6/26/2007
6/22/2007
#5a and #5b
In general, feeds are a great way to look at headlines, but I fail to see the wisdom in using Bloglines. To take the Blogline detour instead of adding site feeds directly to my blog only makes sense to me if I accumulate too many feeds to manage, which seems highly unlikely. Blogger allows you to control how many headlines you want displayed per feed, so you can curb the clutter right there. I suppose I can hide my feeds from public view by tucking them away on Bloglines, but since I don't have anything to hide it's still a thumbs down from me.
#5 Holy Smokes, another account!
Thank Goodness Scott's not here, I'm feeling slightly cantankerous again!
#4 Continued: Images and Copyright
Has anybody else studied the Flickr guidelines? Is anybody else asking permission first? I discussed the issue with Belinda yesterday. Let me know what you're take is, fellow library bloggers. Comment, please, that's what we have the little pencil icon for, at the end of each post, n'est-ce pas?
Lucky me & YAY, though! Cornelius wrote back already, saying that it's ok to post his photo. Thank you!
6/21/2007
#4 Flickr: Images and Copyright
Scott is rolling his eyes. "What now, irascible German life form one desk over, what's your problem now ?!?"
Well, I'm peeved, and I need to express my peevedness. The Library makes me open accounts with all kinds of sites that I never had any inclination to open accounts with. With which I never had any... et cetera.
Scott says, "nobody's making you.. Either you want the 50 bucks, or not"
Fine! I sign up for a Yahoo account to open a flickr account to advance to step 4 of 23, which all the sudden seems a looong way to go.
I finally log on to Flickr looking for "santa cruz"
Flickr says "We found 143,046 results for photos matching santa and cruz."
Wow!
Now let's see if anybody wants to share one of the 143,046 results.
One very nice Cornelius Crab invites me to download a very pretty picture of "Santa Cruz, California looking up coast towards Natural Bridges State Beach" with a choice of file sizes. Thank you very much, Cornelius Crab, you're a true giver!
But, no, wait, not so fast, there is a little copyright icon under the photo! Grinding halt, followed by brow-furrowing &
head-scratching over truely mixed messages.
I study Flickr's FAQ and "Community Guidelines" and come to the conclusion that, although I'm invited to download, and although the photo is marked "public" it is not actually in the public domain. Flickr advises that every photo on the site is copyrighted (even without a license/"All rights reserved" at the bottom) and that the person who shot the picture is to be contacted before one can "use" it (w/o defining use). See:
http://www.flickr.com/help/photos/#87
"How can I copyright my photos?"
As the good girl I am when it comes to copyright issues I will contact Cornelius and ask permission first before I show the image here, until then click on todays title to be linked to the photo.
PS: How we could use flickr for research?
Crab man's photo could be used for a lecture on shoreline corrosion, for instance, once we have the copyright issue cleared up.
Well, I'm peeved, and I need to express my peevedness. The Library makes me open accounts with all kinds of sites that I never had any inclination to open accounts with. With which I never had any... et cetera.
Scott says, "nobody's making you.. Either you want the 50 bucks, or not"
Fine! I sign up for a Yahoo account to open a flickr account to advance to step 4 of 23, which all the sudden seems a looong way to go.
I finally log on to Flickr looking for "santa cruz"
Flickr says "We found 143,046 results for photos matching santa and cruz."
Wow!
Now let's see if anybody wants to share one of the 143,046 results.
One very nice Cornelius Crab invites me to download a very pretty picture of "Santa Cruz, California looking up coast towards Natural Bridges State Beach" with a choice of file sizes. Thank you very much, Cornelius Crab, you're a true giver!
But, no, wait, not so fast, there is a little copyright icon under the photo! Grinding halt, followed by brow-furrowing &
head-scratching over truely mixed messages.
