Week 5 Social Networking

I had a look at both these services. Unfortunately the computer was running v. slowly and so the MySpace page for Yarra Plenty was jerky and couldn't be appreciated in all its glory. I could see how it would be an asset in reaching "the yoof" and portraying the library as a mulimedia/social focal point in the community. Facebook is also intriguing and I know a few people with very sophisticated and active accounts. I did start a profile but got too shy to put in too much info. I really don't have the time or energy to be interacting much on line in a personal way but could see the benefit of professional applications.

Week 4 RSS feeds

I've had a bloglines account for several years now and have found it useful to skim headlines of blogs I'm interested in even if I don't proceed to the whole article. I look at about 20 library related sites (mostly American) plus one on the theatre and several general interest. I've added the urls of all those blogs associated with this learning exercise and find it an easy way to keep abreast of when someone has added a new post etc. One of my favourite blogs when I need cheering up is this one http://libetiquette.blogspot.com/ Enjoy

Week 3: Image Generator and Library Thing

Had a great time playing around with these two applications. Found both fairly self-explanatory and just needed to follow the steps to set up basics. Image Chef was fun especially liked the poetry blender application (see below) and I could see lots of creative uses for library promotion and notices. Library Thing is also very useful as a way to keep track of books, find ones of similar interest and have web interaction with like-minded bib-heads. Really loved being able to customize the book covers to my aesthetic taste. I also followed the instructions in the wiki and created an author tag cloud from the Blog Widgets

Library Thing

Bat Haiku - I wrote this (seemed apposite with all the vampire stuff around eg "True Blood" etc.) then put in Poetry Blender on Image Chef

ImageChef.com Poetry Blender

Playing with Image Generator - great fun

Just read my first co-blogger's comments - gave me a real frisson !!! Will go and have a look at other sites and return the favour.

Flickr account

I've set up my Flickr account and downloaded a few images into it. All pretty straightforward though as I don't possess a digital camera, I've had to make do with some scanned images and pictures from the web.

Here is a link to a picture on my Flickr account http://www.flickr.com/photos/36010435@N05/3342389851/
It is by the French symbolist painter Odilon Redon and is entitled The Crying Spider
You can find out more about Odilon at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odilon_Redon

I've set up the blog and next step is to record my thoughts. Only, I discover I have no thoughts !

Playing about

This is the initial test.