Podcasts

Good for catching up on programs you may have missed, but what about download limits? I don't have a very large limit myself. Libraries could podcast author talks, storytelling sessions/babes, training sessions, lectures etc. Maybe even do staff book reviews or book talks.

Answer Boards

Fine for those with time on their hands! Maybe staff in answersnow could use example questions and answers to post, if they had spare time, or contribute. There are good tips on the answerboards site on how-to.

Round and round in circles

All I wanted was my Matthew Reilly photos to go on the Wiki. Sounds so simple doesn't it! Except to browse for them from the pc required a more recent version of Flash player than we had on staff pcs, and I didn't want to install that. So the alternative was to pull them off a website. Like Flickr. (I never created a Flickr account in the earlier module - lust looked.) Setting up an account in Flickr needs a Yahoo login. WHY???? Does this mean I need to keep an otherwise useless and unwanted yahoo account active just so I can put photos on Flickr. GRRRR!. Anyway - the Yahoo login. I know I had done this but do you think I could login? Only one of two possible passwords - neither worked. SO - tried to set up a new Yahoo account. Tried 5 (yes, FIVE!) staff pcs - none would display the coded script needed to authenticate the login. Finally the 6th PC worked. So now I have a new Yahoo account. Setup Flickr. Added photos. Added link to Wiki. Took an hour to add 11 photos to the Wiki. (Not to mention many swear words.) So not worth the effort.

more technorati troubles

Technorati Profile

Registering my blog with Technorati has been the most irritating and exhaustive process I have ever had to go through. And the really annoying thing is that I don't even WANT my blog to be tagged, or found in Technorati. Social Bookmarking has been an awful module, and has taken far too long. Am completely over this.

Technorati troubles

There are NO results for nswpln2008.
Complete waste of time. Need 2 doggy photos to get over this one.

A delicious link

http://delicious.com/max.angus

Still can't quite see the point of bookmarking - particularly for my own personal sites - they're all marked as favourites on my laptop. For work - well maybe, but if I feel the need to go back to a particular website I can usually remember what it was.

Tags - what is there to get excited about?

Tags seem useless without control - with control, how is it better than links on a website? (except for easier user-additions). Ok I guess for building a list of web pages for reference. Great for dumbing down the workforce - no need for library knowledge any more. Cleveland's bookmarks look better, but Weblinks by QLS still seems a better way to provide annotated lists of websites.

Max and Angus on the beach at Peregian. We only like little waves!

Wiki Edits

Am building up an irritatingly long list of logins and passwords. What with my blog, the wiki, Library thing, Janison itself etc, etc, etc, I am starting to lose track. And what do you do to prevent this? Write them an a scrappy bit of paper that anyone can find. Very secure!

Have finally done a bit of editing on the IPY page of the wiki, but am pretty unimpressed. All I did was add some meeting minutes, but they're already on the G drive. Why duplicate this? at least I can tick off Wikis. YEAH!

Cheating today

Nothing to say. Photo only. (well, I actually did add another blog to follow, so it still counts as an update to my blog). This is Angus, a.k.a. the great white hunter, the lizards' nemesis, possum hater extraordinaire, butter-wouldn't-melt-in-my-mouth terrier-ist. Cute as all getout though! Can't finish wikis till I think of something deep and meaningful to add to the IPY library page. This may never happen. Keep meaning to take some photos - hard when the camera insists on staying at home!

My new rule

I am now committed to adding a Westie photo to every new posting - dog related or not. Will have to remember to put lots on my new BrisEstick, when it arrives. This is Max, one of my beautiful boys - always smiling!

Anyway - video online. Imagine all that online space being devoted to the biggest collection of poorly focused, poorly produced rubbish I've ever seen (except for the Westie ones, of course!) . I would hope if you were to use them in a professional capacity they would be of a better quality. Otherwise they are just a time-waster. Except for the opportunity to present alternate points of view in a direct, visual format, or inhouse presentations, I think it's one of those things that people get excited about just because it's there. You don't want to suspend critical evaluation in all the excitement of someone else's funniest home videos.