Week 5 Fun things Part 1

Well, you could spend hours creating posters with this http://wigflip.com/automotivator/ but some of us actually have work to do. Ae all the generators are really exciting and a site that allows you to do celtic cross stitch patterns is great http://www.celticxstitch.ie/cgi-bin/stitches.cgi There are some sites that I can't even imagine going into but I am just a conservative librarian so who's surprised!

My brain scan is above and I don't know if I should be worried or not. Does this mean I never let my thoughts out or is something stopping me from letting others knowing what I think. Here is the site see what it does for you! http://brainscannr.com/

I am now about to enter the world of Library thing. You may never see me again!

News Feeds ctd plus item 7

The new technology I looked at was the "Kindle" e-book reader from Amazon which has just come out. Apparently the name comes from kindling a persons interest in reading(http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,139777/article.html). I don't know that it would make me want to use one. I am still an "oldie" I prefer using hardcopy books but for those people whose lives are ruled by technology then this would keep them reading! This is always a good thing. This reader looks a great deal smaller than the ones I saw years ago. This makes it easier to curl up with an e-book!

News feeds would be good for those who need to be kept up to date on issues. People in marketing or business, those who need to be kept up to date with technology. I personally found looking for RSS feeds easier than looking for news feeds. Having said that I found searching through Topix.net the easiest of the sites. It seemed to be more self explanotory than the other sites.

The new technology I looked at was the "Kindle" e-book reader from Amazon that has just come out.

RSS Feeds and News Feeds

RSS is great - you can keep up to date with news without having to search for a needle in a haystack(searching the net can sometimes feel like this!). I will just have to remember to check bloglines plus remember the correct passwords!
Having said it is great - what is not so great is having to log into bloglines to get the information. It would be good if you just receive an email possibly once a week to say when new info is available.
Libraries could take advantage of this by having links to the catalogue when new titles come into a persons saved search. You could let people know what great new services we offer or events that would be coming up.
Here is my link for my bloglines account - don't know if it will work but have a go.
http://www.bloglines.com/blog/friendly dragon sarah

News Feeds seem to be a bit more problematic. I haven't found them as easy to use as RSS. It may just take my brain time to get used to how they work.

Flickr week 3ish

Well I have finally looked at Flickr and created a trading card. I also enjoyed looking at Montagr where I created a montage with tiger pictures. I did not see how to save my montage though - this may have been a brain block.
I also looked at Mappr which looks quite good - being able to put actual photos of sites on a map would have a great many applications.