facebook now I really feel old

I've been on Facebook for a while. I signed up for the fun of it and gmail immediately told me there were lots of people in my contacts list who were on facebook - all the young actors I know from theatre. So I immediately got a bunch of friends. But the down side is I've been cruising around there profiles and have a couple of times felt like a voyeur. I think my standard of what gets shared publicly is a tad more conservative than theirs.

Still it's fun when someone writes on my wall.

I must be a totally visual person

Well, I like YouTube almost as much as Flickr. I could see how I could while away days on this site. After doing the library suggested searches I put in Border Terrier and watched about 10 of them. There is the usual range of talent and time to produce, but most of them were interesting to watch. Made me wish I owned a video camera.

My dear friend Lou would have loved this!

I think the idea of cataloguing my own books is, to quote a friend from the same era as the intro music to this lesson, not a happening thing. I have spent the last 5 years donating my art books and so on, and I now only keep those very very special books, or reference books. I am simplifying!

But my dear friend Lou, who died last July would have loved this site. He had a ton of books - I do believe that is a literally true statement - and he used to keep multiples so he could give them away. I think he might have liked putting them in Dewey number order or arguing with the tags others assigned to his favorites.

But he's gone now, so I will just keep this idea in mind for that next academically oriented person I encounter in life.

Better than Google Images

I just looked at Flickr and was pleasantly surprised. Here is something I can really use. I loved the feature of searching by key words, and since I had just returned from England, I search Quaker Meeting houses, and found some lovely pictures, quite a few artfully taken that covered places I had not been.

So clearly my photos are NEEDED on Flickr. I can even post them there for my 5 cousins and avoid the problem I had with their CD's which I could not open on my computer.

Yay! I love it. Fun and useful. Yay!

RSS-ResistSeeingSimplyeverything

Well, that didn't fly. I was thinking of a way to characterize the value of RSS. I think on thing I like about it is having the New York Times headlines delivered to me each day, but I could do that with setting my home page to them. This way I get to have a lot more things put in front of my face. The old "access to excess" problem. Since I have these feeds, now I think I have to look at them. More time on the computer and less time walking my dog or watching the sunset.

This is definitely a resource to be carefully managed. I see it as a moderation in all things problem. Great value as a tool. I can see now that in addition to the hour I spend on email every day I'll start spending some time on my feeds.

Help!

I've loooked at clouds from both sides now . . .

OK, much shorter this time, we are having technical difficulties. So I've discovered that tagging is a lot like the old fashioned book marking, and just as useful. So great!

On to the next.