You Tube video

Gorilla Librarian

Week 4, Thing 8 RSS Feeds

The first step with RSS feeds was deceptively simple; however, trying to get the RSS feeds from Bloglines linked into my Blogger blog was a challenge. The screen shot on our instructions is not how the site is currently configured. "Share" is actually on the left hand side of the screen all the way down and does not appear as a tab. When first subscribing to Bloglines your user name is your email address, but in order to share your feeds you need to change your user name under "Account" then "Blog Settings" and then click on make your Blogroll public. Then you can get the HTML code to add to your blog. Whew...there was a lot of frustration involved with this thing. But - YEA! The blogroll is now up my blog!

Week 4, Thing 8 - RSS on Bloglines

Easy set up, just user name and password. I signed up for a bunch of feeds and then realized that I needed to scale back, some were duplicates that I had already set up on My Yahoo and others I would still regularly check the site. But I can definitely understand the appeal of having an aggregator for new information from regularly read blogs and websites.

Week 3, Thing 7 - Technology related post

We're supposed to write about anything technology related that currently catches our attention. As I am currently being distracted by downloadable video technology and You Tube that will be my topic. I added video content to my blog - the book cart drill team from the opening of the new Pratt branch (I am actually in the video towards the end in the audience) and a Muppet video of the Mahna Mahna Song. It was surprisingly easy to do.

I didn't have a similar experience when trying my first Amazon Unboxed video download last week, but after the second call to customer support I was assured that my experience was completely atypical. Once the issue was corrected on their end (vindication - first call to their tech support ended with the guy saying "Well, everything here is okay, maybe this isn't going to work out for you.") everything worked fine and I was able to transfer the movie to my video MP3. The transfer was totally easy and gave me the confidence to then try to utilizing a video grabber site (http://www.zamzar.com/) that I saw referenced in a LJ article about web 2.0 . The site allows you to save a copy to your hard drive of a video clip, like a You Tube video, into a variety of different formats. It only took a few minutes of playing with it to get how it works. Pretty cool.

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UPDATE:

It was driving me crazy that I couldn't find the article that I read since I wanted to link to it. I finally found it. It was in the eNewsletter American Libraries Direct 5/9/2007 not LJ as I previously thought. Here's the link to the original article that was on Mashable which reviews several other ways to download You Tube videos.

Can't leave out the Naughty Puppy

Here is a Warholized picture of Dash.

Week 3, Thing 6 - Flickr 3rd Party Sites

I played with fd's flickr toys this morning and created a magazine cover and a Warholized picture. Hard to stop playing with this, definitely having too much fun.

Week 3, Thing 5 - Flickr

I have spent some time on Flickr this morning and have registered (hammer28) and have uploaded some pictures. It was a lot of fun, I have used Yahoo Photos, Easy Share, and Snapfish before; however, none of those comes close to all the cool things that they have on Flickr.