Week 3: Photos and Images (to be continued)

Libra,
originally uploaded by ☀Benjamin.

#5 Discover Flickr

While exploring flickr, this is the photo I found most interesting and decided to blog. I love black and white photos, plus I think it linked perfectly with libraries and my 'zodiac sign' blog title and screen name!

I have explored, established an account, upload and organised photos in flickr over a couple of hours, so I'm feeling pretty confident about this application. It was certainly interesting to see what images others are willing to share. In using flickr, I have decided not to make photos of my family public, but rather use this application as a means of providing family and friends with a window into our 'still' lives.

In regards to library services and promotion, I think photos could be taken at various library events (with appropriate permissions of course) and flickr could help liven up library blogs. Which brings forth an interesting question: Would it be useful to continue to photographically track changes in library environs and post them on flickr and Picture Australia as appropriate?

Before I continue to the next task, I thought I'd make some comments about adding images from flickr to Blogger. Before the hints on how to add images were posted on the Learning 2.0 Blog, I added the above Libra image via a link (Blog this) from the flickr picture into Blogger rather than by saving to, and inserting the image from, my pc. I'm assuming this is not necessarily incorrect rather it's a management issue for me. That is, I'll need to be aware that by linking this image from flickr to Blogger if it's taken off flickr I'll have no image in my blog.

Anyway, to cover my bases, I've posted another image from flickr with the save and add image process. I chose this image of hand made books (posted in flickr by wiccked & titled Library Books) because of its simplicity.

I will be looking at mashups and the like next. Therefore, this post is to be continued...

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