Activity 14: Technorati

I will useTechnorati for finding blogs on certain topics. Doing search on "Learning 2.0" in Posts, I got more matches than in Blogs. Recognised one of the blogs listed there as one created by someone from Greater Dandenong. Congratulations, Virgo Blue, on making it big!
WebMarshall warned me "Your attempt to access this site has been recorded" when I tried to access Technorati's Topic listing. Let me through the first search "Entertainment", then I clicked on the next one "Technology" and got the message "Blocked by the rule 'Block pornography'!!!!!!!!!!!

Activity 13: Social bookmarking with Delicious

With Delicious, you can bookmark specific web pages and add tags to categorize what you have bookmarked so you can easily retrieve the pages at a later time. It also allows you to share your bookmarks through tagging, hence the term "social bookmarking". This way, searching by tags shows results from other delicious accounts so you discover other websites of similar ilk.
I think it's more useful than Rollyo because it's more specific.

Activity 12: Rollyo

Rollyo is a great idea and I wished I had more time to explore. Did a quick searchroll and then couldn't find a way link to my blog except by copying and pasteing the url.
http://rollyo.com/imogenesword/ikebana/

Activity 11 LibraryThing

Great cataloguing tool using records already created by others and then adding tags (my own subject classifcations) which will allow me to retrieve my records easily.
Managed to get the link established with my blog but only 2 titles came up when I actually had 6 books catalogued. The 2 titles are the ones with covers.

Activity 10: Image generator

Found this very pretty one by Royal Delft which allowed me to become an instant china painter of a blue and white plate with border and field and text. Unfortunately I was unable to copy and paste the image to this blog so you have to explore for yourself via this link http://www.royaldelft.com/index.cfm?

Activity 9 Finding feeds

Explored search tools to help me find feeds:
Topix.net was great for news, especially on the old country (Singapore) which don't make the news here in Oz.
Feedster allowed me to cast the net wide for news, blogs & podcasts but it could be I was stuck in a loop. No matter what I "radiobuttoned" (all feeds/blogs/podcasts) I got the same matches.
Had trouble with Technorati. My search term "shiwan" and then "ikebana"resulted in Access blocked by the rule "Block pornography" !!!!!!
In comparison, Google Blog search was user friendly and gave me lots of interesting and useful feeds on ikebana.

Activity 8: RSS feeds

RSS feeds is a useful tool for getting updated information on topics that interest me in a succinct manner : http://www.bloglines.com/public/imogenesword