Technorati & Library Thing

I have explored Technorati and Library Thing. On Technorati i didn't find a different search result when searching for bookmobile from the advanced search option, i found nswpln2008 photos though. I LOVE Library thing. I think it is a great idea to make your own online library and see what other people have said about different books. Our library's catalogue is on our website so i dont think its worth puting it on again on a different website but i do think that patrons should be aware that this website exists and make their own accounts. http://www.librarything.com/catalog/r.cormick this is the link to my Library Thing catalogue.
I have even added a library thing search bar and what they call a blog widget of my books.

Del.icio.us

http://del.icio.us/r.cormick this link is my del.icio.us account that i made. I have imported my favourites which was on my browser.

I'm definently going to use this very often as im on different PC's all the time at work and i can see it being used for research assistance. The library could make an account and put good websites on del.icio.us and group them under different catagories/tags.

Kids Rock

Week 6 - Videos Online

I have explored you tube, google video and have managed to embed a video into my blog!!! YAY! Take a look at the Crazy Warehouse Guy from Chaser's War on Everything!! Really Funny!! It wasn't as hard as i thought to embed a video. All you have to do is copy the embed HTML, create a new post and paste it in it. First i clicked on "add video" and tried to paste it in there but it didn't work.

Crazy Warehouse Guy In a Library

WEEK 5 - WIKI'S

This time i wasn't mind boggled at the term. At least this time i heard of the term and knew of a wiki - wikipedia.
I looked at some of the wiki's and thought the library wiki's are a great idea. Two in particular "Book lovers wiki" and "library success : a best practices wiki". In the "book lovers wiki" they had book reviews from people all different books in all types of genres. "library success" is a wiki which allows input of anything that might help other librarians and also anything that other libraries have done which was a success. I think these are both fantastic ideas. And for all those Star wars fans out there, there is a star wars wiki called "wookieepedia" and as you might imagine it is popular with 55,316 articles since March 2005.

Motorbike

I wanted to put our new motorbike on my blog so here it is. My partner and i got our L's and bought our very first motorbike.

WEEK 4 - RSS

I was a bit mind boggled when first hearing the term RSS, but after experimenting I see that it is a great feature. Being able to add feeds from your favourite websites in a newreader (bloglines) or your blog saves you time - you dont have to go to all your favourite websites, you can just go to your blog or newsreader and its all there - your favourite recipes, news, jokes and the list can go on.

On bloglines i added feeds from national geographic, library blogs, a photographers blog and the powerhouse museum photo. I also added a feed from taste.com to my blog.

I can see how libraries can use this. They can add feeds of library news and other library blogs.

My photos on flickr

YAY!!! I have successfully uploaded some of my photos of Airlie Beach on flickr. They are called "Reef World", "Flying to Airlie Beach", "Flying to Airlie Beach 2", "Airlie Beach Hula Dancing", "Airlie Beach Resort Pool", "Fire Sticks".

WOW!!

Below is a picture of a beautiful sunset that i uploaded from flickr. This person is obviously a FANTASTIC photographer!!!!!

How i did it!
After exploring around flickr looking at heaps of different, wonderful pics i stumbled across this picture......WOW.... i clicked on blog this (above the picture). It then told me to go to click the link to google below, sign in and click grant access. Now when you go "blog this" you can just choose your blog, click post now and away you go!!!!

, originally uploaded by Sh@mpoo.