14 Technorati

Well... er what can we say? Technorati is probably cool for those who like to blog and search for and read other people's blogs but quite frankly we found it a very boring looking site. We get the concept but really there's got to be better things to do than search for blogs!We have had fun with a lot of the learning 2.0 exercises up until now but Technorati is not for us.

13 Tagging and del.icio.us

We can see real uses for this, one of the best being able to access our favourite websites on any computer. Also great for finding new sites tagged by others with the same interests as us - whether it be hobby or research related. We particularly liked the Discovery resource Social Bookmarking in Plain English - it was a very useful but simple visual explanation of del.icio.us.

12 Rollyo

Well we think we have mastered Rollyo and do see that this could be quite useful to have a search engine comprised of a very specific set of sites which cover one's area of interest. We have created a search engine to help us look for our next Villa stay in Italy - not only are we well read mice but well travelled too.
Adding sites to make the search engine in Rollyo was pretty easy but we were glad to have the instructions on how to add our searchroll to our blog, otherwise we would have been stumped!

11 Library Thing

We really liked this one - gave us a chance to catalogue some of our favourite reads (well read for mice, I hear you say?). Particularly like the Suggestions feature and will use it to find similar books which may appeal. You can find our library at: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/suesa

10 Image generators

This is more like it - we definitely see how we could be creative and have some fun playing with images. As we are very pressed for time we'll leave the fancy stuff for later and make do with this indulgence. You can whip up your own at

http://www.glassgiant.com/chocolate_bar/

8 & 9 RSS Feeds

Well it's been awhile since our last post but life has been busy. Finally got around to playing with RSS feeds and OK it's easy enough to do once you create a Bloglines account. It obviously has its uses for those who like to be glued to their computers but frankly I think we'd end up 'marking as read' most of the info just to clear it out! Did have trouble trying to add photo pages from Flickr. One of the training modules did explain how to do it but It didn't work for us - this is where frustration sets in and we decide that it's easier to remain simple mice rather than technorodents. Had to get help to show the list of feeds on our blog - wasn't a simple process.

Here we are, Ruby on the left and Phoebe on the right.
And putting this photo on the net would not have been possible without the digital camera - a wonderful invention. We were a little slow on the uptake at first and needed some convincing that a digital camera was the way to go, but now there's no stopping us! There's no limit to the number of photos we can take of ourselves, and if there is the odd dodgy one (most unlikely, given the subjects), one click and it's gone!