Monday, September 29, 2008

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Week 6: Get social

12. Explore MySpace and Facebook

Had a look at the dinky little vid on social networking. Didn't really tell me much.

Liked Alexa's site which gave me a quick and dirty on all of the fav. social networking sites.

Have had a look at some of the ways libraries are using Myspace. An exmple is "Libraries on Myspace".

Have set up my facebook account, but was a bit paranoid about giving my info away, so just corresponded with a few cousins and added them as friends. Got a bit lost with doing all the privacy settings stuff, but tried to follow Jenny Cameron's info sheet. Some options have changed since her document has been written.

Seems like a great way to share information in a pretty informal sort of way, for example in the link below under the "Forum" heading is a link : "Anyone know about Scratch?" (a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. Probably is more useful for public library clients, but never say never!

Seems like US libraries are way ahead of Oz libraries in utilizing Myspace.

I love the Meredith Farkas' blog. She seems to have a finger in every Web 2.0 pie, and she even has a RSS feed available!

http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2006/05/10/libraries-in-social-networking-software/

http://scratch.mit.edu/about

http://groups.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=groups.groupProfile&groupID=102987824

Week 5: RSS feeds and blogs

11. Subscribe to some blogs


Looked at Technorati and searched for Libraries plus ebooks. There are not a lot of specific categores listed in the index, but I have found some intersting sites, inc. some "gadget" sites. The "bogs" tab is a good idea.

Subscribed to CenterNetworks a Web 2.0 site.

Have also subscribed to Google Librarian, and Engadget.

Found a pretty neat YouTube video on finding free ebooks via one of the blogs listed on Technorati.

Have added ilibrarian to my list. Found an interesting article about "on demand books" plus virtual meeting rooms via Vroom.

The possibilities are endless, and I could spend all day on this stuff! I think RSS feeds are a fantastic way of having the "universe in my PC".


http://www.elluminate.com/vroom/index.jsp

http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/category/services/

http://www.ondemandbooks.com/hardware.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKiMkr2R0ZA

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Week 5: RSS feeds and blogs

10. Add some subscriptions

Have managed to add some subscriptions to my reader, but found that just pasting the url worked just as well as clicking on the little "XML" or other icons.

What a pity some of my favourite personal sites don't offer a "RSS feed" possibility.

There seems to be a lot of crap in Digg, along with some good stuff.

Have added Digg, Herald Sun - news, Google Librarian, VU Catalogue, my own blog and 23 Things, Engadget (suggested by Bart at EISCC Forum) and Crikey.com to my subscription list.

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Week 5: RSS feeds and blogs

9. Set up a feed reader

Watched the RSS video and listened to Andy Wibbles tell me about Google reader. Sort of followed his advice, but might need to listen to the instructions again!

Will be able to use RSS feeds to help me keep up to date with new information in fields of interest, both work related and personal.


Have wondered what "Atom" was at the end of my blog!