iGoogle, though I nearly didn't and Things 4-6

The air went blue as I struggled with last week's  extension tasks and this week's challenges. A verification email went astray, so iGoogle was stonewalling me for sometime, but iGoogle page finally set up and running.  Definately slightly bemused by the choice of things available.  Lots of queries this week:-

1. How do I get an image off Flickr onto my blog?  Lovely articles about the importance of images and how to choose the best one Using images and Incredible-flickr-images  but assume you know how to copy/link/attribute, which I don't.  Anyone know a where I can find a "how-to" blog?
2. Which apps/features on an iGoogle page will prove useful and which are just time-sinks?  Think that uTube will fall into this latter category.
3. What is this Creative Commons license, how do I get and/or display one?
4. If I choose to follow anonymously, is the blogger aware of being followed, but not by whom?  Spooky or what, and is this cyber-stalking?
5. Why has someone from India viewed my blog?  Searching on Google for Alicia's 23 can get you to what appears to be a Swedish lonely hearts website (in so far as I can understand it, as it is all in, er Swedish) so maybe this was just in error.

 

Why blog?

Why do you blog? Is it for fun, vanity, exhibitionism or can you lay claim to sufficient quality to be teaching others, or just hide in the morrass that is personal development?

Maybe by the end of 23 Things I will know my own bias - here is the justification from an award-winning blogger, Steve Wheeler.

Learning with 'e's: Why do I bother?

  by  oedipusphinx — — — — theJWDban 

In the begining...

there was a blog, a somewhat tentative, wordy blog, with no pictures, colour or fancy bits, but hoping to get smarter later.

It was a first step towards trying new things, new web 2.0 things.  It was a chance to get up-to-date and become a generator of content, an opportunity to become more medially social.

It was going to be interesting, maybe even with work applications, the potential was there, just waiting.