Library Thing linkup

Week 5/Thing 10

This exercise I looked firstly at Librarything which I thought was really good, I entered in a couple of books I had read recently. From here I was able to view the reading lists of others who had enjoyed the same books. What great idea and so simple. Wish I though of that....
I also had a look at the image generator which was very fun. I thought this exercise was a lot of fun too and I had fun making a whole army of Che Guevaras! Unfortunately they didn't all fit right so I tried another which was the image reflector. Nice simple picture but quite a good effect.

Week 4

RSS feeds. This exercise was not too difficult, just a lot of copying and pasting between the sites and bloglines. I have created a Blogline account and have added 10 feeds to it. Mostly I added feeds from newspaper websites but I also added "ACL Learning 2.0" and a library cartoon site. I can see the potential with this service for people in a hurry that need to keep posted on particular news items. I don't think I'll be using it too much in my current situation though.
http://www.bloglines.com/blog/budnz82

Thing 5/Week 3

Bright albert park
Originally uploaded by Budnz82

This is my picture that I have uploaded onto Flickr. I have found Flickr quite easy to use and it's interesting looking at other material people have posted. For example I found other pics of Albert Park. I also searched ACL Learning 2.0 in the TAGS section and it turned up 4 photos. I really liked the "Organizr" feature, it was quite intuitive. The tags are quite a good way to search too and would probably be a good way for customers to search if they aren't familiar with database searches.

Facebook

Just had to post a postscript to my last entry I tried out Facebook on my home computer and I LOVE it! So easy to use and I have lots of friends/family/colleagues on there so I've been catching up with people I haven't spoken to for ages! The feature where it can search your mailboxes for contacts is very helpful. I think I'll be a Facebook advocate from now on :-)