Week 5 Task 10 -

I've had a look at a few image & text generators, but didn't really find much that I found even mildly titillating! I thought a Douglas Adams quote generator might be fun, and likewise a 'jargon generator' but I found them a bit puerile - I probably just need to muck around with a few others until I find something suitably warped that i might enjoy. The dummies cover opposite was generated using dummiez book cover maker 2007

Week 4 - tasks 8 & 9

Got the bloglines account and adding feeds thing sorted - but needed to offer a few unladylike words to assist in the process. I've added a few personal interest feeds, and some library related feeds. On reflection, I think a newsreader account would be really useful if an individual was job hunting, ( library staff member or a member of the public) You could assemble all your job hunting sites (those with applicable feeds at least) into the one place, and it would make checking them heaps easier. In a library sense, blogs are good for upcoming events and programs, and i think they could be useful for library supported book clubs as well. there's a directory of australian blogs, which was interesting to look at. There's something a little 'out there' and 'organic' about a lot of people's interest / hobby blogs - and I find this appealing.

http://www.wgrlc.vic.gov.au

Week #3 task 7 - technology post

What interests me about technology, is conveying 'how stuff works' to other people, because it's an exercise in appreciating different learning styles. Some folk need to know in-depth how technology works, others just need to know enough to 'get what they want'. In a previous library job, we had a program called 'L-Web' which was basically a drop-in style of public program, where we showed customers the basic fundamentals of the web - just the very basics of searching and navigating around a google page, or similar. I found the best way to start was to ask people what they were interested in - what they wanted to find out from the Internet. If people had a particular topic, such as real estate, selling or buying cars or household items, or planning a holiday, it was much easier for them to focus on their personal area of interest.
In one of my first library jobs, in an advertising agency, we were using 'dialog' and 'aussienet' (way before the internet as we know it now), and only the select few were allowed to access these tools. I was at work on the day that Chernobyl happened, and we read it first on dialog.
I remember also, being in the city at SLV for training, on 9/11 - you could not buy a newspaper in the whole of Melbourne - they were all gone. People did not really 'believe' it until they had read it in the paper. When the beaconsfield mine disaster happened, I didn't try to find a newspaper, I just went straight to the Internet to see what was happening.

Week #3 task 6 - more flickr

I chose to look at some of the flickr mashups / links and found one called 'palette organiser' (don't ask me how I found it!). It looked like it might be good for anyone who does scrapbooking, or similar crafts, because you could upload a photo and then palette organiser suggests appropriate colours which may complement your work. I am a big sewer (the English language really is hard to get on with sometimes - I mean that I do a lot of sewing!) so I could probably use this program (or similar) to determine which colours of fabrics complement others. I'm a little wary of some of these 'rules' about what colours go with others, but it could still be fun.

I also had a look at 'retrievr' which allows you to sketch a small picture in a retrieval box, and see if flickr can retrieve similar images. It's very experimental, and started to get a little surreal, as I drew in a picture of a smiley face, and it found a miserable face with tears!

I had a look at the librarian tradingcards too, but got a bit confused as I couldn't work out what you actually do with them?

Warneet Pier on Flickr - Photo Sharing! week #3 task 5

Warneet Pier on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

For learning task no 3, I am really unsure about the etiquette of just 'lifting' a photo from flickr, so presumably just having this link to it will enable people to see who the photographer is / or who provided it?? the picture featured is similar to the view I see on my regular walks, although I note there are no thick clouds of mossies in the picture. I don't have a digital camera yet, but will have to make the leap fairly soon, as my old Ricoh is about to celebrate its 27th birthday. I'm sure it will get very grumpy when it sees the new fangled replacement.

Late Starter - week #3

I went to a pony race at a country race course, some years ago, and put money on the only horse that did not get away from the gate until well after the rest of the field. He was late out because he was busy sorting himself out and getting organsied and making sure he looked gorgeous. Once out, he had to go like crazy to catch up to the rest of the field. I feel a little like that horse, with regard to this learning 2.0 exercise, because the rest of the field is way ahead and I will have to go like crazy to catch up.