#9 Finding feeds

To start with I have never heard of any of these search tools. I found Feedstar,Topix.net and Google Blog search very easy to use. I typed in Essendon Footbal Club in Feedstar and came up with the club news site immediately which was better than searching through a list of associated sites. Topix.net was great for news as you can easily select the location that interested you. Feedstar was such a simple tool I found more info on Croatia. Google blog search was much the same. I can't believe that I have never seen it before. Technorati was a bit more complex or maybe I was a bit over it by then. So many news feeds, so little time.
My Bloglines account.
http://www.bloglines.com/public/julieb51

#8 Make life really simple with RSS and newsreader

I found this exercise really interesting. There were many areas I would be keen to keep up to date with for my own use. We are planning an overseas holiday soon and I subscribed to a couple of travel blogs for up to date information. Although I suppose that you have to be careful of the veracity of the information. I think it is very convenient to have all the links together in this way. I thought the links to the SLV were very useful as it presents up to date news all the time. It could become addictive which would probably defeat the purpose, you would still have too many things to look through

Exercise 7

Technology Blog
I remember in the early 90s being shown the Internet during a class at Box Hill TAFE. This was the very non user friendly Internet which gave you very little help in navigating. As we were struggling to get through to a library catalogue in th US I remember thinking and later saying that I could not see how this could be realistically used in every day life.
Well I guess I need to eat those words. I don't know how I would manage today.
If it looks like rain I have to look up the Bureau of Met site to make sure about the rain coming.
Instant sports scores from around the world.
Olympic Games school projects used to be the bane of librarians, now they are a breeze with so much information on the web.
How did we organise holidays without the Internet.
But just occasionally I do think, do we have to know everything instantly.

Flickr 6

My creation
Originally uploaded by julie.blewitt

I used the trading card program to produce this card of beautiful Columbus

Flickr 5

I have known about photo sharing before but have never used it. We have usually emailed photos which is very time consuming. I will join up James in London so I can see his photos of the Oktoberfest. Although maybe I don't want to see them after all.

Sheedy and Hirdy farewell banner

No 5 Flickr

James Hird. Champion.

Sheedy and Hirdy farewell banner
Originally uploaded by Gavin Anderson

I went to this game which was the last game James Hird played in Melbourne. We went to a luncheon hosted by the Essendonians and Kevin Sheedy came and gave a short talk to the luncheon. Apart from the result we had a great time
This photo was uploaded by Gavin Anderson. He must be a bomber fan as well.

I am glad to see my Blog has been registered. There was a bit of a delay. Now I just have to pretty it up a bit. I want to get plenty of practice.Maybe a nice picture of James Hird would brighten it up. Oh well there is always next year.

My first post

I have just created by Blog and I am now figuring out what to do next.