Twitterbug

Today when I was on the Reference desk a borrower asked me if I knew anything about Twitter!! Well I said YES of course and was able to tell her all about it, including logging into my account and showing her what I had written and advising her how to create an account.
It gave me a real buzz and I told her I had only just learnt about Twitter. She was very gracious and explained to me that one of her closest friends is very hard to keep in touch with because she travels endlessly and only communicates online. Her friend asked her to join Twitter, and even though she might not want to have lots of followers at least she can log on occasionally, see what her friend is up to and send her a message.
Dancing Queen

RSS and Bloglines

Well I've finally managed to add RSS feeds to my blog. I created an account with bloglines and I also used Google Reader. It would be nice if all of the feeds you added to bloglines could just be transferred to your blog with one click!!! I'm going to regularly read the feeds that I've added here and on my bloglines. I'm particularly looking for bestsellers and new titles but most of the blogs appear to be from the US. I've added First Tuesday Book Club which includes a video link to the current episode and Publishers Weekly: best sellers news. I think the public would benefit from having access to these RSS feeds on our library website or on a library blog.

I like the Powerhouse Museum’s Photo of the Day blog, however I still prefer to 'browse' FLICKR to look for photos. There are blogs for So you think you can dance 2009 (US version) which has just started in the US, however I want to wait until it is aired here before I add the RSS feed so I don't know who wins in advance.
Dancing Queen

Social networking OR Facebook vs Twitter

I've been using Facebook for almost a year now and I'm sort of obsessed. I see it as a way to catch up with old friends. I've caught up with a lot of friends and non friends from primary school from Tewantin State School from the seventies. Its been great and we even had a reunion of people who had lived in Noosa for a long time last year that was organised by Facebook (FB). I've also found (or they have found me) old friends that I have lost touch with and probably would never have seen again. I look at it this way, I've got 96 friends on FB who I would never have time to catch up with. At least you get to see what they are up to and look at photos of their life, and send them the odd message or comment. I have an American friend who was very hard to keep in touch with when we only had email. Now that we are both on FB it is much easier. It doesn't stop me socialising in person with my friends but it helps catch up with others.
On FB you can add status updates as often as you like to let people know what you are thinking or goind. Twitter appears to be like one neverending status update or 'tweet' as they call them.
You have probably noticed from my blog that I'm a 'visual' person which is why I like Facebook and the blog as you can illustrate what you say with a photo. It was very interesting to read on the SLQ blog: 5 impressive mashups of Twitter & Flickr:
http://mashable.com/2009/05/11/twitter-flickr-mashups/
It looks like a lot of work has gone into meshing Twitter & Flickr so it is more like a blog or FB. Flickr is owned by Yahoo, not sure who FB is owned by but I'd say they are competing against each other.
A lot of people are starting to talk about Twitter, although FB is becoming more popular every day. I didn't like My Space, I'm not sure if it is losing popularity, but I don't know anyone who has an account.
I will write more when I find someone to tweet!
Dancing Queen

Twitter

Its not much fun if I just 'tweet' myself, is there anyone out there I can follow so I can practice using this, Wheelgirl what is your URL???
My username is twittingloud.

Wikis

Well I'm already familiar with Wikis as our library has its own wiki and I've used Wikipedia. Most universities don't approve of students citing Wikipedia. When I was still studying it was in its early days, however there is so much more information on there now. I am often directed to Wikipedia from Google when searching for titles in a fiction series that we do not have on our catalogue.

Of the 3 wikis you asked us to 'discover' I like SLQ's own: Slq library 2.0: Emerging Media and New Technology Wiki. I found this useful for the next test drive lesson on social networking and I've bookmarked it here at home so I can return to it at a later date.
Howzat? There was nothing about dancing or music or photography in my blog, oops...think again.
Dancing Queen:)

Blue Ice

Blue Ice
Originally uploaded by He Who Must Be Named

I just adore this photo SOOOOO much I had to blog it: yes I'm stil stuck on FLICKR haven't moved on to Wikis. I'm going to add my best Alaskan photos and wanted to see what others had posted. I love this because I just LOVE blue and blue and brown together is gorgeous and ALASKA is gorgeous, this is to die for!
Dancing Queen

Oh Behave!

Well I love FLICKR so much I can get past it to do the next testdrive lesson, but I promise I will soon. There are so many good photos on there, I'm going to put some of my travel photos on there, so I've been spending my time thinking about that. I'm also half way through Breaking dawn by Stephenie Meyer and I can put it down, so I'm hoping to have it finished tonight.
I will move on to the Wiki lesson soon,
watch this space!
Dancing Queen