Discoveries this week -

Two new search engines:
searchme.com Check it out by searching for your name in quotes
Cuil claims to be "bigger, faster, and better" than Google's search engine - indexing 120 billion pages, 40 billion more than Google. See article


Great list of Web 2.0 tools can be found at Go2Web20
List of Webware 2008 Winners

15 Useful Widgets and Scripts for Blogger

Class Timer
Animoto - Create a movie trailer with your pictures Time with the Zepeda's

Play Week

Some sites to check out next week

Cool Text Graphics Generators Generator Blog - "Blog about software that creates software" FD's Flickr Toys - "Producers of fine toys and amusements for your digital photographs"

Flickr Mashups- Spell with Flickr -Trading Card Maker - Flickr Sukoko Also see list at Flickr Tools and Flickr Bits

del.icio.us

Be sure to check out Worlde next week!

RSS Feeds

I have used Bloglines for a number of years and just recently switched to Google Reader. I think that RSS Readers are great, but my problem is that I forget to look at my feeds. So by the time I think of it I have hundreds of posts to look at and then I get discouraged and don't.

What is the solution? I need to select one or two blogs that I want to keep up with and ditch the rest. I can only take in so much information.... what will the two blogs be? Still working on that.

One great use of Google Reader is that I have created a feed to the blogs of my students. Instead of going to each one of their blogs and trying to find what's new -- I can go to my reader and the new posts are listed for me. This has tremendous use in Education.

I went through the short tutorial by Solinet called "Feed Me". I learned that you can have feeds sent to your cell phone -- not surprising, but really do I want my feeds to follow me every where I go?

Blogs I plan to focus on: What I Learned Today & Information Wants to be Free. I meet the authors of both of these blogs at ACL.

Flickr

Purple & Yellow Flowers
Originally uploaded by shaire productions

I have just created a direct link to this blog from Flickr. I don't have any of my personal pictures on Flickr so am uploading someone else's picture after checking the copyright. This one is has the Creative Commons "Some Rights Reserved" which means I can share and remix, but I need to give attribution to the people who took this picture. I noticed that Flickr provided the attribution.

This is really cool -- to be able to directly link from Flickr to my blogs. I'm sad that there are so many things to learn, and so little time to do so. But things will not slow down just because I can't keep up. The goal is to keep learning ....

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.