Social Networking

Signing up on MySpace was interesting, easy ... kind of fun even. I made a profile, added a picture, located a friend. I tried to personalize a bit by adding a song by a band I like and adding some apps. (well, one app.)
I think people like having a page on MySpace as yet another way to be creative and show their personality a bit. To me it would just be another fun way to communicate if I felt like using it. The jury's still out on that though.
I wasn't wild about all the ads on the site but I guess if they're not going to charge users (yet) they've got to pay for the site somehow. I think it would take a bit of time to make a really interesting/different page. Maybe I'll do that if/when I ever want to take the time. I also had signed up on Facebook earlier but somehow it didn't seem as dramatic or interesting. I'll have to check that one out more later.

Flickr

Denise at Edinburgh Castle
Originally uploaded by Denise Lynn W

I'm not sure if I've done this right but I guess I'll know in a minute when I click on "post entry". I did end up signing up for Flickr and uploading a few pictures from my computer at home. And I THINK I have connected my Flickr account to my Blogger account somehow. Having actually had a computer crash a year ago, and not being able to recover any of the 100s of photos that were on it, I definitely can see that having photos stored on something like Flickr is not a bad idea. Live and learn.

Streaming Music

I went with Finetune for this one. It was fun and easy. Though I haven't yet tried out the sharing part... I feel like I have a little better idea of what the Streaming Music concept is all about now. I have listened to radio stations on the web in the past. I'll probably try out Pandora and some of the others for comparison sake on my own time later on. Maybe even the Sno-Isle Streaming music :-) That way I'll be able to speak somewhat intelligently about all of this, should the subject ever come up.

RSS Feeds

I've been meaning to try using RSS Feeds for a while now. The set up was simple enough. Adding the feeds was easy. It was equally easy to unsubscribe -- which was good because I realized right away that having too many feeds to read would be a bad thing.
At work this could definitely be helpful as I think of sites I tend to refer to frequently for information. At home I'll probably un-subscribe from a few e-mail newsletters and switch to the RSS feeds instead.
Libraries will undoubtedly find it helps their customers to have an RSS feed they can subscribe to. It's a technology people are beginning to expect to find available on a website.
So now that I'm signed up I'll be interested to find out if I actually find it useful -- or not.