Thing 9, part 3

I looked at Lazybase but it does not seem to be working. Might be a good tool to put together some booklists.

I also looked at 50 Web 2.0 Tools...probably more than I'll ever use, but nice to know they are out there. I did not realize all the picture help that was available. Another new thing from 23Things@Neflin. Thanks NEFLIN.

Thing 9, part 2

Big Huge Labs has many neat tools to work with photos. I created a mosaic. Again I can see uses for photo tools on web pages and blogs. Maybe the load time isn't a big deterrent. Our libraries have speedy connections and more and more home connections are by DSL.

Here's my mosaic.

Thing 9

Well that was fun. I looked at Picture Trail and created a puzzle type slide show. The site made it easy to customize and gave me the code to embed on my blog.

Options make for a jazzier presentation than Power Point and it is easy to embed the code on your web page or blog. Many possibilities here. Do all the fancy graphics slow down the load time of a web page? We are notoriously impatient.

Thing 5

I'm a bit familiar with photo sites. I've viewed NEFLIN's Flickr account before 23 Things.

I watched the Commoncraft video about online sharing took the online tour of Flickr.

Commoncraft pointed out that on line sharing is a way to back up your photos, something I had not considered. The Flickr tour was interesting and informative.

I searched for camellias (!) and found there were 23,842 photos of camellias, and I'd wager that they were all different. Lovely flowers. Here's one that I particularly liked. It's a photo of a Camellia Japonica (variety name not listed, Wikipedia says there are more than 2000 varieties of Japonica) taken by jam343 and posted in April 2006.

All of the photos on Flickr are taken by better picture takers than I am! Above one of my camellias.

I decided not to sign up for a Flickr account since I personally already use another photo sharing service: Snapfish.

I'm still not sure about a Flickr account for the library.