I have been doing lots of social networking through Spotify. It is almost perfect. And the collaborative playlists are loads of fun. Music on tap. Just the way I like it.
Sadly, tried to use it in school today and, of course, it was blocked. Go figure. A shame; I was looking forward to investigating some interesting class collaborations in mixtapes.
Flickr is also suddenly blocked this term. Which makes the Creative Commons image search completely useless now. Going, going gone.
Fortunately, my stage clever stage partner shared a clever way to bypass the the filter on Google images.
Put something like 'Scotland' and the word 'photo' or 'image' into a normal Google search engine. Some photos will appear along the top of the search results. Click on an image. Along the top it reads 'back to image results.' Click on that and suddenly you are in the Google image search engine proper. Put whatever you want to search for in the search engine and off you go. Nice!
