Week 3, Thing#7 Technology Worth Using

I am excited about photo-sharing sites like Flickr.  I love being able to share images without clogging up everybody’s email inboxes etc. I once emailed a photo to my family (before they had broadband) and it took an entire day to download! Storing digital images is also an issue – my laptop is currently overstuffed with photos that I haven’t sorted yet… Websites that enable you to upload, store, organise and share images are great news.

Week 3, Thing #6

Trading Card, originally uploaded by ksqvideo.

Librarians are in the business of finding information and answering questions is a major part of my working life. Asking questions is a great way to learn. Luckily most Library patrons don’t ask the really BIG questions though, or I’d never be able to answer anybody!

This was quite frustrating to do, because my photo wouldn’t upload. It turned out jpg files are fine, but bmp files don’t work. There could be possibilities for a more practical, work related card….

Week 3, Thing#5 Discovery Exercise A, (Image 1)

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }
.flickr-yourcomment { }
.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }
.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }

Dusk last night, 3rd feb 07, originally uploaded by fastbird61.

This is so beautiful and peaceful. Wish I was there…..

This photographer (“fastbird61″) has so many wonderful images on flickr and very generously allows others to view them by making them public.

I’m thoroughly enjoying looking through images on flickr. I like browsing in the Explore section under ”last 7 days” and “interestingness” links – a visual feast!

I just wish I could get rid of all the messy code from flickr (top of page). I thought I could do this, but when I deleted it the image disappeared! So, I had to use the blog this tool on flickr to post the image again. Strange, because when I uploaded and posted my own photograph from flickr yesterday I deleted the messy code and the image remained. Why????

Week 3, Thing#5, Discovery Exercise A (Image 2)

Sundown, originally uploaded by fastbird61.

Another beautiful image from fastbird61. This time, I was able to delete the code from above the image, and it didn’t disappear! I don’t know what went wrong yesterday….

Week 3, Thing #5, Discovery Exercise B

Stage 1 Horticulture – Student Displays at Kurri Kurri Campus Library, originally uploaded by ksqvideo.

This is my attempt at Discovery Exercise b. I’ve never used Flickr’s “blog this” tool before, although I have uploaded photos to Flickr (a long, long time ago…).  Amazingly it worked and it was not even that hard!! I did have to edit the post to delete all the messy code from flickr though.

Instructions (so I don’t forget)

1.  Set up a flickr account
2. Upload photos using flickr’s upload tool. I had some existing photos on the PC, so I just had to browse for files and add the selected photos)
3. Configure a blog in flickr to post photos to. The only difficult bit was entering the correct password. (At first, I didn’t realise that flickr was asking for my blog username &  password, not my flickr username & password).
4. Select the photo to post from flickr to the blog (double click on photo).
5. Click on “blog this”, above photo.
6. Fill in template for blog post.
7. Send post containing image from flickr to blog.
8. Edit post within blog.

I think this was everything – hopefully I haven’t left any steps out.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.