I study Flickr's FAQ and "Community Guidelines" and come to the conclusion that, although I'm invited to download, and although the photo is marked "public" it is not actually in the public domain. Flickr advises that every photo on the site is copyrighted (even without a license/"All rights reserved" at the bottom) and that the person who shot the picture is to be contacted before one can "use" it (w/o defining use). See:
http://www.flickr.com/help/photos/#87
"How can I copyright my photos?"
As the good girl I am when it comes to copyright issues I will contact Cornelius and ask permission first before I show the image here, until then click on todays title to be linked to the photo.
PS: How we could use flickr for research?
Crab man's photo could be used for a lecture on shoreline corrosion, for instance, once we have the copyright issue cleared up.
#3 Continued
Trying out blogscope I came across Tailrank.com
Tailrank seems to be an ideal site if you are looking for news from sources with different political background & bias.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Tailrank.com is a site that provides a feed of content on the World Wide Web that's being discussed across the blogosphere. The site continuously scans blogs that have been registered with it, and composes an index of "top stories" that have been cited by the various blogs it has scanned.
The focus of the site is the news items themselves, but users are also able to see snippets of the various blog citations that made the story popular.
The list of top stories changes over time; newer items are given a higher score than older items, and more popular items are given a higher score than less popular items. Items high on the list tend to be articles or posts that have triggered a lot of blog activity over the last day or so.
Because the site's index allows one to follow the spread of ideas from blog to blog, it can be considered a memetracker.
Tailrank seems to be an ideal site if you are looking for news from sources with different political background & bias.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Tailrank.com is a site that provides a feed of content on the World Wide Web that's being discussed across the blogosphere. The site continuously scans blogs that have been registered with it, and composes an index of "top stories" that have been cited by the various blogs it has scanned.
The focus of the site is the news items themselves, but users are also able to see snippets of the various blog citations that made the story popular.
The list of top stories changes over time; newer items are given a higher score than older items, and more popular items are given a higher score than less popular items. Items high on the list tend to be articles or posts that have triggered a lot of blog activity over the last day or so.
Because the site's index allows one to follow the spread of ideas from blog to blog, it can be considered a memetracker.
6/20/2007
#3 Yup
Part 1: Sent off my address to become an official participant.
Part 2: Searching blogs, searching, searching...
Part 3: Here's a short report on
a) Technorati:
A fun word for a warm-up. Random, but specific keywords ("Synchronstimme") work just swell, although Technorati's instant claim of delivering "Everything in the known universe about Synchronstimme" might be slightly exaggerated. Moving on to serious searches...
As academic topic of interest I picked "Visual Resource Collection". A flood of results makes clear that I need to use the "Advanced Search" option. Unfortunately, searching for "Visual Resource Collection" as a phrase catatpults me to the opposite extreme with only two (irrelevant) hits. One person announcing that "Yesterday was my last day working for the Visual Resource Collection...," as well as another person's resume. Do we care? No.
We need to use
b) http://liszen.com/
Where a straightforward search generates a number of promising results, with the option to further finetune. Very attractive on first sight, but let me investigate more at a later point in time; I believe my 15 minutes are very much over...
Part 2: Searching blogs, searching, searching...
Part 3: Here's a short report on
a) Technorati:
A fun word for a warm-up. Random, but specific keywords ("Synchronstimme") work just swell, although Technorati's instant claim of delivering "Everything in the known universe about Synchronstimme" might be slightly exaggerated. Moving on to serious searches...
As academic topic of interest I picked "Visual Resource Collection". A flood of results makes clear that I need to use the "Advanced Search" option. Unfortunately, searching for "Visual Resource Collection" as a phrase catatpults me to the opposite extreme with only two (irrelevant) hits. One person announcing that "Yesterday was my last day working for the Visual Resource Collection...," as well as another person's resume. Do we care? No.
We need to use
b) http://liszen.com/
Where a straightforward search generates a number of promising results, with the option to further finetune. Very attractive on first sight, but let me investigate more at a later point in time; I believe my 15 minutes are very much over...
Where's my gift cerificate?
I have to do 23 exercises first? O no! Next time, I have to remember to read the fine print first!
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