Wow, the Library Learning 2.0 Team...

is quick. Someone (Ann, Danielle, Ken, Kerry, or Sue) already fixed the instructions for Bloglines.

Thanks!

Things #5a and 5b: RSS and news feeds

Bloglines is fairly straightforward to use, although I did hit two snags:

1, the picture on the Library Learning 2.0 blog no longer matches Bloglines' layout, so it took me a few moments to find the "Share" option.

2, the "Blogroll Wizard" asked for my username. I assumed this was the e-mail address I registered under, but no, it's not. Go to "Account" (upper right corner), then choose "Blog Settings" and create a user name. Since "Belinda" was already taken, I chose my nickname, "Xanthippe".

Also installed a subscribe button on my Firefox bookmarks toolbar... and the Dashboard widget to notify me when there is news...

And I added that short-story blog, A Curious Singularity, to my list of feeds. This week they are discussing Isak Dinesen's story, "The Blank Page."

Thing #4: Discover flickr

"I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills..."

flickr and other photo sites complement the Library's licensed image databases, ARTstor, AP/Accunet, etc., by offering many, many travel photos and documentary photos.

(Friday update: After listening to Angelika's concerns, I wrote the photographer, Pablo Sanchez, to ask his permission to put this photo on my blog. Thank you very much, Pablo!)

Thing #3 notes

Tried searching phrases, "art news", "damien hirst", etc. on the search engines...

Technorati's advanced search, "slide library", brought up ArLiSNAP, a blog by/for "Art Library Students & New ARLIS Professionals." Nice.

blog.ask.com yielded a link to the mysterious "Red Library Entity".
http://paranormal.about.com/od/ghostphotos/ig/2005-
Photo-Hoax-Contest-Slide/Red-Library-Entity.htm

Searching "Isak Dinesen", I found a short story discussion group, "A Curious Singularity". This might be an interesting blog to track.

First blog post

#2. I have set up a blog and this is my first post.