Blogger Gadget (i.e. "Widget") Flickr Photostream

I have added the Flickr Photostream at the bottom of my blog, and it is very attractive.
Maddeningly, my PC has settings that make it display images on webpages in "Internet Explorer". In "Firefox", images are mostly suppressed.
This means I need to switch to IE in order to see how the widget looks like on my blog.
I haven't been able to sort this out myself. Have tinkered with various settings, but to no avail.

Think Free Office

Have signed up to "Think Free Office" with my Google Mail account, and waited for the Java application to download. Some simple text manipulation, just to get this "Thing" out of the way.

I tried to insert an image of the "Think Free Office" document that I created, but since it is hosted on the web, I wasn't able to find it in the file search.

I used the "print screen" command and copied and pasted the image into Microsoft's "Paint", saved the file and inserted it here as an image, to prove that I did my "Thing".

There is probably a better way of doing this....
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I have also downloaded the "Free Power Tool", in order to be able to use "Think Free Office" offline.
Apparently, files get synchronized as soon as one logs back from offline mode into the online version of Think Free Office. That's rather clever, blackberryish.


As I am currently writing an article for a book, where I need to share information with other authors contributing to the same book, I find the idea of using "Think Free Office" very appealing. And it saves me from keeping track of the latest file versions by USB memory stick.
While I am ploughing on with the last "Things", I am uploading the files for thei project to the "Think Free Power Tool". The default setting is for synchronization every 20 minutes.
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No time for additional tasks.

Galloping on to the last 3 Things.

Creating a Google document

I wrote "https://docs.google.com" in the browser line and got into "Google docs" without having to go through the log-in process. This means that logging onto "Blogger" automatically logs one into "Google docs", with one's Google Mail settings. This is rather eerie and big-brotherish.

Have sent a link to the 23 Things email address, allowing them to "share" the document, but not to make alterations.

My internet access is very sluggish today and I don't know if "Google docs" is affected by it - but there was definitely a delay between keying in words and seeing them on screen.

Wikipedia

Have now read the entry about the history of Wikipedia, and learned by following a link, that the oldest and largest encyclopedia ever achieved was the Chinese Yongle encyclopedia.

I have accessed a biographical article about Salman Schocken, fa person I know much about from my own research, both in the German and in the English version of Wikipedia.
In the German article, I have chosen to improve information in 2 sentences.
The English article is so badly written that it would take me far too much time to edit and improve it. The links are biased and not good (or broken), and I can tell from the content who has written the article.

Gateway to library

I have logged on to the Oxford Web 2.0 Wiki with my (existing) Wetpaint login details.

Our library hasn't created any Web 2.0 tools yet.
But I have in the past contributed some bookmarks I found useful during the cataloguing of antiquarian books in Hebrew characters to "Cataloger's Desktop". This is a cataloguer's toolbox managed and marketed by the Library of Congress. It is similar to bookmark-sharing on Web 2.0 interfaces such as "Delicious", but access to CD is restricted to holders of paid-up accounts.


After reading through some of the library postings, I wrote a thread to James Fishwick's info on the OIL (Oriental Institute Library).

After posting the thread, I "tweeted" it on Twitter.

Retweeting

Have managed to "retweet" to my (one and only) follower.
On to the next "Thing"

Challenging

Using Twitter is quite a challenge.
I have written a bit of profile information and couldn't decide whether to restrict use or not.
I am not too keen that too much stuff about me floats about on the web.
Will probably remove some of the accounts that I have opened during the exercise.
I now understand what twitter is about, which is good, I don't manage to follow Emma's instructions on the 23 Things blog.
I don't seem able to do "retweet", and I cannot get rid of the irritating "trending" element on my Twitter profile.
But I have seen that other Twitter users *have* got rid of it.

Deadline looming

Just got back from Easter holiday. Don't know whether I will make it by tomorrow's deadline.

I have just written my first "Tweet" and have chosen 2 people to "follow".

Have looked at some of the librarian blogs suggested by the 23 Things team (http://tweepml.org/100-British-Librarians-on-Twitter and http://wefollow.com/twitter/librarian)