23 Things and Flickr

Flickr is a wild and wonderful place to play. I often come across very interesting pictures there. Mind you there is also considerably more dross. Still I am an avid collector of images for the purpose of inspiration. From many sources I have emassed a wonderful collection and I’d like to direct your attention to the Typography tag and I invite you to explore the pictures using this tag. Some pretty amazing stuff I am sure you will agree. Pages and pages of the stuff – 118,000 + entries. I could happily spend hours just looking. I subscribe to several feeds that are nothing more than uploads of peoples drawings. Just yummy.

Which brings me to The Dictionary Of Image. Go have a look.

23 Things catchup

Well, here I am, I managed to score a whole bunch of elephant stamps for my last post, so let’s see what we can do this time. I’ve had a look at iGoogle for the first time today and while I use Google mail and Google maps (wonderful tool) and Google Picasa and lots of ther tools – iGoogle is not one that is of any interest to me.

I can see where it might be useful for people but my default webpage is to my server at home which includes a calendar and diary that I share with my husband. If I were usinf Web 2 for the very first time and neede to familiarise myself with the tools – it would be a good place to start.

A suggested question from the list of 23 Things is whether I would like to work for Google. Well hell yes, who wouldn’t? So are you listening Google? I’d love to work for you. I don’t neccessarily like or use all of your products but I’m sure I’d help you make them better.

Point by point then:
Your Gmail account – I have several for various purposes.
Headlines from Google News and other news sources – um I barely have time to read the RSS feads that I subscribe to, not to mention the news articles that my personal news feed, my husband, sends me.
Weather forecasts, stock quotes, and movie showtimes uh huh, well no I use Bureau of Met for weather and as for the rest – well ….
Bookmarks for quick access to your favorite sites from any computer This is mucho useful and probably the only reason why I would use this service.
Your own section with content you find from across the web, and that’s why I have a few blogs – I don’t need another one right now thanks.
Google Book Search another resource that could be useful.

Finally I have a clock and calendar right on my desktop toolbar, I’m not sure why I need another. In short great for an entry level user without any other options.