Things 8 and 9

Thing 8: Flickr
As you could probably already tell by the lovely attatched photos, I set up the flickr account as directed by the 23 things.  I tagged the photos and linked the blog, posted photos to the blog, set up the groups, tagged the photos, geotagged the photos, and bookmarked them with delicious, etc.  Just thinking about the amount of metadata I have just created and cast upon the web makes the heart race.  I also, as instructed, explored the flickr groups, and joined several of the library groups which were full of beautiful pictures of libraries and books and the memory of card catalogs. 
I also explored several of the other photo-sharing sites, a few of which I use for sharing photos of my children with family and friends.

Thing 9
The 9th activity includes "playing" with flickr...making a color montage to match your mood, making a map of photos, creating a mosaic of photos, and creating a slide show with one of your photos...see above. I could have done without the super poke pets around it, but this is what it is. I made the mosaic as well, and generally just played around on all the links provided. Good fun. The mosaic would be useful for book covers, perhaps, when doing blog lists or reviews. Lots to learn.