staff events so that staff that have left the library will be able to see their old co-workers. Currently our holiday photos are on a shared network drive, available only in-house. 2. Coming up with a topic and invite the community to submit photos. 3. Photograph new books and link them to the catalog
Thoughts about implementing Flickr at our library. A librarian created a Flickr account and gave it to our Public Information Officer (PIO). She posted a few pictures. In the meantime Flickr changed a bit and you then had to sign in with your Yahoo account, not your old Flickr account. Turns out the librarian had used the Flickr account at an earlier place of work and couldn't recall the account or password, so that account is in essence closed (it was a free account) The PIO wanted to upload some more pictures, so we created a new Yahoo/Flickr account and can access that one. That too is a free account. We were trying to figure out how we could pay for a pro account, what with being a government entity with ridiculous purchasing hoops to go through, so we are sticking with the free account. I noticed the other day that if there is no activity (new pictures) in 90 days your account will be deleted. So, how do we preserve our presence on Flickr. Even with a pro account, what's to guarantee that Flickr will be around next year or in 5 years?
Blogging directly from Flickr
For Week 3 of the Infopeople online class we are to explore Flickr (along with other image, audio and video services) I already had a Flickr account but hadn't really explored all the features.
On a recent vacation we went to the island of St. Martin and were able to find the sculpture designed by my cousin Martin Lynn. He passed away last year and the city added a nice memorial plaque to the base of the sculpture.
On a recent vacation we went to the island of St. Martin and were able to find the sculpture designed by my cousin Martin Lynn. He passed away last year and the city added a nice memorial plaque to the base of the sculpture.
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