Ayup

Yes, Virginia, I can embed my bloglines account--and since bloglines grabs feeds from sites that do not, as it turns out, have feeds--?

Pretty cool.

I'm still not getting my news from some MSM-online-clone, though.

Yes, But Can I Embed It?

New this week: RSS feeds.

It sounds nifty, agglomorating all your "information" in one place, but I'm particular about my news. I get it in magazine format (The New Republic, The National Review, ET and Science News) and I'm covered.

Sure it's slow. Sure it's old-school (Dead Trees, not those groovy electrons. Dude--!)

With all the misinformation abounding in the MSM, one is really better off waiting a week for the Fog of War Bias to dissipate and then collect what data apppears from reasonably (intellectually-speaking) reputable, but conflicting (assumption-wise) perspectives. That, and the MSM reporters are just bone-ignorant about the sciences. After all it's not what you know, but what you think you know that just isn't so that usually gets you in the end.

Still. R.S.S. is the New Thing.

Let's see if this new blogger-thinggumy can embed the Bloglines feed-service. Then I really can have it all in one place--and this blog might be worth keeping as something more than a place-holder.

More "Fun" with Flickr (Redux)

This was (briefly) "Mashups are Love" using Spell with Flickr. And they are, aren't they?) but not so much until I get better at Blogger's html-editing software. Massaging the alignment. Trying to get paragraphs to para:

So yes, making the mashup was cute, but exporting it here: meh. Ditto with the library trading card:

Of course simple, dancing-baloney-free info is the bestest fun of all. But I'm an Olde Tyme Farte that way.

And yes. If the alignment is all to blazes, too bad. There's a reason this is a (mostly) throwaway blog.

More Fun with Flickr

"Div" and "p" curse you. DIV--! P--!, I said--!

And also? Preview? Lies like a RUG.

Ahem.

Let's try that again. From scratch.

Group Hug-!(Now more text-y and link-y-!)

I wasn't expecting to have to do much de novo for the KCLS Learning 2.0 coursework (*) since I've been noodling about on the 'nets for a while now, and this week's excercise was no exception. But I did discover something nifty. (For "geek" and "nerd" values of "nift") We're covering "Flickr," the site which, as you know Bob, is more than just a free convenient place to

1. Upload photos of the baby for all her adoring relations to view, or


2. Dump images for your blog because you're too cheap to get the paid account with file-space.

No! There's more: Flickr is also all about the community and the sharing (Mmmmm. Sharing) and--here's what I hadn't been paying attention to--do you know what powers this (virtual) visual group hug--? Wait for it...

Cataloging!

Yes, my dear Bob, it's the tags, those descriptive terms slapped on the books media images that enable Flickr users to group like items together and find what they're looking for. There's even the sweet little beginnings of an authority file. Which is not to say I'm going to go all taggy on my own Flickr site: I'm not really looking for more (virtual) community in my life--Flickr's still just a tool I'm using along the way to the other things I want to do.

But homework calls: Here's the (properly tagged) photograph to share with my fellow KCLS-ers. I was going to give you a milkmaid, but doing the tag search on that one--? Not what you'd call "family friendly." Instead, I chose Saint Minutia, the Patron Saint of Catalogers (follow the link to "Great Moments in the History of Technical Services.") Now when you search Flickr's tags for "catalogers" you get her, too. Go St. Min--!

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(*) "Library 2.0" is library-speak for all the groovy intramanet stuff your teenager discovered 4 years ago: blogging, podcasts, MySpace, YouTube... Since I'm a Michael Gorman fangirl ("there is no communication without automation) it's all good.