Week 3, #6 Discovery Exercise

Visiting the myriad of sites featuring Flickr mash-ups and tools gave me mixed feelings. At Flickr Bits and Pieces http://www.flickrbits.com/ there were true wonders to see. I tested a few sites up and down the page, but found The Internet Inferno http://www.theinternetinferno.com/ the most amazing. Flickr photos are displayed that correlate to Wikipedia's description of Dante's Inferno. Evidently they are chosen by way of tags given to the photos. So, be careful of your tags because they could bring you anonymous fame on The Internet Inferno.

My mixed feelings are admiration for the imagination that these "artists" display and share with us, and envy that they have the time to spend on these efforts!

Week 3, #5 - Discovering Flickr

This week we are exploring the wonders of Flickr. Learning how to upload photos and then moving them to my blog was a little trickier than I expected. I chose a picture that I took during the summer reading program. It shows a 68 lb. desert tortoise that was in the middle of entertaining about 85 enthralled children when it decided to leave the activity room and stroll the main area of the library. Usually the patrons working on the computers can't be distracted by anything, but the sight of this enormous tortoise made many of them stop what they were doing and trail after it just like the children. It was a reptile Pied Piper!