Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Flickr

Trying to catch up....
Flickr was rather interesting. Creating the account and posting the image was very easy. But I have to admit that I have not yet once mastered a 'thing' in 15 minutes. This must be the time for someone who uses these tools day in day out.

I have not managed to create the link from Flickr to this blog because I cannot determine what kind of blogger I am using: Atomblog, bloggerblog? I cannot tell to which category blogspot belongs.

After 1.5 hours I am giving up on this one.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Blogscope, Sphere, Blog.Ask.com

Information overload! Whenever I think about the vast amounts of information that are now available on blogs, my immediate reaction is: Do I really want to know all this, or even just know that all of this is out there.

I also wonder what prompts people to invest so much time in writing up their blogs, but it seems to be a modern version of the serial letters that I write to my friends every year during the holidays.

Of the search engines we looked at in Thing#3 I liked Sphere the best. It is nice to be able to get the latest news on a given topic. Sphere offered a Widget that would connect one to the latest news in a chosen field of interest which I found very interesting. Except the link did not work. I will try again...

Blogsscope was not very interesting to me, because it is unimportant for my limited purposes to know which keywords get the most interest. For any kind of marketing research this would probably be very interesting.

Blog.Ask.com was more interesting because it organized the information.

Technorati fell into the category of information overload - similar to a Google search.

Blogscope, Sphere, Blog.Ask.com

Information overload! Whenever I think about the vast amounts of information that are now available on blogs, my immediate reaction is: Do I really want to know all this, or even just know that all of this is out there.

I also wonder what prompts people to invest so much time in writing up their blogs, but it seems to be a modern version of the serial letters that I write to my friends every year during the holidays.

Of the search engines we looked at in Thing#3 I liked Sphere the best. It is nice to be able to get the latest news on a given topic. Sphere offered a Widget that would connect one to the latest news in a chosen field of interest which I found very interesting. Except the link did not work. I will try again...

Blogsscope was not very interesting to me, because it is unimportant for my limited purposes to know which keywords get the most interest. For any kind of marketing research this would probably be very interesting.

Blog.Ask.com was more interesting because it organized the information.

Technorati fell into the category of information overload - similar to a Google search.