So today there was a very brief post on LibrariesInteract.info which said that a lady won an award for a study on the word "the" and how it can cause problems for filing things alphabetically. It amazes me the different things people can write about. I guess when you're passionate about something, you're passionate about something.
I envy that. There have been so many points where I have been inspired by people's books and essays, all the wonderful things they can find so much to write about, but I just don't have that kind of passion towards anything. My interests fizzle out before they can mature and I just end up with a pile of incomplete personal projects.
Otherwise, the only other things I've really been receiving through Google Reader have been the Flickr pictures for the 365libs project and everyone else's blog entries through 23 Things. I keep considering unsubscribing to the 365libs feed because so many pictures get loaded a day and I just find it a hassle as all I really do is have a quick glance and then "mark all as read". But I'll leave it there for a little while longer. At the very least it gives me a bit of a kick on Fridays when Amanda, Lisa and I upload pictures to the 365libs and it comes through my Google Reader :-)
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Monday, October 8, 2007
Week 4 - Another Reflection
I almost scared myself by thinking that it was the end of the week again and I hadn't done my blog for Week 4 like I had promised. But no, I am saved by the slowness of time (even though lately it feels anything but!)
So I think I'm looking forward to Week 12, as it involves something that I haven't had much experience with (YouTube) and something I'd never even heard of before (SlideShare). At the beginning of this programme I found myself leaping ahead into things I already knew and investigating things I had known of, so I look forward to being able to discover something new in the time that I'm actually supposed to. There is always the possibility that I might jump ahead with those anyway, but that would probably involve me being bored at home and without homework, which won't be for much longer anyway.
Next week we will be getting onto things that I haven't investigated too much on my own yet (PBwiki), so I think I will have a better appreciation now that I will be moving at the appropriate pace. And now that this post will catch me up on the blogging side of it, I must get around to setting aside a designated time for me to blog and investigate the technologies involved with this programme. I think I will use my 23 Things session for the "playing around" side of it, then maybe set aside some time on a Friday afternoon to blog about my week with the technology (my session is on the Tuesday, so I will have had a few days to come up with some opinions of it).
I have been enjoying seeing everyone else's blog entries for this programme. It's very interesting to see the different styles of so many people in the same profession - just one of the many things I love about library people. Especially here at Murdoch and other University Libraries - there is an entire world in this one place and an entire set of diversities to fill it.
So I think I'm looking forward to Week 12, as it involves something that I haven't had much experience with (YouTube) and something I'd never even heard of before (SlideShare). At the beginning of this programme I found myself leaping ahead into things I already knew and investigating things I had known of, so I look forward to being able to discover something new in the time that I'm actually supposed to. There is always the possibility that I might jump ahead with those anyway, but that would probably involve me being bored at home and without homework, which won't be for much longer anyway.
Next week we will be getting onto things that I haven't investigated too much on my own yet (PBwiki), so I think I will have a better appreciation now that I will be moving at the appropriate pace. And now that this post will catch me up on the blogging side of it, I must get around to setting aside a designated time for me to blog and investigate the technologies involved with this programme. I think I will use my 23 Things session for the "playing around" side of it, then maybe set aside some time on a Friday afternoon to blog about my week with the technology (my session is on the Tuesday, so I will have had a few days to come up with some opinions of it).
I have been enjoying seeing everyone else's blog entries for this programme. It's very interesting to see the different styles of so many people in the same profession - just one of the many things I love about library people. Especially here at Murdoch and other University Libraries - there is an entire world in this one place and an entire set of diversities to fill it.
Friday, October 5, 2007
Week 3 - Belated
Yes, this just means that I will need to reflect on something to do with the programme again early next week.
I've actually gotten quite into a lot of things to do with this project. Thanks to Groucho Marx's Dog, I now have a Firefox Add-on for my Google Reader which I've found quite handy. When I'm at home I have three Firefox windows and over thirty tabs open on the same pages so I am not constantly having to revisit sites that I use often, so in that instance I can actually see in the tab title if there are unread items (or just click on the tab and glance at the page itself). But at work I find that Firefox can easily get too cluttered (as I am always having to open and close new items) so it's been quite useful to have a small, unobtrusive tool telling me that something awaits me via RSS...
Some other things that have intrigued me have been the more "social" items such as Twitter and Facebook. I have embarked on these on my own however, so I will need to create new ones at the appropriate time for work purposes. But it does interest me to think on how Murdoch could use these tools. I'm not certain at this point that I could see a decent use for Twitter, but as I have once again rushed ahead of myself, I will reserve judgment on that until the week we are actually meant to be looking at it.
Anyway, so I have subscribed to everyone's 23 Things blogs, LibrariesInteract.info and Flickr accounts (both Murdoch's and the 365libs Project), but my ICanHasCheezburger hasn't worked, so I think I may have to go back at some point and make sure I've subscribed to the right thing. I briefly subscribed to a couple of interesting things on the list that Kathryn provided, but was instantly overwhelmed at the number of new items that sprang up overnight, so I have removed those and kept it simple.
I think that would have to be my main advice to those out there who are finding it hard to keep up with their subscriptions: Just start off on the basic, even if it means that you aren't subscribed to the more interesting things. You won't like this technology if it stresses you out :-P
I've actually gotten quite into a lot of things to do with this project. Thanks to Groucho Marx's Dog, I now have a Firefox Add-on for my Google Reader which I've found quite handy. When I'm at home I have three Firefox windows and over thirty tabs open on the same pages so I am not constantly having to revisit sites that I use often, so in that instance I can actually see in the tab title if there are unread items (or just click on the tab and glance at the page itself). But at work I find that Firefox can easily get too cluttered (as I am always having to open and close new items) so it's been quite useful to have a small, unobtrusive tool telling me that something awaits me via RSS...
Some other things that have intrigued me have been the more "social" items such as Twitter and Facebook. I have embarked on these on my own however, so I will need to create new ones at the appropriate time for work purposes. But it does interest me to think on how Murdoch could use these tools. I'm not certain at this point that I could see a decent use for Twitter, but as I have once again rushed ahead of myself, I will reserve judgment on that until the week we are actually meant to be looking at it.
Anyway, so I have subscribed to everyone's 23 Things blogs, LibrariesInteract.info and Flickr accounts (both Murdoch's and the 365libs Project), but my ICanHasCheezburger hasn't worked, so I think I may have to go back at some point and make sure I've subscribed to the right thing. I briefly subscribed to a couple of interesting things on the list that Kathryn provided, but was instantly overwhelmed at the number of new items that sprang up overnight, so I have removed those and kept it simple.
I think that would have to be my main advice to those out there who are finding it hard to keep up with their subscriptions: Just start off on the basic, even if it means that you aren't subscribed to the more interesting things. You won't like this technology if it stresses you out :-P
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