Flickr

I've played around with Flickr before, it's a great place to store photographs without taking up all your harddrive space, and also an easy way to share them, or publish to other places (like my blog!).

I didn't make my own account, I used the Manukau Learn one. I decided to look for photos of my soon-to-be hometown. I've embedded a few here.

This one is on Santa Ana Valley Road, This photographer takes beautiful pictures, the lighting is fantastic. He has a whole album full of pictures from the county and they're all just as lovely.

This one is a picture of the Methodist church that is in the middle of the township.

Rollyo

I made a search roll and put a searcbox widget in my sidebar.

While it's a nifty idea I have to admit that I'm unlikely to use it, and will most likely keep up my habit of using google for everything (bad, I know).

I think that rollyo could be a useful as a teaching aide. You could teach people how to use keywords to search, while ensuring that the sites they search are on topic. This will give them a greater chance of success, less chance of spam, and perhaps cement the basic concepts for searching before they venture out into the mish-mash that search engines often produce.