Week 4, RSS feeds

Well, I've just spent an hour reading book reviews and other people's blogs. It has been great fun - and I don't even have to promise to be anyone's friend! It's like secretly reading someone's diary, but without the moral queasiness. There are some great posts out there - I'm especially indebted to the lovely Nancy Pearl of ACL for the porcupine. My question now is this: can I spend an hour reading feeds every day, and call it working?

Week 3 (but a bit late)

Flickr is one of my favourite sites as my family is insatiable for photos of my children! By posting them on Flickr I can keep a dozen people happy with one upload. Sure beats emailing enormous files around the world.

Accessing it for this training has proven a bit of a challenge... I couldn't remember the password for my account (my computer at home kindly remembers it for me). I requested a reminder which got sent to an old (dead) email address. So I have had to go home, update the account on Flickr from the machine which knows the password (although it won't tell it to me...) then come back into work and request another reminder. At long last I have access and have been able to post a picture of my lovely children for your viewing pleasure.

The best Flickr tool ever as far as I am concerned is the Mac photo uploader I found some time ago. Suddenly uploading photos went from fiddly and time consuming to a one-click effort. Now the hardest part of the process is remembering where I put the camera!