My Dog is Licking My Laptop!

Seriously...I had to wrestle for a space to see the screen. I think she was also getting lost in adding restaurant and market links to my del.icio.us account. Here's a sloganizer for you faithful readers,

Del.icio.us has gone to the dogs

Reflecting on the semester, my latest questions are thus:

1. What is the correct format for editing and changing blog posts? Is it okay for one to simply edit and republish? Or is one supposed to use a strikethrough for edited areas and add in new info in italics or something of the sort? Is there some sort of blogiquette I should be aware of?

2. How does a semester 1 participant register for Project Play semester 2? Or are we automatically registered simply by finishing? Will there be a registration limitation and thus I should be noting the start time and date on my google calendar?

3. How many diet cokes did you enjoy during our first semester? I lost count!

Week 5 Inquiry

For the last week I have gone along, happy as a clam, thinking I had kept up with all of my Project Play assignments when, suddenly, I took a look at my actual blog today only to discover NO POST from week 5. That's right folks, until just a few moments ago the post you may read below did not exist here. In fact that post was living on my personal blog, confusing family and friend alike! Thankfully I was able to move it over here but what happened? My troubleshooting process was this:

1. Verify that my flickr account is set up to post to this blog. Check
2. Try another post from flickr to this blog. Check
3. Return to this blog and see the new post from flickr. Nope!
4. Visit my personal blog again to check for new post from flickr. Check
5. Repeat steps 1-4, triple checking that I am selecting this blog to post to and not my other, personal blog Check, and still no flickr post here.

For some wacky reason, any blog post I try to make from flickr is going onto my personal blog, despite the fact that I have added this ProjectPlay blog to my flickr account's blog list and am choosing it to blog to. If anyone out there knows what might be going on, please do fill me in.

I think its time to move on to Project Play Week 7.

Snow in October

Bet that title caught your attention! This is a photo of the library taken quite a while ago, in about January of 2006 I believe. I thought it a fitting one to share in this episode of my Project Play blog.

I have been using flickr for a couple years as a way to share the abundance of photos I take of my pets with family and friends near and far; however, until this assignment I hadn't really thought about flickr as a tool that could be used by the library. I could see a flickr badge on a library's website as a great way to show site visitors all of the different materials, displays, programs, etc. available at the library. The challenge would probably be, as usual, designating a staff person or finding a volunteer to make time to keep the pictures fresh, up-to-date, and interesting. If my library creates a public blog, I think a flickr account would fit hand-in-hand, allowing staff bloggers to attach images to their posts. My least favorite thing about flickr is that if one uses the blog entry tool from within flickr (as I am doing now), you loose the ability to do creative formatting of your post such as embedding links to other blogs & sites and changing your font color and size.

If you havn't tried this already, two fun searches to try in flickr are your library's name (to see what kind of photos of your library people are posting) and you or your pet's first names (to see who else in the world has the same name). On a search of my library's name, I found a great close up shot of the fish tank in our children's room!