Thing #5

Here's a cool purple picture I found using flickr color pickr - the photo is by Giant Gingko and can be found at:
www.flickr.com/photos/giantginkgo/38108996/sizes/l/
Being a big fan of purple, I like this way of finding pictures.
and here's my title, courtesy of spell with flickr:...okay, nevermind. I can't figure out how to get that on here at the moment, and I'm running out of time. Anyway, I like flickr, although would probably like it even more if I EVER took pictures. Which I don't. But I can see the advantages of it, especially the ease with which things can be organized.

Thing #4

http://www.flickr.com/photos/torresteras/2413792458/
This was another slightly frustrating thing. 1st, I wasted a lot of time browsing through pictures, then, when I went to put one up here, I realized that none of the ones I'd been looking at were offered for use. I finally figured out to go to the creative commons, and got a picture from there, but then the directions for getting the url did not work. Even with our computer wise-woman helping me, I never did manage it following the directions given - she showed me a different way to do it though, so I'm going with that and calling it good. Thing 4 done.
oh - and the picture is by torrestoerasfotos on flickr. As I was doing this exercise, I felt a bit like there was some fruit on a tree branch, just out of my reach. grrr.

Thing #3 - a dangerous, distracting Thing

I have spent a fair amount of time on this one, and will probably spend even more time once I get home. RSS feeds are dangerous - sometimes it's better NOT to know what all is going on around you; I am now mere clicks away from overwhelming amounts of information about the slightest thing that catches my fancy. And my fancy is caught quite easily. Ah well. With that said, in general it was fun. I had some trouble at first, but once that smoothed out I managed to waste all my time browsing around. I haven't actually read that many of my subscriptions - I'll save that for when I'm at home.
So, I can see how it would be easy to keep up-to-date on what different libraries are doing, as well as on your own personal obsessions (I found more than one joss whedon related feed, and I haven't even tried looking for favorite author things). I'm not completely sure how media specialists and what-not might use it, not being entirely sure what all their jobs entail; however, I'm sure it makes finding up-to-date info on any topic easier.
I haven't experimented yet with different tools for finding feeds - so far just what was available on my page. Perhaps I will have brilliant discoveries to share later.
Over and out.