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title: "Blogs n Dogs: Things I Didn’t Know Before Yesterday"
description: "A number of people asked me yesterday what I learned at the conference, and I had a hard time answering, not because I didn't learn anything but because the things I learned were a bunch of small..."
url: https://somisguided.com/2005/12/06/blogs-n-dogs-things-i-didnt-know-before-yesterday/
date: 2005-12-06
modified: 2005-12-06
author: "Monique"
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# Blogs n Dogs: Things I Didn’t Know Before Yesterday

A number of people asked me yesterday what I learned at the conference, and I had a hard time answering, not because I didn’t learn anything but because the things I learned were a bunch of small things rather than one large thing. Small things are sometimes harder to articulate. In some cases it wasn’t so much not knowing about a thing but being reminded of a thing I’d forgotten.

What I Learned on Day One:

1. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/blogsndogs/): A reminder that at the bottom of the page you can create an RSS feed for a tag.

2. (http://www.upcoming.org): Didn’t know about this cool event website and now I have to remember on Jan 20 to go to the podcasting meet-up at the Beatty St. Bar and Grill.

3. (http://www.last.fm): Didn’t know I could listen to all sorts of great music.

4. DLA: Digital Lifestyle Aggregator. Who makes up this stuff?

5. MySpace.com: (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=16709451&Mytoken=1551E54B-E56B-455C-9E1C0823ED186A60414331953).

6. I have invisibility powers and mind control. It’s true, ask (http://www.kriskrug.com).

7. (http://www.allconsuming.net): Appears to pull data from Amazon.com, clever idea for something else I’m working on.

8. Odeo.com and (http://www.audioblog.com): Knew about it before but got to see it in action.

9. (http://www.statcounter.com): Didn’t know about this great free tool.

10. (http://www.theworldisnotflat) should write for Lonely Planet. It’s true the world is not flat. And his user network for suggesting countries to visit is a very cool idea.

11. Will Pate. Need I say more? Ok, a bit more, his blog aggregates everything he writes anywhere on the web. I want that.

12. Vonage: Podcasting dealy-o with VoIP.

13. Blogroll with (http://www.bloglines.com): I knew I could do this, but I didn’t quite get why I’d want to use Bloglines to do it. Now, I understand. I can put the Bloglines blogroll on my blog and it will show all the public feeds I read.

14. (http://bakasynchronicity.blogspot.com/2005/11/stop-blocking-flickr-in-uae.html) thinks (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jackiepittigliani/) has cool photos on Flickr.com. Some I like.

15. I should (http://2006.northernvoice.ca/wiki/moose-camp) an idea I’m working on.

16. ~~ShoZoo. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/roland/)~~ Shozu. Roland has a Nokia with shozu and he can automatically upload photos to Flickr.

UPDATE: Shozu not ShoZoo. Shazam. Also my humble apologies. It is Roland not Ronald. I did that a couple of times in my head and thought I’d cured myself completely. Not the case. Roland Roland Roland down the dogsledding trail.

17. (http://www.yarnharlot.ca). Knit away my friend.

18. It is -26 C, which is 23 degrees different than Vancouver temperature right now, and 23 negative degrees more than I’m comfortable with.