Week 3, #6 : Flickr Fun

I played around with a few of the mashups (first I had to figure out what "mashups" meant -- could have saved myself stress by remembering to read the assignment for #6 before worrying about it during #5!). I had been reading other folks blogs and seeing the things they made with Spell with Flickr and the trading card maker so I tried the spelling one. I liked the fact that you could click on an individual letter in your word and get a new image for just that letter, giving you the ability to create just the effect you are looking for (if you have patience enough to click till it's just right!) Then I tried playing Sudoku. I agree with the person who blogged about that and said it would be cooler if you could do it with your own photos, but there does not seem to be a way. Unless you created some truly unique tag for your photos in Flickr and used that tag to select photos for the game...

Week 3, Thing 5 : explore Flickr

Well, I have been mucking about on Flickr a few times now. I browsed around the first time, searching for things by tags like "Vermont" and "libraries" and looking at the group created for this course. I admit to being a bit obsessive-compulsive (I mean, we all have to be, a bit, to keep everything organized in our libraries, right?) and right off the bat I noticed a photo with a Vermont tag that had an error in the caption. Of course I had to create a Flickr account right away so I could comment on the photo. Now let's see if I can link to the photo here in case you want to check it out. (BTW, the original poster did fix the caption!) OK, so I had issues with getting the photo to show up here, but I know enough html to at least adapt, so instead of a weird little empty box, you can click on words...