Week 4 - RSS & Newsreaders

Webopedia defines RSS (Really Simple Syndication) or (Rich Site Summary) as the standard for the syndication of Web content. It goes on to say that RSS is an XML-based format and while it can be used in different ways for content distribution, its most widespread usage is in distributing news headlines on the Web.

I think of RSS as an alternative way to access updated, personalized information in the World Wide Web. Organized, sorted by date, information of interest is sent to the user's computer via RSS files.

RSS, originially developed by Netscape in 1999, requires a special reader like "Bloglines" to view messages. It is mostly used by news sites and webblogs.

Week 4 - Bloglines

I created my bloglines account and added several feeds from IHCPL. I also added my feed and several news feeds. I added the Bloglines link to my sidebar for anyone visiting my blog.

I added Feedster on my sidebar to show another way to collect feeds after reading a tidbit from Grace Notes. Cool!!

Week 3 - Flickr Part 3 - Create a badge

I created my badge on Flickr powered by Yahoo, which I found very helpful. Everything that I have done on Flickr has been simple with easy to follow steps.
Step 1, Flickr asks; "What sort of badge would you like to use?" I selected a flash badge because I like the movement of flash images.
Step 2. Choose Photos you'd like to display. I selected all my public photos.
Step 3. Choose colors for your badge. I selected my colors and Flickr showed me a preview.
Step 4. Get the code to copy and paste into your website. I added the HTML/Javascript Page Element to my blog and added the code and publish the post.

I used Pixer to edit my pictures and rotate my alligator. Simple right. I LOVE IT!!!! My badge is just another version of flickr Mashup. Now I see my pictures moving all over my badge, Even my upside down alligator. Sweet!! Yeah, he's tough enough.

Week 3 - Flickr Card - Motivation

I created this card with fd's Flickr Toys. Another feature of Flickr that felt comfortable and easy to use. The steps were listed and I followed. This is so much fun!

Week 3 - More Flickr

Wake up guys! You are here to learn!

I used a digital camera to capture this image, then I uploaded it to flickr and posted it. Do you like my bears? I had so much fun with flickr, I had to force myself to do the other assignments. I also used flickr spell which I demonstrated in my blog.

Week 3 - Photos & Images

I successfully uploaded my five images to flickr.com, but Flickr took a lot longer than I thought to process the images. The site provides various tools to upload your images. There is a web-based upload form http://www.flickr.com/photos/upload/(which is the way I selected to upload my images). You can also upload by email to dregs22having@photos.flickr.com and add subject lines to give your photo a title, or add descriptions and tags.

Flickr also offer a software called Flickr Uploadr which allows you to publish photos into Flickr from your computer. The Uploadr has to be installed on your computer and then pictures can be dragged and dropped into the Uploadr.

I found the process of setting up a flickr account fairly simple because I already had a yahoo account and except for the time it took for the processing of the photos, the process was pretty painless.