My tenth 23 Thingy Experience

I wasn't totally sure what I was suppose to do in this experience i.e. exploring Web 2.0 awards list. I had a look down the awards list, one entry that is listed under the category "questions & advice" is Yahoo answers, I seem to often find the answer to what I am looking for in this particular site, there are probably loads of sites out there that do the same thing, however in this site people rate the answer as useful or not useful, which is very helpful when you are looking for advice.

I am not too sure if I was suppose to look at a site in the awards list, or review sites about the awards list! So hopefully the above is of some relevance

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My ninth 23 Thingy Experience

I had a quick look at Google books, I found the interface a bit boring and couldn't really find any books of interest, though I didn't look very hard. I can see the relevance of uploading books into Google book search as I suppose that it where must people start their searching these days, but it does seem like Google is taking over the world!

My eighth 23 Thingy Experience - Now that I have learned to count properly

I really liked Library Thing, I had never heard of it before. I think what I like most is that it recommends books to you based on what you have read. I always like to read a good book, but often find it very difficult to pick a book when I go to a book shop, and end up buying the one with the nicest cover! For that reason this is one of the 23 things I will definitely use again. http://www.librarything.com/catalog/annabel_mc

My Third 23 Thingy Experience

This is actually technically my 5, 6 and 7 thingy experience, I have just been counting it wrong. This experience was all to do flickr and photo stuff. Creating an account in flickr is easy, but the rest was not as easy for me, I think it is more time consuming that anything. I had a look at mappr, flickr color pickr and montagr, but when I couldn't figure out what to do straight away, I exited these resources fairly quickly. That is one problem I find with web 2.0 technology, if it doesn't happen instantly I tend to lose patience. I did use the map tool in flickr which was easy I was able to add the "Tombs of Kings" picture to the location paphos, cyprus on the map. I also had a look at the trading card maker, jigsaw maker and image generator and found all those easy to use (results are below!).

It does show you the amazing things you can do with photos. I have no doubt that I will use some of these resources again, when I have loads of time to play around with them!

My mosaic jigsaw & star studded floor!

My mosaic jigsaw, originally uploaded by annabel_mc.

This is a picture of a mosaic floor (jigsaw style!) using the jigsaw maker in big huge labs.com, the first image is the same image but decorated with stars using the image generator

Me in my garden...I wish!

My creation, originally uploaded by annabel_mc.

Just trying the trading card thingy!

Tomb of the Kings

Tomb of the Kings, originally uploaded by annabel_mc.

This is me trying to get use to Flickr. I have never used it before, but I can imagine that it might become slightly addictive. Getting set up in Flickr is easy enough, however Jane's talk helped alot yesterday, about finding out all the detail. This is a photo of my trip to cyprus, getting to Cyprus was slightly more traumatic than setting up a flickr account, so that was a relief!

Flickr

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

My Second 23 Thingy Experience

I started my RSS Feed adventure by registering with bloglines, but then quickly decided to just stick with a google feed reader, as I already had an account. If I had read Karen's post properly I would have known that! Setting up a feed reader is easy and a feed reader is very handy, as you can keep yourself up to date with things that interest you, without having to go visit the relevant website every time or clogging up your email. So I am now subscribed to Irish Times Breaking news, as I am obsesssed with checking the web version of the Irish Times, I am also stalking one or two colleagues on their 23 experience, and keeping myself updated on the UL Library Blog (even though I update it alot of the time, but you never know when a sneaky post can get in there)!

My First 23 Thingy Experience

I have updated a blog before, but contrary to popular belief I have never created a blog before, the famous library blog was created by another fabulous UL library staff member! So this is really my very first original blog.