Web 2.0 blog

I found an interesting blog today called Go2Web2.0 blog. Here is a post from that blog - 39 web based tools that don't require registration


One of the tools listed is kwout. Kwout lets you quote a part of a web page as an image and then you can save the picture to Flickr, post it in your blog,....

Flickr mashups

There are a lot of intersting Flickr tool thingys but it sure can take a lot of time to wade through them all. Here are some of the ones I looked at.

Mosaic Maker would be good to use to make a collage of photos for any project - perhaps pictures from a workshop or special event.

The Palette Generator is really neat. It will create a color palette using whatever photo you choose. It would be great for any project where you want to coordinate colors or decorate a space using a photo as a starting point.

There are multiple photo finders search by color. With the Multicolr Search Lab you can search for pictures with certain colors; you can pick up to ten colors to search. The Color Fields Colr Picker searches for pictures using only one color. The Flickr Color Selectr also finds pictures by color.

And HEY we could all make our own cool badges with the Badge Maker.

Warholizer

Jigsaw

Bead Art
looks kinda like a chart for cross-stitch or latch hooking

Great Idea: National Park Trading Cards

Flickr

Flickr doesn't seem too hard to use. I don't have an easy way to put my pictures in Flickr since I don't have internet at home and no, I don't have a camera phone, but it is easy to blog about a picture you find on Flickr.

I've been able to find photos of places I know that I can blog about. I just wish there was someway to blog about a place with say two photos. So far I haven't found a way to do that by going to the Blog This Photo feature in Flickr.

Downtown KCMO

Power and Light Building, 22 May 2008
Originally uploaded by Rock Chalk Jayhawk Cartographer

I found this picture taken downtown Kansas City, MO. When I was a kid I loved to watch the color changes of the top of this building. And, as a bonus, the glass building on the left with the lights around the top is the tallest building in KC and all Missouri - and my dad worked there for years when he worked for Sprint.

Kansas City Power and Light Building
Originally uploaded by gwENvision

One of my favorite buildings downtown - composite of the changing colors.

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Kansas City has various nicknames. Some of them are:
The City of Fountains
The BBQ Capital of the World
Heart of America
Paris of the Plains
Monument City
The Home of Jazz
CowTown
K.C. or KCMO (Missouri side) or KCK (Kansas side)

Evening on the Plaza, 28 June 2004
Originally uploaded by Rock Chalk Jayhawk Cartographer

Make blog browsing easy with Page 2 Rss

While looking for blogs I came across this one: Popgadget/Personal Tech for Women. It mentioned a free service for sites that don't have RSS feeds. Page 2 Rss checks the site or blog for updates and sends them to your feed reader/aggregator. Neat!

RSS

A person sure could get carried away pretty easily with this. I set-up a folder for the library 2.0 challenge blogs, another for library stuff, one for wait-and-see. . . I can see how going to one place to see everything that's new could save time. Unless you went wild and subscribed to so many feeds you couldn't keep up.
I do like how you can save a post to look at later in both Bloglines and Google Reader. The only thing about them is you don't get to see the whole blog look; of course it is easy to click on the link to get to the actual blog.

Blogging

Creating a blog can be fun. It wasn't really hard to do except for all the decisions that needed to be made. I had a terrible time trying to decide what to name my blog and what url to use. I made a list of ideas, words, combinations of words - I was brainstorming. But lo and behold I didn't have to decide. I was going through my list and checking which urls were already taken, there were a lot, when all of a sudden my pinkie finger reached over and accidentally hit the enter key. And that was the url that I got. I have decided to stick with my accidental decision; otherwise I'll have to decide all over again.

I've read other people's blogs but I never had one of my own til now. How will I use it? Well, I think I'll just start with the Library 2.0 Challenge and see where it goes from there. Who knows what ideas I might come up with.




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7 1/2 Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learners

Learning is . . . acquiring a new skill or knowledge.

We should never stop learning: remember that it is never to soon or too late for learning something new, life is learning, if we aren't learning we are probably dead - and even then I can only Imagine.

After listening to the 7 1/2 Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learners tutorial. I decided that the hardest habit for me would be Habit 7: Teach/mentor others or Habit 1: Begin with the end in mind -- making decisions wasn't on the list. While I can and do teach things to others I am not really great at the whole talking and presenting thing. But stepping out of my comfort zone has been great for my personal development and the process of helping someone else learn really does help reinforce it in your own mind. As far as beginning with the end in mind I have a hard time determining what goals to have. I like learning all sorts of things and deciding what to choose takes a while - I guess making decisions was on the list.

The habit that is easiest for me? Well..., that would be Habit 2: Accept Responsibility for your own learning; or would it be Habit 4: Have confidence in yourself as a competent, effective learner. Decisions, decisions, decisions. For me the two go together in a way - If I want to learn something I will.