23 Things - Thing 23

Finally - the last thing. I've enjoyed parts of this, things like Flickr and LibraryThing and not enjoyed other things as much (especially when I had to rush through them or they didn't spark my interest) like Technorati and YouTube. But on the whole I think it's a really good idea. Especially to learn and think about and keep up with emerging trends and technologies. And if another program was offered I'd probably do that too (in fact I'm going to have a look at the 43 Things site) and at some point (in the neat future, I hope) I'm going to come back and thoroughly go over the 23 Things so you can expect more posts from me, about this, in the future. But now I can breath a big sigh of relief and take a break for Christmas.

23 Things - Thing 22

I love audio books. In fact I had a good look at the eaudio stuff when it first was introduced but I couldn't find anything I really wanted to listen to. But now there's heaps of stuff including a whole heap of JD Robb's (one of my fav's) but unfortunatly no Terry Pratchett.

List of J. D. Robb EAudio Books provided by the ACTLIS

23 Things - Thing 21

Podcasts are fun, but I'm on someone elses computer (remember no internet access at home) and having trouble accessing some of the files. I found one that looked really good but can't get it to play (I did get something else to play and I added one podcast to my bloglines account). I think the most important thing I found out is that I need a lot more time with this. There's masses to search and browse through but I'm tired and I've had enough.

23 Things - Thing 20

I've heard so much about YouTube but hadn't really bothered to explore it. Still don't feel as though I'm missing much. Well just a little. Also I can't use my work computer to access it and I feel uncomfortable using the general one. What I'm going do is put links to one of my favourite comedy sketches (Dr Who and the Curse of the Fatal Death) which I think everyone should see and not worry about putting in as a movie (maybe later).

Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVpKxgD-Zoc

Part 2.1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAHhuDOB5Bo

Part 2.2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXRmpm0MEMY

Thinking about how short videos could benefit a library, well you could make clips of demonstrations of things, a short intro & walkthroughs of libraries, clear directions on how to get there, storytimes, the possiblitities extend as far as your imagination and make the library more accessible and easier to understand through the internet. As for the YouTube site, it feels a lot like other sites we've been looking at through the 23 Things.

23 Things - Thing 19

Groan - so many things to look at, so little time.

I had a quick look at the fun web 2.o award winners and the games ones as well and the one I like best was the Guess the Google Image.

I'm not very good at it, but it's still fun. It was also interesting to see that a lot of the things we have been playing with over the last month or so are also listed like Technorati, Zoho and LibraryThing

23 Things - Thing 18

Look as I've mentioned before, I don't have internet at home, which makes this fantastic concept a little irrelevant for me. I'm also a bit paranoid. I know there are safeguards etc but I feel better using a computer that is a stand alone and not putting anything I wish keep under wraps online or even on my usb. I really, really like the concept 'tho.

I also like that Zoho has access to all the 'usual' office programs that most people need and that you can work offline as well. They even have the capacity to create a wiki!

23 Things - Thing 17

It felt really weird. I definitely need more practice. But a very short exercise. Also makes me feel good to see the link to my blog on someone else's page (I still haven't done Thing 4 - Monday I promise).

23 Things - Thing 16

I love the idea of having a workplace wiki - one where you could share advice, tips and tricks. Also where you could find the rules and regs you want in an easily searchable form. And having one where anyone could enter any type of info sounds really good too. (for a better description check out: http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=11264) I'm a bit concerned that not a great many customers would be interested in adding or using a wiki while it's still in the 'developmental' stage. I'm not sure how many people (other than staff) access the library blog at the moment.

I think the funniest article that I came across is a description of librarians @http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/LibrarianI love how this wiki doesn't just have 'serious' articles but also a lovely sense of humour. Something I desperately need at the moment.

It might also be fun to have a 'life' wiki where you could write / describe all the lessons you learnt from opening a bank account to how to deal with a sibling in one or more forms of panic. The opportunities for striking terror into the hearts of friends and family are endless.

Although this could work as a blog.

