Slideshow--flickr, tags, etc.

Don't know where this fits in, but I just added my library's Flickr photos as a slide show on my blog.
I discovered something cool while trying to do that--I noticed that I could have added a slideshow from Picasa Web Albums, which is where my daughter-in-law posts all of her pictures. I bet if I knew the correct tag, and if she had posted any to the public, I would have been able to run across some of her photos. So I think I'm starting to understand tags, although I don't know how to tag anything.

Later--I've decided to go back and tag all of my postings, now that I know how to do it

I set up a Flickr account and posted some photos on it. I also tagged one of my library photos under "23thingsonastick" but when I searched that tag later I didn't see it with all of the other crazy photos. Oh well. Guess I already wrote about this previously. I'm done goofing around with the Flickr "thing." I've got photos everywhere--I've looked at a ton of photos--I'm really not all that excited about making my photos public but I did make some private on Flickr as well as on three of my social networking sites. That's enough. On to other "things".

#4 Explore Flickr and #5 More Fun with Flickr

Ok so that last thing was an example of a Flickr Mashup I think. It's a combination of using Flickr images with another application. In this case, it's a spelling application. I spelled: "LibrariesRus" and it brought back photos from Flickr that spelled out what I spelled through photographs containing those letters. The interesting thing about it is that each time you click on one of the letters, the application brings back a different photo with that letter on it, so you can keep changing it.

I still don't know what it means to "tag" something. Ok I do now. I've searched tags "23thingsonastick" and "library cats". I tagged one of my flickr photos as 23thingsonastick but I can't pull it up when I search it, nor can I add the photo to my blog via flickr, although I did add it earlier by just browsing the photo from my computer. So, while interesting to find different photos on flickr and neat to post them onto a flickr account, I guess I can't seem to master the transfer to my blog.

#4 Explore Flickr

Our library actually uses Flickr to post photos that we take during programs and such. We all take the photos and our Director posts them to our Flickr account. It's nice because the public can see what we do even if they can't get to the program and it's good advertising so that maybe they'll be encouraged to come to the next program.

This photo actually is a cruise ship library (Carnival Freedom), not our public library, but hey, I was just trying out the Blogging tool bar and this is what happened.

I just signed up for a Flickr account on Monday, Feb. 4, 2008