Facebook

I chose to join facebook, listed myself as a Santa Cruz person and cruised through the other Santa Cruz names. Bumped into a few Cabrillo folks. I am not alone but the list is really short.

Bloglines

I'm set up now for slashdot.com, Wired.com as well as LII new this week and Infoblog. Now I have to bookmark my feed page and start going there every day or so.

Flikr time

I have been using Shutterfly for years to share "albums" of my own (mostly family) digital photos. Flikr is all about sharing with the world, not just mailing a link to chosen friends to view your latest pics. I'm not sure that I care about the level of detail needed. Flikr folks are describing their camera and production details as well as copyrighting the images. I searched for and found a lot of neat bird pictures taken by photographers with incredible skills and much better cameras than I have access to.

Searching for Blogs

I found the search tools inconsistent from day to day. My non-academic search was for a Greek word "yiayia" which means grandmother. I found odd uses of the word. I found one interesting long reflective blog entry from an ex-pat living in Greece. In the academic sphere I read my way through a few library owned, library produced "what's new" type blogs. Not sure that they are really valuable to a cc user.