Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Flickr

Flickr (is that how it's spelled? There is definitely a missing letter. What is the fashion for deliberate misspelling anyway? It's so much more time consuming to remember the wrong way than just to do it rght---joke.)
Anyway, Flickr has real potential. I plan to post Teddy's prom pictures for the world to enjoy.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Thing Number 3

Continuing at my own glacial pace, I have finally acquired an RSS feed site (is that the proper title?) and have stocked it with the minimum three required feeds--only one of which is new. As for the others--aldaily.com and NPR's Talk of the Nation---am I more likely to look at them now that there is an additional mediating layer of electronic 'stuff' between me and their content? I'm already overstimulated by the array of information inexorably bearing down on me.
What would my namesake, Henry James' inquiring journalist Henrietta, have made of all this? She thought of herself as a modernist but was much less successful at the enterprise than she supposed. (That's why I gave my blog her name.) Would she have enthusiastically embraced technology, but made a hash of it? Is this a fit topic for online speculation?
Well, on to the next technological summit to be scaled.