Exercise #9 Technorati -Joy

I claimed my blog on Technorati and found that I could get straight into my blog from the Technorati site. I enjoyed watching the videocast and felt confident that I would be able to complete the exercise of searching Blog posts, tags and the Blog Directory. However when I went to the Front page of Technorati, I found that the dropdown menu shown in the video didn't seem to be available. Perhaps I needed to join Technorati for this to happen? But no, even after I had joined and claimed my blog there didnt seem to be any dropdown menu where it had been shown on the videoclip. I need help!! I enjoyed looking around the Technorati sight and am going to create a watchlist -now that I have claimed my blog I will be able to do this.

Exercise #7.2 Technorati, Syndec 8.com, Topix

I had a look at all three of these RSS sites. Syndec8 looks very complicated to register -I think their front page would discourage all but the most confident of computer users from joining. Technorati had predominantly material relating to the American political scene, which was current and interesting given the upcoming elections. Topix had New Zealand content which appealed to me -I was most likely to register with Topix. I wanted to change my selected topics on RSS but despite detailed searching of the site, I could find no option to delete or reselect the topics I would like searched for. Could someone help me with instructions on how to change my selected topics?

delicious social bookmarking

I have investigated the libraries which use delicious. The list of bookmarks used by some libraries included a wide variety of subjects. Students posted vacation photographs or video clips of tutorials to the library list. One list impressed me -they were obviously using delicious to record websites useful for Reference inquiries. The tags made it clearer as to what each posting contained. As a result, in the same way we use our catalogued subject headings, it was easy to click on to more information about the required subject. On this particular American library bookmarks list, it was interesting to see similar subject inquiries to those we have at North Shore Libraries -eg the Beijing Olympics

Exercise #7 RSS

I made my account and selected some Feed subjects. I was truly amazed -within seconds I had 17 feeds to click into!! Many of them were very general - some of interest and some not. I will go back and be more specific when selecting Feeds. I can see once I have restated my Feed subjects, this would be very useful.

Exercise #6 Technology

Now that I am over the first hurdle of creating a blog (never having done this before) I am looking forward to doing all the 23 things and becoming more confident with the computer functions. I would like to put the photos of my travels in Italy and Spain onto Flickr and go back and make a better card (the photo of Amalfi is somewhat blurred) I would like to communicate with my granddaughter on one of the social networking sites.
http://www.insouthitaly.co.uk/campania/img/amalfi01.jpg

Photograph from Google Images

A trading card for exercise #5 (mashups

here is the address of the Trading card I have made
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/deck.php

Flickr experience

I enjoyed the YouTube clip about Flickr. I then looked at other photos and thought being able to search through using tags was very useful. I am hoping to put some photos of the Amalfi coast onto a Flickr account that I will arrange in the future. A link to an image of the Amalfi coast is
http://www.flickr.com/photos/73717134@N00/2779008821/

another link is http://www.flickr.com/photos/jano-aoiakuma/2779941356/