Technorati at last

Technorati is one of those things I have heard about for years but never gotten around to getting to. I can see how useful it would be for finding other people's musings on things of interest. Not sure how much elseI would use it though.
And I was very glad to see that "learning 2.0" brought up better results than learning 2.0 without the quotes.

I'm not at all sure I want to tag my posts. I'm not saying anything of import and I was really surprised to find a stranger not involved with this course commenting on one of my posts.
It wasn't bad, just a surprise.
So I'll just leave it for now and not do anything special except for the plcmcl2 tag.
PLCMCL2

Del.icio.us

Just started looking at Delicious and welcome the chance to see more. I've signed up as Frances but I can't download anything to my tool box at work. I'll try at home. I did do a search though and it seems very useful.
More to come as I use it more!

This is new for me

A lot of what we've been doing here has been fun but actually installing a widget on my blog was one step more than I thought I could probably do successfully. And yet, there it is. A link to Library Thing. Now I just have to get something more up there than some of my favourite Dorothy Dunnett books!

Image generators

This week's session (I am weeks behind) came at just the right time because I was going to try the Motivator - which makes motivational signs. I think mine came out quite well.

This can be found at:

http://flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/motivator.php

I also found one that does barcodes, so this is my homage to The Prisoner

Unfortunately it obscures some of the message. It starts " I am..."

Feedster and Topix

I'm not sure why I need more excuses to spend more time on the internet! Both Feedster and topix (the only 2 I have checked out so far) have links to lots of time-gulping pages. Fascinating! However, I did find a bit of information which I then linked to on a different site and everyone there praised me for being so on top of things!

RSS feeds

I've been using RSS feeds for awhile now. I particularly like how they are done in Opera, where they download them separately and remind me I have them. Firefox's way - rather like Bookmarks, is not as intuitive - or maybe I haven't spent as much time there.
And I forget to go to Bloglines and now, reminded, I have about 200 entries in each feed!

I used to think that you should be publishing new content regularly in order to warrant offering RSS but now I think it is almost more useful for those who don't. If they only update once a month, you don't think to go back and check when the time comes.
The feed does that for me.

And may I just add a whoohoo that I have managed to get to Week 5 in just over a week?

Blogging about technology

Recently I downloaded Audacity at home. That is the software that podcasters often use and it looked as though it might be handy for work.
We have stories online but since they are taken from stories on the phone, they all have a "Please hang up the phone" at the end of the story. With Audacity, I think I can get rid of that phrase, then convert the story from WAV to mp3. What I should also be able to do, but I haven't figured out how yet, is how to make it a smaller mp3 file. It needn't be as good quality as a music file is. I need more time to be able to play around with it.
Isn't that the stories of our lives!