Photo Sharing

I looked at Flickr; it might be worth getting an account. I liked a couple of the features, such as the ability to map your vacation photos and to create galleries. I have used Flickr Commons before; it's a great source of photos. I already had a Picasa account, so I put up a small album of photos I took at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I had no difficulty uploading the photos from iPhoto, but it seemed trickier to upload them directly from Picasa. I did succeed in doing one that way. I also added some descriptive captions. I study American cultural history and these photos illustrate some of the material culture of the nineteenth century, specifically in terms of household furnishings.

Where I did run into problems is with having too many different mail accounts that are Google. Because I started in Picasa Web on my gmail and then switched to my Fredonia account to do the blog, I lost the Picasa. Don't really understand why it cannot all be linked, since it's all Google! Since I cannot open both Google mail accounts in the same browser, it means I cannot upload the album, since I seem to not have access to my other Picasa web account from the Fredonia email. This is just one of my many frustrating encounters with the Web 2.0.

So I think I got this. I had to download the album to Picasa, sign into Picasa from my Fredonia account, then upload the album to THAT Picasa web album. Then follow the steps to embed the slide show. Fingers crossed that it works. Rather too complicated, if you ask me; I thought Web 2.0 was supposed to simplify life!

Okay, after three attempts to embed the slideshow, following the instructions link on TOEP, I failed miserably. So I have put a link below the slideshow instead. Also tried to insert a photo by clicking on the "insert image" but it told me that it was not available! Again, way too much trouble!!!

Okay, I figured out how to do it after embedding the video. Either the instructions on the photo sharing left out the crucial step of having to embed the code in HTML mode, or I missed it. The instructions on the video TOEP did include that step. Yeeha. The Met slide show if you please: