Frustation sets in

For the last few days I have been trying to add a picture to my profile. After hours of trial I was able to get it posted. After many more hours of trying to move the posted picture to my profile, I have given up in frustration.

On to the next things. Yesterday, I read the article on Flickr mashups and downloaded pictures from my digital camera for the first time. I added a few to my Flickr account. Mashups seem way beyond my capabilities at this time, but I will revisit them in a few months or next year and my opinion will likely to have changed with my level of techonological knowledge. I went on to read about RSS feeds and have set up a bloglines account. I'm not really sure how I personally could use RSS feeds. I can see where they could be great additions to a library website, they could be a great outreach to teens and young adults, and they would be time saving for avid Internet users. I consider myself a novice to technology and although I use the internet each and everyday, I don't spend much time out of the day reading news or professional materials online. I am trying to remain optimistic by telling myself that once I'm acquainted with the technology, I'll like it and use it. #5 & #7 is completed.

Today I located a few useful library related blogs and have added them to my bloglines account. I began by looking at most of the blogs on the list and chose Shifted Librarian, oss4lib and Information Research weblog. These seemed professional and academic and would be useful in keeping updated on technological issues. I choose two blogs I have already become familiar with and use regularly, Fresh Squeezed and the Gen Tech. Fresh squeezed is a blog about adult fiction put out by the adult fiction evaluator for OCPL, Wendy Crutcher. Gen Tech is a blog from the Gen Tech Workshop hosted by the Santiago Library System. I was unable to add Information Research weblog and Fresh Squeezed since they did not have RSS feeds. I find it hard to believe that the Information Research weblog didn't have a feed, but then I may have done something wrong. I'll try again at another time. I was very surprised to see that bloglines had captured so many articles already. #8 is completed.

I looked at Twitter trying to figure out what it is and what it could be used for. I will need to register an account to find out the answer to these two questions.