Breadth and Depth of Content

As I look over my blog, it's really neat to see the breadth of content that can be assembled in one website. There are some things I don't have, like YouTube links or inserts, but there's still a lot of information that can be highlighted.

On a Podcast High

Hey, scroll down and check out my dog-lovers' widget. It's a bit hard to get to due to the page template, but in the upper right corner of the widget you can click on the little bit of headphone graphic that shows. That will take you to the DogCast Radio website and when you click the play button you will hear the broadcast of their latest show - which from the accent must be produced in England. Amazing!!! I also added two podcasts to my Bloglines account, one of which was The Onion - I'm going to have to watch that I don't spend too much time listening to that one during work hours, but it's hilarious.
I love the idea of adding podcasting to MPLs Teen Topix book blog for teens. It'd be great to get teens reviewing their favorite books on podcasts and then post them on Teen Topix. I also really like that music can be added to podcasts. The podcasts I listened to that had a consistent jingle at the opening sounded more "radio-like" and just cooler. This has been a fun assignment and I'm looking forward to sharing the capabilities with friends and family.

That "I get it" feeling

I'm not sure I quite get social networking sites, though if dogster.com is a social networking site for dogs, then maybe I do. I'll re-read the assignment and look at the library sites again. I'm not sure how people who don't use their library would happen upon their local library's profile in facebook or my space. Anyway, I did happen upon this article from the NY Times about the difficulties people are having deleting their accounts from facebook in particular. Now I understand how social networking sites are viable - even dogster has adds for dog-type products and other things.

Oops

It looks like I didn't comment about the week 2 assignment, Google Docs. I added a photo of Barney raking leaves to the project play slide show. It was pretty straightforward. I like knowing that people can use Google Docs to work on their word processing files, without needing the Word program on the computer, because three of the five internet access computers we have don't have Word on them. I'm looking forward to testing it out and seeing if it works well for patrons.

No Assignment?

Okay, so nothing much is up with the pups and there's no assignment, so I really don't have much to blog about. Still, I feel duty-bound to post something this week, just to keep up the flow.

Barney's first birthday is coming up in March - when Chelsea had her first birthday we had a party with all her dog friends at Cherokee Marsh dog park. It was a hoot, to say the least. Originally I had ordered chocolate cake (for the people), but then I realized that was a really bad idea since many of Chelsea's canine friends were at picnic-table height and could maybe snag an unattended piece of cake. Sure enough, Chelsea grabbed a piece (I switched to yellow cake) off a plate that our neighbor's daughter was trying to hand out to the human attendees. I also had made some doggie snacks - little liver biscuits with peanut butter smeared on them. And Bev and I supplied doggie party favor bags with biscuits, ball and squeaker toy. Of course the decoration theme was none other than Scooby-Doo. I still have a picture of Chelsea wearing her Scooby-Doo birthday hat.

Odd...

Okay, I sent my email for the Remember The Milk assignment, and not only did my name and task show up on the list, my email signature showed up on the list in six different places. Hmmm... If I have time this week I'll try the telephone thing. I really like the idea of using an online list with a phone. It's good to know what tools are out there and being used by people, too. Okay, I signed in and figured out how to delete the lines that were my email signature. I also gave my task a due day, and since it was a weekly task I set it to recurr.

Meanwhile, I added some photos of the dogs to flickr.com and tagged them barneypup, and sure enough, they're now showing up in the slideshow.

Moment of Dogster Fun

Just posted Barney and Chelsea's pages on Dogster. Here's Barney's Page. And here's Chelsea's Page.

Make Your Dog Famous!

Allright, maybe small-time fame, but, nonetheless, wouldn't you like to see your dog's cute mug come up in my blog's sidebar slideshow??? Come on - I know you want to. Here's how. Add the photo(s) of your dog to your Flickr.com account and give them the tag "barneypup." The way the slide show is set up, this should automatically get your photos to appear in the slide show. Anyone wanna try it and see if it works?

Instant Messaging Unlike Instant Coffee

Okay, last Friday Katherine, Terry and I were all at Sequoya working at separate computers and figured out enough to IM each other using Meebo and Yahoo accounts. It wasn't easy, and took quite a while to do, but we did it. The actual messaging may be instant, but the set up seems to take a chunk of time, and I still don't have a working Meebo widget, but have a guess why that might be. Meanwhile, the slideshow on my blog is now up and working, so if you'd like your dog's pic.s to appear, simply tag your dog's photo in Flickr with the tag "barneypup" and it'll appear in the slideshow.

Sharing

Hey Everybody,
Chelsea and Barney would like to share their slide show space with your dogs. Here's the easiest way to do this. Add the photo(s) of your dog to your Flickr.com account and give them the tag "barneypup." The way the slide show is set up, this should automatically get your photos to appear in the slide show. Anyone wanna try it and see if it works? And, hey, please don't any wise crackers out there add barneypup tags to, say, cat photos, flower photos, shoe tread photos, you get my drift. Thanks!