Thing 9--Locate a few news feeds

Enough already! This is too time consuming. Thing 8 asked me to find ten feeds I probably won't use, so why do more? I looked at Technorati, Feedster and Syndic8. I get the idea. I don't have hobbies that make this relevant and I'm really not interested in reading other people's blogs (I saw one in Technorati that was full of woe is me I should end it now--tagged as health & wellness--so I had to end it now). I'm moving on to Thing 10.

Thing 8, Part 2

After I went home the day I completed Thing 8, I was thinking about the lesson and I realized that RSS is much simpler than the exercise made it seem. Maybe it's my learning style, but all the "overviews" with their technical lingo were difficult for me to focus on (it sounded way too abstract), but once I started doing it I found it was really quite easy. I learn better by being shown & then doing, so it might be me. At any rate I feel alot of time was wasted on this exercise.

Thing 8 - RSS feeds & Bloglines

I did the various RSS discovery exercises and created a Bloglines account. I don't have 10 feeds yet, but I'm working on it. The truth is I wouldn't be using this in my "real life" so I don't have loads of ideas. It's a very useful thing to know, tho, and I'm sure someday I will need this.
Here is my public URL to share:
but I'm not sure if this is right. Let's test it out...
It wasn't right, but now it is:
http://www.bloglines.com/public/squeakycheese
The share button was not where the learning 2.0 blog indicated but I did find it. However it was not mentioned that I would have to specifically set up my account to be publicly viewed, which was why it didn't work at first.
Slow going sometimes, but I'm glad I'm doing this.
And now...
the bookdrop!

Thing 7 - Something technology related

Ummm....
I'm not much for technology (this isn't really true, its more that I use what I already know and need on a regular basis and don't bother with the rest). I like it, but learning new tech things takes too much time so I often don't bother. I'm having fun with the 2.0 stuff, tho. It's making me want to buy a digital camera. I will soon. I haven't started a flickr account but I definitely plan to. I don't have much to say on this topic (yet...16 more "things" will surely give me something else to say)

Thing 6: mashup discovery exercise

This is fun. I especially liked Flickr chia pet http://www.krazydad.com/defacement/. On this site you can "plant" chia seeds on pictures of people's bald heads (or ???) and watch them grow. Mappr looks interesting, but I couldn't quite figure out how it works. I will definitely want to spend some more time with it. It's neat to be able to see what other people think is worthwhile about a particular place, and puts more of a "face" on all those maps I've spent so much time gazing at. I enjoyed the "signs" tag on mappr; I have a thing for signage, especially historic or antique.