photoblogging

This photo was taken near my office and is part of an ongoing series documenting discarded chairs that I’ve come across on the streets of Glasgow.  It has absolutely nothing to do with my work here at the Uni – its really just a test to find out about posting photo’s from flickr.  Seems to work better than posting directly into wordpress and it doesn’t seem to use up any of your wordpress memory allocation.

If you’re interested click on the photo and this will take you to my flickr account – where there are a few other discarded chairs.

I’m testing this because I’m hoping to set up a Student Network/Glasgow Uni photoblog project next semester but also, Tatiana (who is doing our PG blog using wordpress) has been experiencing quite a few problems when uploading photo’s into wordpress and I wanted to try and sort this out.

So, the first thing to do is open a flickr account and upload your photo’s (though you do have a 20mb monthly upload limit!).  Once you’ve done this follow these instructions which I’ve pasted from the worpress FAQ section.

1. Sign up for a Flickr account
2. Log on to flickr.com and go to Your Account
3. Under the Blogging heading, click Your Blogs
4. Click Set up a new blog
5. Select WordPress blog and click Next
6. Enter the API endpoint:
   http://yourblogname.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php
7. Enter your WordPress.com login and password and click Next
8. Finish the form (it may have been changed)
9. When you want to blog a photo, look for the Blog This button right above it (you may have to click the photo first to make the buttons appear above it)
10. In the popup, click your blog’s name and finish the form that appears.

Before you post its worth choosing a layout option – you should see this option after you’ve set everything up. 

You can also post with text, or add the text once it’s in your blog.

What to do over Christmas and New Year?

With the Christmas holidays fast approaching the University of Glasgow and the SRC have put together a ‘Vacation Activities’ website (hosted by the SRC), with information on what’s going in Glasgow and beyond during the holiday period. 

If you’re sticking around over the Christmas holidays and you’re wondering what to do you can find it on http://www.glasgowstudent.net/events/vacation/. 

You’ll also find some useful suggestions made by current students, on what’s good to do over the holidays, published on our very own website – http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/studentnetwork/frequentlyaskedquestions/.

How to work better

The following 10 Points were written by Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss.  I came across it when I went to see their retrospective exhibition at Tate Modern in November this year.  For those of you unfamiliar with their work they are probably most famous for their video work The Way Things Go, which inspired a recent Honda advert.   Anywa, the 10 points are listed below.

1. Do one thing at a time

2. Know the problem

3. Learn to listen

4. Lean to ask questions

5. Distinguish sense from nonsense

6. Accept change as inevitable

7. Admit mistakes

8. say it simple

9. Be calm

10. Smile

Network blogs

So we’ve finally managed to get two blogs up and running today, both of them are accessible via the links under our blogroll.  ‘Glasgow Reflections’ is by a current Postgraduate student and ‘Undergrad life’ is by, you guessed it, a current undergrad student.  The aim is to give you, the reader a greater insight into what life is like here, at Glasgow, as a student.  Anyway, do check them out and please leave a comment. 

The Student Network itself is a University of Glasgow service that puts prospective, new and current students in touch with more experienced students, who have completed their first year of study.  You can find out everything you need to know about us on the website – www.gla.ac.uk/studentnetwork – so I’ll not go into too much detail here.

I’m not sure how this blog is going to be used, probably just start posting information I think is relevant to current and prospective students.