Lulu Woo Woo!

  Another slow day at Tech Services means I can get even closer to completing L&P@CML, YAY!!  I started with Thing #18, looking at Web 2.0 tools/sites/whatever.  (I think half my difficulties with technology could be overcome if I could just remember the jargon!)  Many of the sites listed in the Winners list looked vaguely familiar, so maybe I’ve been working on Thing 18 before and lost those brain cells somewhere along the way (kind of like breadcrumbs–maybe I could follow them back to the clay tablets I used to use!). 

I tried looking at “Yelp” because I liked the name, but it was a great disappointment to me.  The opening page was so cluttered and 20-something that I didn’t go any further.  In fact I fled with my tail clamped tight for safety.  The “Books” catetgory seemed safer, so I checked out “Lulu.”  WOW.  Talk about opening a new world!  I have had photo books made for my own use on Kodak’s Easyshare site, but I never suspected that there were whole sites devoted to self-publishing actual books!  And adding to that the possibilities of putting it out on the Web for other people to order, getting profit from the sales, setting up a storefront, making your work available on Amazon and other sites . . . I feel my new career taking off!

Actually the first thing I’m going to do is pass this information on to several starving artist friends of mine who will be thrilled to get involved right away!  This seems like the book version of Etsy, or is Etsy the handcrafts version of Lulu?  The egg? The chicken?  How about the nest coming first, which is Web 2.0 in this case!

I think this may well be the most exciting Thing in Learn and Play for me.  Will I follow through?  Well, I will definitely explore more, comparing self-publishing sites and other Web 2.0 stuff, and for that I have L&P@CML to thank! 

Thanks!

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