Thing #11

Posting on technology. Where to start, where to stop. Everyday I learn something new about technology. I have really enjoyed learning the 23 things, however I wonder how much I should be using and what will be obsolete soon. Flickr is a fun tool to use to get my pictures all in one place but what happens when Flickr is gone. New technologies take the place of older ones everyday. I know that you are supposed to back up everything you do and not rely on one thing working all the time. Then I still have the same question. First I backed up to floppy disc, they are gone now. Then I backup to CD or DVD. Then I'm told to backup to flash drives. What is the new technology. Should I be backing up to online storage. What happens when that is gone. I have so many questions about the safety of where you store your files. I know that if there was a fire in my home all of my pictures would be gone anyway. I know I think way too much.

So I will post about fun things with technology that I have done so far. RSS feeds, WOW do I really like them. I am learning to get rid of the feeds that I don't really read and only keep the ones that have some value to me. When I first started with RSS every site I went to I would look for the little symbol that told me I could add this to my reader, you guessed it. click, click click another feed. So then I opened my reader up and 1,000 or more feeds, (way to many). So I asked myself, Is this important do you need to know this. If I answered no I would just get rid of it. Now I'm down to a little bit more manageable tool. Just as it was meant to be.

Back to flickr, I use Picasa and already have several thousand pictures loaded on Picasa, however I find I like flickr a little better. I wish I could find a way to transfer my pictures from Picasa to flickr. If not I will just continue to use Picasa. Famliy and friends are having fun looking at our Disneyland pictures and I now find myself taking more pictures then ever before. I really like the tagging feature so I can find pictures quickly and even if all of the pictures I want are in different folders I can still locate them by using tags. I would also like to link my Picasa pictures to my blog so I can get to everything from one site. I know that I should be able to I just need to look into it a little more. More technology for me to learn.

Well I think I carried on long enough. Like I said in the begining of this post. Where to start and where to stop. I really hope I don't have to stop and that with all of the new changes happening in technology I will not stop learning after the 23 things and continue until I learn as much as possible about these tools. I know that I keep saying learning about technology, however I really think this is the funnest time I have ever had learning something new.