del.icio.us

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

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

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

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

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

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

My Google Reader page has a Photography Group subscription