Well, I may be behind schedule but I have signed up for Bloglines and added the following feeds:
Quotes of the day; Powerhouse museum photo of the day; Librarybytes; ABS blog for Librarians and assorted ABC news ones including science, entertainment, offbeat. Adding the feeds was a little challenging at first but managed OK. Am enjoying the quotes and photo of the day. I can see that as long as you are careful not to subscribe to too many feeds at one time that this would a very useful tool to let you know when sites are updated. RSS technology would be useful in the library situation by letting our patrons know upcoming events, changes to the library and related news. It could be a very useful marketing tool.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Flickr frustration!
I am finding the whole web/library 2.0 experience to be very frustrating when trying to access the required sites using a slow internet connection. So many of these sites only seem to run smoothly (and quickly) when you have unlimited fast connection. I am trying to do this whole thing using the public intenet network at work and dial-up connection at home and it is taking me SO long to get to anything. I hate the assumption of all these sites that everyone who wants to use them autoatically has fast internet access, this is just not always the case. Websites hould be designed to load quickly and simply.
Anyway enough ranting, I checked out flickr briefly, looks quite interesting and will explore it further another day when I have some more time, the creative commons aspect of things could prove very useful when searching for images that can be used in non-profit library displays. One of the most interesting photos I came across was this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrhide/1410825821/
Very cool and unusual cloud formation, in the shape, of course, of a dragon. Apart from the frustration associated with accessing the sites using slower internet I am enjoying learning about the new technologies available, librarians need to know what is out there if we want to dispel the myth of the stereotyped old lady with glasses. We are not all OLD! although I do wear glasses!
Anyway enough ranting, I checked out flickr briefly, looks quite interesting and will explore it further another day when I have some more time, the creative commons aspect of things could prove very useful when searching for images that can be used in non-profit library displays. One of the most interesting photos I came across was this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrhide/1410825821/
Very cool and unusual cloud formation, in the shape, of course, of a dragon. Apart from the frustration associated with accessing the sites using slower internet I am enjoying learning about the new technologies available, librarians need to know what is out there if we want to dispel the myth of the stereotyped old lady with glasses. We are not all OLD! although I do wear glasses!
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