I explored. "Feedster" seemed the simplest to navigate, but none of them turned up the results I was looking for. Also, when searching for a name, quotations don't seem to help; I got everything "John" and everything "Smith" instead of only "John Smith"s. Again, if you spend a lot of time simply surfing, its a fun tool. I prefer to have more purpose when doing a search.
7.31.2007
Thing 8 - RSS feeds, Bloglines
Bloglines is an excellent resource for anyone that spends time surfing site to site for info, or for someone who seeks out news. That is not me. The exercise was not difficult to explore, it was interesting, but the hardest part was finding so many sites to subscribe to. Quite frankly, this was nothing more than an additional junk box for me to manage. Sure, a couple are handy. I love that I can now keep an eye on my fav YPL blogs without having to search each one for changes. But, other than that, at this point, it just isn't useful for me.
7.19.2007
Thing 7 - blogger's choice - "I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad."
All this "Flickr" stuff is nice, but what ever happened to privacy? I think we're opening ourselves up too much to the world, not to mention the potential for some very dangerous situations. This can be utilized safely, of course, but some of these things I'm viewing would not take long to locate the person behind them. I suspect that even with the option Flickr offers to privatize your pics, the photos could still be found through any decent search engine. (Meanwhile, I'm removing my block to this blog, perhaps temporarily again, to measure the flow of traffic)
7.16.2007
Thing 5 - Flickr
Ahh.. Split Rock, MN. This one is on my list of vacation destinations. But, of course I would be going in mid-summer. I have a hard enough time keeping warm; I have no intentions of going to a northern shore on a snowy winter day.
7.12.2007
Thing 4 - Register with Blog Central
Registered, a
but I got the impression the "blogteam" wasn't trilled about my choice to privatize my blog. Oh well. I'm still here.
Thing 3 - Respose to 7 and 1/2 lifelong learning habits, Set up & first post (see: "Eggs")
Strength: Habit 3: I view problems as challenges. I thrive on out of the ordinary, break from routine, independent thinking. Day-to-day routine bores me.
Thing 2 - Lifelong Learning podcast
Finally found the time to watch the video. It would have been helpful to mention that everything was captioned, so sound was not a requirement.
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