Showing posts with label web generators. Show all posts
Showing posts with label web generators. Show all posts

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Falling of the wagon (also known as the book mobile)



I almost fell of the VT's 23 things wagon! Almost... not quite.
Then - through the wonders of modern technology I received an email in my 'in box' informing me of 2 other participants still hanging in there!
I was saved! I am back on the wagon!

All due to that one message: 'YOU'VE GOT MAIL!'

This week was dedicated to web generators.

Unfortunately I found the Ben & Jerry's web generator and got lost in flavor land.
Next, I found out the drawback of 'the buck stops here...' Apparently even generous B&J's stops their benevolence at sharing their (fun) artwork. In other words, corporate America (yes even those that start in backyard garages) do not want to play and share: You can play with their images, you can even send them to other people, and share on social networking sites, but you may not save them on your lovely computer.

I am thinking there are many computer savvy people out there who can figure out ways around this, but for those of us who like to just 'click and paste' this is a serious waste of time.
All that fun designing labels and flavors for hours on end - and then - NOTHING: no jpeg., no doc., no nothing....

I did manage to somehow get the picture transported to a word doc, but now have to figure out how to manipulate it from there. Maybe I should look at this as a gift from B&J: yet another opportunity/motivator/challenge to dive deeper into techno world.
So - whilst the world is waiting for the pictorial rendition of my B&J's flavor
LIBRARY LIBATIONS
(with lots of caffeine products of course!)
I will take this opportunity to clarify which of the 23 things occur in which of my blog postings.
I have taken the liberty to write some (opinionated) entries between the WEB2.0 articles, so this list should make it easier to find my ideas on the first 6 things!
blog posting: Continued education, day 1 thing: Blogging
blog posting: Week 2, 7 1/2 habits thing: comments on 7 1/2 habits

blog posting: From Flickr to Fall thing: Flickr
blog posting: Young Adult Fiction thing: Webinars (not one of 23 things but web2.0!)
blog posting: The Beauty of Banned books thing: RSS Feeds
blog posting: A Library's Social Network thing: Facebook
blog posting: Falling of the wagon thing: Web generators
Oh - and I did fall of the wagon: the ice cream wagon - despite my ravings -
a good helping of Cherry Garcia never hurt anyone! (especially not me!)
so thanks B&J, for web generators, motivation/challenges, and great tasting ice cream!