At the movies

Amazingly, I had not only heard of but had actually *used* YouTube, almost a first for me with "23 Things". For everybody's delectation & delight I have shared the link for "Ninja Librarian" - always guaranteed to cheer you up on a rainy day.
Here comes the moan, & you all know what it is by now..... why is there so much *rubbish* to wade through, where is YouTube Scholar? Tho, I suppose "Ninja Librarian" probably wouldn't qualify :)
Lots of possibilities here for educating readers, "How to ..." in multiple languages would be great.
If you're all *very* lucky I will share great steeplechasing moments of our times at a later point.......:)

Pod, Pod, Podding Away

Podcasts this week - nice 'n' easy. bit problematic using an earpiece in the middle of a busy reading room but I concealed it discreetly under my hair :)

Just used BBC Podcasts, which was very straight-forward, & listened to an interesting piece in which Peter Jackson discussed his film of "The Lovely Bones".

I can see the potential of podcasting for getting readers informed, especially if they can download to an MP3 or I-Player & take the cast away to listen to & adsorb at leisure.

Might have to be pretty strict about earphones if there was to be a lot of usage in the reading rooms tho.

Delicious is giving me indigestion :(

Well, I've done Thing 10, I added the History Faculty library & DevouredByVegans to my network & I forwarded a bookmark to DevouredbyVegans. I've also added my Delicious bookmark link to my IGoogle toolbar & had a good root around in the Delicious searches.....but......I cannot love Delicious. It doesn't look friendly, it's hard to navigate & seems to be very dependent on the quality of tag being created. As ever (here it comes, the moan I've moaned from day one of "23 Things") there is so much *rubbish* to negotiate.
I could see that I would use it occassionally to tag an interesting on-line article which had a Delicious button but, otherwise, not. Also, there are *so many* of these tagging things out there Dig, Twitter, Facebook etc. etc. where do you stop?
Finally, if there is a Delicious lover out there who can convince me that behind that ugly face is something truly lovable, let me know; though I'll warn you, I'll take a *lot* of convincing :)

Not tasting too nice at the moment

Well, Delicious week. Can't say I'm too keen at the moment, However, I've made my account, saved some bookmarks & given them tags. here's a screenshot:-

Will wait until I've done some more but I'm not too clear on why or when I would use Delicious. I've had a look at the History Faculty & can see the use for flagging up things of interest for readers. I'm assuming that a library user would check Delicious as well as a library's own website; & I do wonder about keeping a library's profile current on all of these different things.

Hopefully, Delicious will taste sweeter with further exploration.

Furry Friend gets Picnikd

Furry Friend, originally uploaded by Al's Pix2010.

And here he is after - aaaah!!!!

Again, I found Picnik to be very easy to use & great for making a good picture out of a not hugely wonderful one - I didn't dare move the camera closer in case he ran away :)

Before the Picnik

Furry Friend, originally uploaded by Al's Pix2010.

Here's my little furry friend before he was Picnik'd

Flickring to life

I've created a Photostream,
here's the screenshot.

I've joined the 23 Things Flickr group & uploaded a photo to it.
I've also put my Photostream pictures into sets & I've "Geotagged" a picture.
Flickr is very easy to use & it would be great to see some Oxford library Photostreams - "Oxford's prettiest libraries" perhaps?
I can see the potential for flagging up collections & highlighting progress. (the Bod. bookstore at Swindon as it grows?)
This has been the task I've felt most comfortable with thus far or, maybe, I'm *evolving* :)

Thing 7

Boars Hill , originally uploaded by Al's Pix2010.

Eeeek!!! I'm in Flickr & have just managed to create direct access to my Blog (I think). So here's the first picture I managed to upload to Flickr.
Blimey, this is like learning to walk !!

Things 5 & 6

Now, fellow "23ers", please don't laugh. I had noticed those orange RSS feed buttons on lots of web pages & studiously ignored them because *I* thought they were links to noisy audio files ("R" for *radio*!) , which do not go down well with readers in the hallowed silence of the Bod's reading rooms. Got that well wrong didn't I?
Anyway, now I know what they are, I have subscribed to 6.
Early thoughts?
Lots of rubbish (as ever) to wade through if you search using Google Blog Search. Example, a search for "Virago" (as in Virago publishing)found good stuff like "Verity's Virago Venture" but also brought up an alarming thing called "Chesty Virago" which I would *not* recommend to the easily startled!:)
I am now going to start playing with my feeds (quietly ;)).