I have a wee look at Auckland City Libraries Bebo page (am a bit anti Bebo because of all the angst the kids have given us here in the library with Bebo in the past!) Seems a bit juvenile to me.
Looked at Myspace - learnt that you can use it like a dating service (!!) searching for people who fit certain "specifications" like dating sites do. News to me. Otherwise pretty similar to other social networking sites.
My favourite is Facebook mainly because I have my own profile on it and have had heaps of fun for a couple of years with it. This week I added the Books I Read application, kind of like LibraryThing and sent a hilarious video to 3 friends.
Only frustration with Facebook is I can't search for people using my email address because it doesn't support searches using xtra.
Hennepin County Library - good idea having link to their catalogue and website, also able to chat to a librarian.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Week 6 Tagging, Del.icio.us
Spent a little time exploring Del.icio.us and got horrribly sidetracked wandering about in other people's bookmarked sites, mainly travel sites that take me away from my desk for a bit!! Also found a neat game someone had tagged - doing a three point turn to park a car - I used up 60 sec and the computer told me I was out of time. At least I didn't hit any other cars in the carpark!!
Don't know if I would use this but certainly an interesting concept. The example of teachers sharing teaching resource discoveries was excellent.
Don't know if I would use this but certainly an interesting concept. The example of teachers sharing teaching resource discoveries was excellent.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
PBWIKI Sandbox
Quite fun reading everybody's favourite holiday places and recipes - why is chocolate everyone's favourite thing???? Might come back to this and read a bit more. Added my favourite holiday destinations briefly and wish I was there now!!!!!
Monday, August 11, 2008
Spanish rooftops on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Spanish rooftops on Flickr - Photo Sharing! I made a neat jigsaw with Flickr Toys - would make great gifts at Christmas!
What about Wikis?
Had a bit of trouble getting my head around these things called Wikis. I am a bit sceptical about anything that can be edited and the changes saved by anybody. Doesn't that leave web pages wide open to people mischief-making? However I watched the You Tube video Wikis in Plain English with the example of the people planning a camping trip and could see how that worked very well, better than email.
Did find something to interest me though - on St Jospeh County Public Library's subject guides pages. Followed a link to the Stone Circle Network, an organization that encourages women to write their life stories!! They are also marketing a great cookbook/memoir which looks really fascinating, think it was called Kitchen Table Stories. Interstingly enough, one of the authors is a New Zealander!
That's it for now.
Did find something to interest me though - on St Jospeh County Public Library's subject guides pages. Followed a link to the Stone Circle Network, an organization that encourages women to write their life stories!! They are also marketing a great cookbook/memoir which looks really fascinating, think it was called Kitchen Table Stories. Interstingly enough, one of the authors is a New Zealander!
That's it for now.
Olympic Games wizardry
Found myself mesmerized on Saturday night by the awesome technology used to give the world the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Beijing - no idea how some of the fantastic lighting and special effects were created, how did the writing appear on the enormous scroll of paper as the figures danced over it??? How did they do the sparkling Olympic rings ?? And how will London compete with the spectacle when it is their turn?
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