Showing posts with label Blogger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogger. Show all posts

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Podcasts - Thing 21

When I first got iTunes several years ago I explored podcasts, but never really did much with them. Finding out I can add NPR podcasts to my blog was really neat because now I don't have to keep going from program to program ... it's all right here.

I gotta get a picture of the Nancy Pearl action figure to go with her book review podcasts.

Today I had one of those duh moments until I finally had an aha moment. I searched and searched the net for a way to add a podcast device to my blog. Finally I looked in Blogger gadgets and there it was.

It will be fun to keep up the book reviews on a daily basis.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Technorati - Thing 14



Shallow Thoughts by Sherrie has been claimed on Technorati and it ranks 4,758,329. Woo-hoo!

If I ever have anything deep to say the blog will be the place.

It's taken me a bit to get used to adding the tags/labels at the bottom of the posts, but it's really easy to do with Blogger. Technorati is pretty easy to navigate and it uses your Google ID. Like a lot of other sites it allows you to add a profile, a photo of yourself and a biography. If you're blogging aboug quantum physics you might want to include your PhD in subject. ;)

I searched the blog posts for "Learning 2.0" and got 397 returns. That's not too bad considering a Google search would have resulted in thousands. When I searched the tags I got 174 items ... better still. The directory has a Web 2.0 folder under Technology but you have to slog through too many blogs for this to be that useful.