Fractured Flikr

I actually found this lesson a little confusing. When I was helping in the training room a lot of questions came up. Joy has tweaked the directions slightly so I hope this will help future Tech Tuneup students get through this lesson with a little more ease. It's important to remove your blog from Flickr so the next person can post to their blog. As Ed Norton would say, "Ahhh, the small details..."

TPPL-Fall 2008-Rudbeckia

TPPL-Fall 2008-Rudbeckia
Originally uploaded by TP Tuneup

This is some beautiful rudbeckia from the library's walking trail.

Pandora and YouTube

This is the portion of the Technology Tune up that I was responsible for. I am a big Youtube fan and I only wish it was around in the early to mid-1990s when my kids were small and kept me up at night. It would have given me something to look at besides TV Land in the middle of the night. You can find just about anything on Youtube. I've found the theme song for a show I used to watch in the 70s (Kids from C.A.P.E.R) and unreleased concert footage (Beatles at Shea Stadium).

Pandora is great, although since I wrote this section they have begun to play advertisements. But it can introduce you to artists you might not have heard before. I have discovered a lot of performers that way, mostly obscure ones I probably wouldn't have heard of any other way. If you're sitting at the computer and want to listen to something besides your iPod where you know everything that's on it, or a radio station that plays the same forty songs over and over, then Pandora is a nice alternative.

RSSes

I added a few RSS feeds to the ones I already subscribe to. I'm a big fan of RSS feeds because they let you know when something new has been added to your favorite blog without you having to check it eighty times a day. It saves you from wasting a lot of time on that (when you can be wasting it on other things!). I've got some news blogs and entertainment blogs along with those related to library-biz.

A Girl's First Book of Blogposting

So I've created a blog, which proves that anyone can create a blog.

I liked the tutorials, how they walk you through the whole process. That makes it pretty hard to screw it up. Now I understand why so many crazy people have blogs...

I enjoyed looking at the other staff blogs. This will be a great way to get feedback on the Tech Tune-up project.