Pinterest

I joined Pinterest so I could easily snip ideas from web sites and blogs when I see a picture that inspires or gives me an idea.  I just wanted an easy way to grab ideas, quicker and more organized than the ideas tab at the top of this journal.

I discovered it is as addicting as everyone says.  I am constantly cruising pictures, getting a little reward every time I see a pretty photo, and every time someone re-pins what I put up.  It's like getting blog comments, only random and instantaneous and fleeting.

I can see what photos from my blogs are being pinned and who is grabbing them by going to pinterest.com/source/laurries.blogspot.com.  It's interesting to see what people have pulled off my blogs.

On another blog tech note, I tried to search this journal the other day for info on what allium bulbs I planted, but because my settings are private, it is not searchable.  The whole idea of keeping this journal online was so I could search for whatever I needed without having to remember what I called it or when I made note of it.

So. . . .

I can go back to using labels and make sure I am comprehensive about that so I can find what I tagged.  Not that efficient.

or, in order to search everything I've posted, I'll have to publish as a publicly viewed blog.

I can't simply turn that setting on and off just when I want to find something --- it takes days for google to re-cache and re-index my entries (even though the "search" gadget is looking for results only from this blog, it is actually accessing them through the whole dang world wide web).  So to use the search gadget, the blog has to be publicly out there for a good while.  Who knew?

I'm a little concerned about making this public because I have pulled photos without attributing them, thinking they were only for my personal journal use, and just for ideas.  Now Pinterest fills that need, and automatically attributes photos that are pinned, but there are still some here on my "private" blog that don't have a source.

And finally, another blog tech update --- I added pages to the top of my Plant Inventory blog  to show the evolution of each garden over time, and added all the new gardens we created last year.