Task 10 LibraryThing

A poor start to the week. After wasting quite some time trying to figure out not just how to use RSS feeds, but why on earth I might want to, I have decided to move on and return to RSS when I am feeling more positive.

And so to LibraryThing. This is a fun place to be - here are my books. The first book I added to my Library probably neatly sums up my feelings about LibraryThing, Flickr, Picasa and RSS Feeds.

It's taken a book about one of my passions, patchwork and quilting, to introduce me to some of the concepts of Zen Buddhism. The author relates creating quilts to understanding Buddhism's Eight Keys to Happiness. One of those keys is "right purpose". "If your purpose for making a quilt, or your purpose for doing anything for that matter, is clear to you, it's easier to commit yourself to the task."

I can see the value in all these sites and I appreciate the opportunity to learn about them because the day may come when they serve the right purpose for me. Because I love having books, reading them, talking about them, sharing them I might come back to LibraryThing sooner. It was certainly easy to join, fairly intuitive to use and fun to play around on - but then so too is the Book Club I belong to.

Task 7 Comment on blogs and blogging

I've received a couple of comments - thank you - and I've posted a couple of comments.
I chose posts I wanted to comment on and was fortunate to have found bloggers using different blog websites. Both were easy to post to.

I'm enjoying blogging - I've never kept a diary so this seems like a similar indulgence - and I think that's a little how I feel about it - it's a bit self-indulgent if you've nothing to say that is actually either meaningful or very funny. But, for the purposes of the exercise it's great fun.

Task 6 Use Picasa Web Albums

I've played around with Picasa. I enjoyed playing Where in the World - and managed to come within spitting distance for a few pictures - but through blind luck rather than knowledge. I havn't published an image of my own. As I already have pics on Flickr I didnt see much point in uploading more stuff to another site, especially since my interest in photography is practically nil and my ability roughly the same - the thought of sharing my pictures with the world is almost embarrassing.
Still - it's good to know another place to browse other than Google Images.
I found these lovely images on Picasa while I was looking at Amish quilts - I got distracted by a photo of a quilt draped over a covered bridge and went off to look at covered bridges instead....

Task 5 Explore Flikr!

I had a few problems uploading to Flikr using Firefox, but found it much easier when I tried IE. I have uploaded some pictures which you can view here