#17 Playing around with PBwiki

I could get hooked on the plcmclearning PBwiki travel page.........Ljubljana
So many places to see so little time.........retirement is looking good for me, but how can I convince my husband to keep working??

# 16 So what's in a wiki?

Wiki's are a very useful tool. I can see a use for them in public library's. We ran an activity where people could leave comment about a book they had read to be wrapped (an extra sleeve) around the book for the next person to read and decide whether they agreed with the previous person or the publishers comment etc.......so this could be useful to set up in Wiki.
Similar to the Booklovers-Princeton Public Library.

#15 Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and into the future

I'm not too sure where technology is going to take us in the future.......it has already come further and a lot quicker than I would have imagined a couple of decades ago when I started in a small country library using the brown's card system. The years seemed to have flown past!
The articles were interesting reading as are reading the comment made by everyone on this exercise.

#14 Technorarti

I just wondering how or when I would want to use this especially in a library situation. Afterall this is not necessarily 'factual' information. A lot is heresay or down right junk.
I guess if you are just playing around for fun and you require links.........or see what others thought or perhaps it's great for business and you could link your business name!!!
Technorarti

# 13 Del.icio.us

Well one could say this is a time waster, but addictive. Bookmarking is useful for business' and I can see how you can have all your links listed and would be great used in a family/wedding/ gathering blog. Maybe even Genealogy could be used. You can be describing Grandma and up she pops in photo form and a bit about her history!
I see it like a web page but you go off on different tangents.......the further you search the further you go and sometimes you only find yourself or your bookmark by looking for it again.
Schools/Kids pages could use this for kids that love to follow paths, like the choose a path or pick a page storybooks.
All in all a great learning tool.

#11 Library Thing

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/shazob

One forgets that we read some great literature during our years at high school. Above is a small sample of my English lit. classes from years gone by. One of these books, My Brother Jack was recently, well a couple of years ago made into a mini series for television. This made the public aware of the book and the library had to buy new copies. Just shows you that television, movies etc still have links back to literature. One of the English subjects for Yr 12 students these days is books that have been made into films. How often do we see a book title becoming popular after the film is released. Shakespeare has never been so popular!

# 10 Image generators

http://www.letterjames.com/start.php?

#9 Finding feeds that I like!

http://abc.net.au/services/rss.htm

http://www.abc.net.au/news/feeds/

http://uk.horoscopes.yahoo.net/yahoouk/Virgo/

#8 RSS - My Yahoo

I have 'My Yahoo' already set up with most of the feeds I like. I do like the ability to set up my stock market fantasies apart from the headlines and weather. I have now added Unshelved for a little more humour in my day.
So I'm going to give Bloglines a miss this time round. I'm sure Bloglines is a great service but there is only so much you can join online.
http://www.theage.com.au/rsschannels/

#7 This card should be called FAT Chance

Technology is sooooo consuming of our free time..... society is becoming reliant on power!
It's no wonder that ozone layer is diminishing.
I'm like everyone else wanting to use or see what is new. I would dearly love one of these new wizz bang digital camera's that takes 25 shots in 5 seconds.......they make for great holiday photos.
Then be able to run them through my big flat screen TV and publish them to the web for my family or friends to view from all over the world.
Possibly this is one of the best things I do love is the ability to contact family or friends at anytime anywhere. I can see what they have been up to or where they have been even before they come home. Email has brought the world closer together for those who want to learn........but I do so love getting a snail mail letter from Nan says my 25yr old.