Mashups

How cool is this!!!!

This is a mashup of the photo that I uploaded a few posts ago.

Looks awesome, I am going to have fun playing with that one.

It would be good to be able to Mash Google Earth with Councils website, so that all the libraries are on Google Earth.

Too advanced for me, but maybe in the future....

LibraryThing

Here is the link to my catalogue in librarything. Feel free to add books that you think I will like to read.

Enjoy.
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/lionkel

Social Bookmarking

Well I must admit I don't really understand how to link anything of Delicious into my Blog. Bit confused by it all really.

I can see benefits to using this sort of thing as part of the library catalogue or even Felix - Websites that are used often by staff/recommended websites to customers. It would also be useful for people who use heaps of computers, ie our customers who use the public machines could save their favourites so they didn't lose them each time they logged out.

Kel

The fun of videos

Today I covered videos online as part of my 23 things journey.



I have used You Tube occasionally, not often, but is interesting to see how normal people can become stars in their own right by posting a video on You Tube.



Here is a video I got off You Tube. It is of the Seattle Library. Now I am going to other places other than Seattle, but Seattle is at the beginning of my trip, and I am just sooooo excited to be going there. Once I leave there on the 3rd of October, I can start thinking about everywhere else (everywhere else includes LA, New York, Grand Canyon, Vegas, Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, London....)

Here is the video.

RSS Feeds

I have just gone into Bloglines and subscribed to 5 RSS feeds. The ones I chose were:
Library Link of the Day 3 (0)
NYTimes.com Home: 1 unread" href="http://beta.bloglines.com/b/view?mode=addsubs&siteId=13328#read-74008770" bl_id="74008770">NYT > NYTimes.com Home 1 (0)
Powerhouse Museum - Photo of the Day 0 (0)
USATODAY.com Nation - Top Stories 8 (0)
Yahoo! News: Sports News 0 (0)

I don't think I would be going into this much. I tend to enjoy just searching the web, but it is certainly interesting to see how they work.

We could have a library one, to pass on information. Eg, CSI could use RSS feeds, everyone could subsribe to the feed, and when there is information to share, we would add a new feed in.

I am enjoying my 23 things experience!

This is where I am going

This is a photo of Seattle. I will be there in a little over 3 weeks. It looks pretty awesome, a little like Circular Quay in Sydney. Can't wait to see things like the Pike St Fish Market, the Library, the Seattle Space Needle, the Apple Superstore etc. I will write more in my blog when I get there!

Kel




(Photo from Flickr - taken by Dean Forbes)

Taking the plunge

Well - I think I have a basic handle on most IT related things, but most of this web 2.0 stuff still has me a little bewildered.

I have a facebook page (how fun is facebook!!), and I podcast the Nova 106.9 breakfast show to listen to at the gym and when driving, but that is pretty much the extent of it. Juice is great podcasting software - I find it so much easier to use than iTunes.

I am off on my big adventure in a few weeks (2 months away in the US and Europe) so that fact that I am learning to blog is so timely right now. I have to learn if you can post pictures to your blog. I guess that will come next.

I can't wait to start holding classes in Web 2.0 technology. I think there is a real need for us to go beyond our basic internet and computer classes. This is fun stuff to be teaching.

Ok, will go now. Will blog later.

Kel