Cant Court

Web 3.0

2008-07-14T13:39:00.002+10:00

Reading about this certainly makes more sense now than it did when I read about Web 2.0!! However, I won't really get my head around it fully until it is incorporated into things I have to do - then I'm sure I won't have any trouble picking it up.

Voyage - RSS

2008-07-09T14:08:00.002+10:00

I've had a bit of a play with this - however, I can't see myself really using it. If you subscribed to a lot of feeds it does look as though it would be good.

Kartoo

2008-07-09T13:47:00.002+10:00

Playing with this site was fairly interesting but somewhat frustrating. I became quite irritated by having to go back to the front page all the time to go to another site. As a comparison, I then tried the same search term in Google images and got all the same items, but in a format that I could scroll through & select if it looked like the sort I was interested in - I didn't have to go to all the different websites. I won't be going back to this!

Vufind

2008-07-08T14:28:00.002+10:00

I've had an extremely interesting time using NLAs new Vufind catalogue. The ease of use and range of information available within the one site is great - this definitely has to be a glimpse of the future!

23 + 5 LinkedIn

2008-07-07T16:30:00.003+10:00

I've joined & set up my profile & sent out some invites. I don't know that I'll have a lot of use for this site, but I can certainly see its potential.

Final Comments

2008-03-04T15:05:00.002+11:00

I've really enjoyed most of the 23 things. It's been a very interesting exercise learning about the different things that can be done, although I probably won't use quite a few of the things. It 's certainly a good feeling having reached the end, mainly because finding the time to do it has been something of an issue.

Pets on Library Wiki

2008-03-04T15:03:00.002+11:00

I've managed to load 2 images of our cats, Brady and Zoe on to the Wiki - very easy once I knew what had to be done!

Second Life

2008-02-14T15:43:00.003+11:00

Wrote the heading & then forgot to do the post!!

I'm afraid Second Life is something of which I can appreciate the technology & the results, but I cannot for the life of me see any benefit or point to actually getting involved. At the risk of sounding like an "old fogey", if libraries can't deliver their services to clients in the REAL world, face to face and aided by various technologies, then our whole society has some major problems!

Podcasts (Task 21)

2008-02-14T14:56:00.002+11:00

Podcasts are something that I have been aware of for a long time, but hadn't made the effort to investigate. I like the fact that you have the flexibility of being able to listen to things of interest without being tied, for example to a radio station's scheduling, which won't always enable you to hear the item. I've been enjoying dipping into a variety of topics for which I've found podcasts .

YouTube & Second Life (Tasks 20 & 22)

2008-02-14T14:46:00.002+11:00

While it is amazing seeing some of the stuff on YouTube, I can't see that I will be spending much time going back to it. It's good knowing a bit about how it works, but I would only go back to it if I REALLY wanted to find out something that I really couldn't find anywhere else - and then I would be wondering just how worthwhile the information was.

Library 2.0 Movement

2008-02-13T09:20:00.000+11:00

The scope of the Library 2.0 movement seems to be huge! While I am finding some of the reading material quite fascinating, there is so much to get your head around that I feel that I am going to have to keep coming back to be able to digest it. At the moment I'm not sure exactly how much of it is directly relevant to me, however I can see that it will become more and more part of the daily fabric of libraries generally, and university libraries in particular, and as such will be interesting, exciting and challenging to be a part of!

del.icio.us

2008-01-03T14:46:00.000+11:00

I've been exploring this site & finding it quite interesting. However, I didn't intend joining it as I felt I had more than enough different things going to keep me busy for a long time - that was until I found some REALLY interesting quilting & patchwork sites!! They have now been saved so that I can go back and have a better look at them.

iGoogle Page

2007-12-03T16:12:00.000+11:00

I've been having a very interesting time investigating the myriad of iGoogle things that can be set up on my own page. So far, I have 3 pages, with plans for several more - no doubt many of the items will be discarded in time after I've had some fun 'playing' with them!!

Google maps, Google Docs & Google Book Search

2007-11-22T14:08:00.000+11:00

I've had a bit of a play with the various items in Google Docs, but I can't see myself having a lot of use for them. Having said that, I can see that they could be useful if you needed to do something when you were away from home, eg travelling, but I wouldn't use it by choice when I had the full programs available as they are quite basic.

Google Books has kept me enthralled for a couple of hours, although I'm not sure that I'd use it all that much. It's quite fascinating dipping into some of the very old books & getting an idea of the language used & how much it has changed. I could possibly be tempted at times to use it to sample a book to see whether I really want to read it.

Flickr Group link

2007-11-22T10:17:00.000+11:00

I've joined the Artistic Photography group, which I thought could be accessed from my Flickr account page - I was wrong! At this stage, the images in it are also in my general page. Once you get to the Group page, click on "(number) Members" just below Group heading and then look for Rinny-Kaye.

MySpace and Facebook

2007-11-21T15:26:00.000+11:00

I've spent the last couple of days looking at MySpace and Facebook, but I can't say that I've seen anything that particularly makes me want to get really involved. It seems to me that what I've done so far on my blog and the various library subscriptions there is simply being duplicated on these sites. The only thing that has been interesting has been looking at my nieces & nephews & I haven't really been tempted even then to comment on their 'walls'. The generation gap was rather obvious!

Digg and Library subsciption

2007-11-20T11:58:00.000+11:00

I don't know whether I'm just showing my age, but I've had a look at digg.com & quite frankly, I wouldn't waste my time going back! It's on my Google Reader, but it probably won't stay there for long. I've also added an Australian Libraries group that does seem to have a lot of interesting articles - I can see myself browsing through that quite regularly.

Google Reader

2007-11-19T16:44:00.000+11:00

My Google Reader page has a Photography Group subscription

Feed links

2007-11-19T16:32:00.001+11:00

I'm attempting to link some blogs I've subscribed to - although I'm not totally sure of exactly what I'm doing! Homesite is another blog that I've subscribed to.

LibraryThing

2007-11-19T13:47:00.000+11:00

I've been having a lovely time investigating LibraryThing. I can see my sisters & I, as well as a number of friends, getting a great borrowing system going with this.

Flickr link

2007-11-18T15:52:00.000+11:00

My Flickr page link - enjoy having a squiz at my photos!

Week 4 - Image Generator

2007-11-15T14:40:00.000+11:00

This is fun - although I'm not sure how much use I'd really get out of it. Could be fun for the grandkids when they're a little older!

Flickr post

2007-11-15T10:38:00.000+11:00

I have just posted my first 3 photos into Flickr - images taken on a trip to Broken Hill in 2004. I'm still trying to work out how to get them into a patricular group.

Photo post

2007-11-15T10:17:00.000+11:00

I have just succeeded in posting a photo from my computer - hopefully this whole process gets quicker with practise!

2007-11-15T10:14:00.000+11:00

Weeks 2 & 3

2007-11-13T12:57:00.000+11:00

After a lot of messing about figuring out exactly what is required (not necessarily what I thought from prior experience!) I have finally got the hang of this blogging thing!! I have set up my own, added a comment to someone else's blog and will look into flickr when I have my next session.

Personal Info

2007-11-12T16:12:00.000+11:00

My family includes my husband Lynton, daughter Mirrin and son Nathan. Nathan & his wife Laura have 3 beautiful children, Amity (almost 4), Kobi (2) & Joss (8 mths). My interests include reading, handcrafts, esp. patchwork & knitting and classical music. We have 2 cats - Brady, a black& white, stumpy-tail manx and Zoe, a long-haired tortoise-shell and 2 dogs - Ebony (Ebby for short), a stffy cross and Kaleb, a kelpie cross.