23 Things - Thing 15

Now this is something I am more interested in - and something I feel is worth time spent thinking and reading about. I had a quick read of all the articles but the one I found most interesting was 'To a temporary place in time' by Dr Wendy Schultz. What I particularly liked about it was the description of Library 4.0 as a meditation spa. Could I have one now? Please?
In a way I've always thought of libraries as a quiet retreat from the world. As a child I love to go and sit in a quiet corner (on a comfortable chair) and read the afternoon away. It would be nice to be able to integrate the experience of luxurious sanctuary with the necessity of providing a relevant service to people from a humongous range of background and experiences with a limited budget and other governmental requirements.

23 Things - Thing 14

I can understand the appeal of finding out how popular blog (I'm curious about mine but I suspect no one's paying any attention to it). And to check out what everyone else is interested in. Unfortunaly Technorati feels like (to me anyway) another interesting way (in a search engine kind of a way) to spend a lot of time in front of the computer and I'm not really into that at the moment. I have a gazillion other things that require my attention and I keep getting interrupted. I think this is another one of those things I'm just going to have to get back to. Maybe there's a website that could help keep track of all those things as well. Hmmm.

23 Things - Thing 13

I think the thing I like best about Del.icio.us is the fact you can access anywhere you have a net connection. Although transferring and organising the enormous number of bookmarks I have (on various computers) is a monumental task. To answer the question we were asked about how useful we thought Del.icio.us would be as a resource tool. I think it could be very useful if I had the time (and the inclination or customers asking the 'right' questions), all I seem to do now is scrabble to keep my head above water.



Just out of curiosity is anyone else not able to access the tutorial?

And now for something a little different ...

Mostly (and I'm sure you've notice) I've only been posting as part of the 23 Things, so i thought it was time I blogged something else. And here it is:

This is a photo of the surprise teddy bears I got give for my last birthday. The georgous traditional bear (he is fantastic to hug) is called Khan. Love the name- it came with him. The little one I like to think of as the cute purple bear, smelling of lavender, that my mum gave me. Somehow I don't think that name's going to catch on.

23 Things - Thing 12

Rollyo - what an excellent idea. For those who don't know, Rollyo is a site where you can create a list of sites (especially ones that you know have accurate info) to search through when looking for info. I haven't really created anything yet but when I have more time I'm going to go back and create several different ones. In particular one for finding info for students, one for discovering craft ideas for kids and one to look up review of books. I look forward to making my life easier and more fun.






My [practically] nonexistent account @

http://rollyo.com/kymirryn

23 Things - Thing 11

For most of you who know me - I've been doing a reading journal for the last year and decided to handwrite it rather than doing it on the computer where I could also catalogue all the books I've got. Which many people have suggested doing by the way. And I've stubbornly resisted doing because I prefer to handwrite review. And now having discovered LibraryThing, I'm really glad I did. LibraryThing is a excellent (and esay!) way to list the books you own (or not as the case may be). I look foward to putting most of what I have in my library on the internet.

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

23 Things - Thing 10

I love online images stuff - It's so fun. I'd love to have more time to play around with things. My favourite is still the FD Toys but I really like the Generator Blog because it looks (and evaluates) a huge variety of fun stuff. I had a lot of fun making my own snowflake - see below.


You can make your own snowflake at http://www.zefrank.com/snowflake/. There was also a brain scan generator that was also pretty cool too.

23 Things - Thing 9

Still RSS feeds - I like going to websites and look for the feed icon especially with the ones I check regularly. But I'm not as much a fan of trying to find ones that are relevant to me. This is probably because of two things. One - I'm not really into keeping up with news & current affairs stuff (and I couldn't think of anything fun that I really wanted to follow), I'm much more interested in what is happening to me at the moment. Two - I feel I might have got a little more out of things if I had a couple of hours of free time to play around with this, if fact with pretty much everything so far. I sound like a broken record saying time and time again that I don't have enough time (and not internet access at home) but I'm feeling pressured and my patience and tolerance is running a little short.

Don't mind me I'm just a little grumpy at the moment.