Thursday, February 15, 2007

Using Flickr (Week 3, Exercise 5)

Okay, so I have finally started using Flickr and uploading my own photographs for public view. Interestingly enough, I really started using it because MySpace does not accept pictures over 600KB and most of mine are over 1M. MySpace has been an excellent place for me to interact with my siblings using multimedia, from photographs to videos to audio tracts. (I look forward to recording podcasts... heeheehee). Anyway...

Annoying Flickr traits:

-I can't seem to go back and add descriptions, titles, or tags after I save the picture.
-I'm still not sure about the whole privacy thing (leading me to not actually state anyone's name in my descriptions).
-The Creative Commons is not the most intuitive thing to use (where do we find the citation info?), which leads me to...
-A long list of instructions and FAQs to figure the bloody thing out.

Sunday, February 4, 2007

Week 3

I've been waiting patiently for my first glimpse of true library excitement. For drunk people on bicycles, thieves getting tackled, chases, anything. Our library security, however, are completely on top of every commotion and difficult situation. Heck, at this point I would love to hear gun shots and see blood spreading slowly across the linoleum.

But I have been left unsatisfied. Nothing ever happens when I am at work... until today!

I received the wonderful opportunity to witness an arrest. Well, to be perfectly honest, I got to see, at a distance, library security walk someone out of the building in handcuffs. No blood, no chases, no gun shots. It was all done every quietly, and I probably would not have noticed if I hadn't looked up at just the right moment.

Though there was that one time where these two guys started fighting, now that I think about it. That was pretty interesting... but more on that later.