Had the 2nd life, looking for a 3rd

I enjoyed the 4 corners doco so much I bought the company. No, not really. I did go and join up 2nd life though to check it all out.

I did venture to Info Island to find it was really very empty. To me it seems a bit silly to go to 2nd life for information when it is just a click away anyway. I can see the benefit of getting people together and meeting librarians from all over the world, it is a great place to meet and exchange ideas if you are stuck here in Perth.

2nd life seems to be mostly about chatting idly, dancing and fun. It will be interesting to see how the Information/ Library part of it expands.

Klickety

Flikr gets the Flik

No not really. I had way too much fun on it. Looking at the a couple of people's photo collection took me about an hour on the desk! It all makes me feel very inadequate as a photographer. The process of getting the photo on this blog was a little long winded to set up, but not impossible. I can't really see too much relevance to libraries, other than getting students familiar with tags/ subject headings.

My favourite Mashup was the Montagr. I was not sure what to do with it for a long time. Once I got the hang of it I had a great time checking out various topics and creating the montages. Quite a waste of time, but that is what we are here for...Klickety

If it had wings it would fly...

IMG_2786, originally uploaded by i_kolk.

I am very excited to have accomplished another milestone in Web 2.0. Spent lots of time playing with passwords for my new Yahoo account which was a bit frustrating.

I have had a great time looking in Flickr. Just looking at one persons photos could take a couple of hours...I tagged, but it did not work when I tried to do the search in Flickr, it came up with all of JG's pics. Maybe it is a matter of time....Klickety

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

New blogging blooks

Hi Guys, I noticed a couple of electonic books that might be interesting and Lyn ordered them. They have been catalogued now if you have time for a look:

Title : Blogging For Dummies
Author : Hill, Brad
eISBN : 9780470007303
price : 21.99

b15386077
o10887453
Title : Videoblogging
Author : Dedman, Jay; Paul, Joshua
eISBN : 9780470079744
price : 29.99

Klickety

Wiki weadings

I suspect I have been looking at a lot of Wiki's and not even knowing it. I guess I really like the huge variety of things that you can do with a Wiki. The Wiki's for the ALA conferences would be really handy if you were going to something like that, just a great place to share information and ask questions easily.

As for using it for libraries, I like the idea of being able to add reviews to items in the library catalogue. I think the students could get a lot of of that, I always enjoy reading the comments on Amazon before we purchase. It helps decide if it is worth the effort and cost or not. So I am sure the same could be done with the catalogue. It will be interesting to see if other libraries take it up or not. I would not like to be the first one to do it! It would be very hard to let go of control of the catalogue as well, it is so regimented.

RSS Feeds

Had a difficult time trying to get the RSS feeds from EBSCO to work, it was only when I checked my GMail that I saw the email from EBSCO that had an RSS feed link on it that I got it to work. However once I got past that there was no stopping me, and I have been adding lots of RSS feeds to my bloglines account.

I like the idea of putting a lot of the faculty links on to Wikkis, the idea of everyone doing there own work has merit. Being one of the webmasters here, I find it is a lot of work trying to get it to look right. It would be great if everyone in the library could just make up a blog or a wikki the students can link to with all the information needed. They are so easy and look great without a lot of effort. Can't see it happeing though, so it is back to Dreamweaver!