Inspired by Jason Kaspar's OPL Digital Images Rollyo, I thought I try to create one to search the 3 sites I search when researching Native American images - the digital collection of the Denver Public Library, the Library of Congress, and The Smithsonian. I wasn't expecting a lot of success because the 3 sites have there own search catalogs. I got some results, but it would probably take a lot of tweaking to get the results limited to digital images.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Thing #11 Library Thing
I've looked at LibraryThing a couple of times considering adding it to HIP. In 2007 the Similar Titles function wasn't very impressive, and I never got a response when I asked for pricing. I've added the LibraryThing widget to the right.
Thing #10 Image Generators
It was fun trying some of the image generators listed at The Generator Blog.
I'm posting one here created at Museumr - Scamper on display at The Alte Pinakothek Art Gallery in Munich.
Thing #9 FInding Feeds
I did some searching at Topix, Synic8, and Technorati, and didn't care for any other them. If I was a news junkie I might have liked them, although involvment of users in the editing of news at Topix makes me question the information I would find there - mixing news with wikipedia methods isn't a good combination. All 3 search tools were confusing, and all the advertising made it worse.
Blogline's search tool was better. Using the "more" search features helped a little in getting better results.
Blogline's search tool was better. Using the "more" search features helped a little in getting better results.
Thing #8 RSS
I got my notes out from when I took Michael Sauers's workshop on RSS, and found my blogger password. I was surprised to see my account was still there. I got caught up on some feeds, and subscribed to some new ones, including 2 owhatageek blogs, and noticed Firefox gave me the option to add the subscription to Blogger, but IE didn't. That I haven't checked Blogger since the workshop reflects the fact that I've never found rss feeds useful.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Thing #6 : More Flickr fun
I looked at the some of the mashups and they were interesting and ok time-killers, but most of them I wouldn't make a point to revisit. I did like http://www.search-cube.com/. I think I first saw this concept used to organize pc desktops. When I searched for "origami" it came up with some interesting hits that I hadn't seen before.
I used a Rinehart photo with Trading Card Maker to make this image. Tobacco companies used to make trading cards, and pictures of Native American was a popular theme.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Paperweight - Lagoon & Fine Arts Building
#5Flickr
I learned about Flickr when I set up an account for the Trans-Mississippi Exposition Historical Association (TMEHA). During the Expo Centennial TMEHA took photos of Expo souvenirs from member collections and elsewhere. I thought uploading the images to Flickr would be a good way to have those who know more about souvenir spoons, glassware, etc, to add tags and descriptions. I got as far as moving about 2/3 of the images into collections and sets then let the project slide. I used this geek assignment to finish moving the images into sets, inviting 2 OPL and 2 TMEHA members to visit the site. The site is non-public for now, but I've made one image public to test posting to this blog.
I learned about Flickr when I set up an account for the Trans-Mississippi Exposition Historical Association (TMEHA). During the Expo Centennial TMEHA took photos of Expo souvenirs from member collections and elsewhere. I thought uploading the images to Flickr would be a good way to have those who know more about souvenir spoons, glassware, etc, to add tags and descriptions. I got as far as moving about 2/3 of the images into collections and sets then let the project slide. I used this geek assignment to finish moving the images into sets, inviting 2 OPL and 2 TMEHA members to visit the site. The site is non-public for now, but I've made one image public to test posting to this blog.
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