Week 7 - TAGGING

Del.icio.us - used search term 'Tim Winton' - and it listed articles with various tags that I could choose to explore.

Librarything - using title 'Let me sing you gentle songs' - was able to find out it was originally published as Astrid and Veronika. Indentified the 'cloud' of terms used to tag the book. Note: books could be owned or simply read by teh contributors.

Useful for the borrower who comes in to get new ideas for books to read. Can show them the catalogue and indicate Librarything clouds and they can jump off for new directions in reading. Also the reader can get reviews (before going to our E-resources) for particular books they have enjoyed and suggestions for books that they might like as further reading.

Good for creating a personal list of books read/wanted to read in a particular year for example. This is a good place to store this information for future use.

This will be very useful and of interest to me.

Technorati - address book for blogs. Used search term 'boroondara' - brought me to the library blog. Lots of advertising yuk. This is only one way of blog searching - millions of ways are available. Could use Bloglines for example.

Using Tim Winton first as a blog search and got one result. Used as a 'post search' - it expand the initial results to 28. These are posts that mention Tim Winton as opposed to blogs.

Used 'Vancouver Writers' Festival' and found a blog by David Hewson which gave a great overview of the recent festival. I will make a comment on his site responding to the info he has given re my desire/dream holiday to this festival (after having attended a session at this year's MWF hosted by the convenor of VWF - fabulous!)

Discussed how I might share this interesting article with others eg. send the link via email to friends or tag it in Delicious, Twitter, Facebook etc.

Week 6 - Fun stuff



A week of annual leave last week so the catching-up process is pressing in on me.



Everything is going very slowly on my computer today to hinder this effort. Waiting, waiting....



Used Stumpleupon at our last CL training session.



Today checked out Rollyo -kizuki - quotes stuff. Advertising links were evident for the topics I entered to get quotes. Kind of useful at a glance.



Lolcat - I ask "why?"



Lastfm - much more engaging. Although one wonders whether the artist I was reading about really needs to get "happy birthday" messages from all and sundry. Do they care? But will explore this further as it is quite compelling for someone interested in the world of music.