MySpace

One thing learned -- I must always remember to copy text when I post before hitting publish or save because due to whatever computer malfunction occured, I have lost a post in transmission.

I don't think MySpace is the most intuitive thing to use, but once set up it is a great way to keep in touch and meet up. I created my page, but don't have the time today to work through all the settings that need to make it work correctly. I'll get back to it. I can see where a person could spend an incredible amount of time messing around with it, but it is fun.

Irish Trad. Music Archive Dublin

Irish Trad. Music Archive Dublin
Originally uploaded by eggyolk

This is a photo of the front door of the Irish Traditional Music Archive in Dublin, Ireland where I worked for a time cataloging music. Having a little problem with uploading photo. I granted access so blogger could access my Flickr photos, so I'll have to do a little more work on this to figure out what step I missed. I figured it out -- too easy!

Bibliotech de St Tropez

Bibliotech de St Tropez
Originally uploaded by eggyolk

Trying a different route for posting Flickr photos to my blog. This time I think it will work. I took this photo a couple years ago outside of a library in the south of France.

Lesson 6 Streaming music

I signed up for the Alexander Street streaming music on our Web site. This is so easy to use and has such great music. I really like the folk module as it has obscure tunes that are hard to find. I love being able to create my own custom list by song. Usually on full CDs there are a few tracks I don't like so customizing is the way to go.

I probably wouldn't ever use this at work as I would be distracted, but it is great at home.

RSS feeds

I have been using google's RSS feed for maybe a year? However, I don't really check it too often. Mostly I use it to test Sno-Isle RSS feeds to make sure they are working OK so I only check it when I'm in a testing phase or once in awhile.

I also have a personal Igoogle page set up that I use on a daily basis at home and this has been the best place for me to view my favorite RSS feeds.

What I really like is to add the RSS feeds to my blog. This is where I would go more often and see the posts of my favorites. I've added Shifted Librarian, Del.icio.us, Digg and Life of Leo, Leo Laporte's blog, the guy that does This week in Tech podcast among many others.

My problem is there are too many feeds I'd like to have and not enough time or space to view them all. It is a great service and one of the best features of Web 2.0. We are working on improving our RSS page for the Sno-Isle Web site as we speak.

Lesson 4 continued IM

OK, after numerous attempts to catch up, I finally turned off my email and found a buddy to chat with. I have never used GoogleTalk and I think it is great. It took a moment or two to get used to since I do email non-stop I expected it to be something more like that. I really like the informality of the chat and can see where it could really be useful.

For most of my work though, I like email since I can save my emails to followup on and refer to. That is the only drawback of IM. Or maybe it is actually the great thing about it. I think there is a time and place for both.