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I signed up for a Bloglines account. It's cool that you can "tailor-make" your own site. I have everything from news to weather to jokes on my site.

I was playing with some of the Flickr features. I really enjoyed the Flickr Postcard Browser -- you could view postcards and photos from whatever location you typed in (ex. "Maryland", or "Cypress Gardens", etc.). Really cool. I took a look at the API site that you can register for so you can make your own mashups. Wow, does that seem complicated! My head is spinning -- hard to get used to the technical jargon when you're not used to it.

Hey I'm a covergirl!

My creation
Originally uploaded by stackdancer

Playing with this flickr toy was fun. I created my own magazine cover. It was tricky finding a photo that was a workable size, etc. and then you had to find a layout that would work with the photo.

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reading road trip 060
Originally uploaded by stackdancer

I took this photo at our branch. This year's Summer Reading Club theme is "Take a Reading Road Trip". This box and literature advertises the Adult program. The pretty flowers are from our local garden club!

Posting pictures to my blog seems so complicated. I'm trying. Just finding the time to do this entire exercise is difficult as a part-timer with other duties, but am determined to work it in!

Flickr fun!

I set up a Flickr account and uploaded some pictures. Out of all of our assignments so far, this is my favorite! I can see how I'd use this to store and classify my photos. Maybe I'll have better luck with this than my non-existent half-hearted attempt to put photos in albums!