Flickr

Have had a go at the optional activity of adding photos to Flickr. I hadn’t used it before, I have only ever put my photos up on Facebook. I decided to try it out as I really need to back up all my photos and only a few of my photos are on facebook.  Once I got past all the registering and setting up an account I downloaded a photo uploader tool to my desktop. I have a lot of digital photos so I will add them to Flickr in stages. I have uploaded all of my 2004 ones so far.
I quite like Flickr as you can decide who sees each picture, eg only you, only family, only friends, or anybody. I have created sets for my photos eg Crete 2004. I have added some tags eg butterfly. As I have a lot of retrospective tagging, I will only tag the public ones and the others will go into a relevant set.

Social bookmarking

I covered social bookmarking last year.  See my post http://karenaitken.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/week-5-social-bookmarking-and-tagging/

Over the last year, I did find myself adding items to del.icio.us when I was using Firefox browser.  I have never found the add-on to work properly when using Internet Explorer.  I didn’t use the imperial del.icio.us account at all.  I had another look at it and browsed some of the bookmarks relating to Flickr as that would be relevant to this weeks activities.

I plan to to upload my digital photos to Flickr and tag them.  I need to do this from home as that is where my photos are.