Catch up time.

So glad to have some time to catch up, I think I hit the 23Things wall last week and came to a dead stop! Will get back to you on LibraryThing and Creative Commons when I've recovered.

My story so far...

I've opened ssooo many accounts in the last couple of weeks, my little blue book has become a life saver, I can't go anywhere without it! For the most part I've used my gmail account and variations of my gmail password in an effort to keep it all in check, but for some reason I couldn't sign up to Delicious with my gmail account, even though it gave me the option to, so now I have a ymail account as well.


I've become a blogging convert. I've learnt how to set up a blog, edit and delete posts. How to add links, images and video. I've also figured out how to time release a post, so that it is published on a certain date - not bad for someone who knew very little about the workings of a blog a couple of weeks ago!

Time is moving on quickly though, and I haven't gone back to any of the social bookmarking sites that I set up, but I will when I have more time... we could use it as a way of sharing articles and information to do with the library without clogging up the email. I use Firefox at home and found that using Diggo was much simpler with Firefox shortcuts, you can capture a page, or you can mark it to read later - great stuff when you come across info that will be good for your studies! Subscribing to Google Reader and various RSS feeds was doddle, probably because they weren't new to me!

Creating the comic strip has been great fun, there is so much you can do with Bitstrip and it is all free!!! You can create you own scenes and characters - down to their hair and clothes, you can share your scenes and characters or you can keep them all to yourself. I had to create the 'library' scene from scratch because there wasn't one, my dialogue and humour are a bit hit and miss but I'm working on it!!

So, I've created clouds, tags, bookmarks, blogs, links, a comic strip and lots of other stuff, I've even copied and pasted some HTML into my blog template to show an animated tag cloud of my blog labels - phew that was a bit scary (saved my template first just in case I messed everything up). The more labels and tags you use the better the cloud.

RSS feeds...last words

Feeds are pretty much everywhere nowadays, nearly every site you access has them - even the comic strip of the adventures of the Anonymous Librarian has an RSS feed.

It seems to me that everything is being geared towards you owning that one piece of mobile technology - whether it be an ipad, smartphone etc. to keep us instantly updated, mind you I'm not sure whether that's such a good thing!

Week 3 in the BBL

Week 3 already!

RSS feeds, they are what they say they are! Simple to set up, simple to use. I signed up to Google Reader a long time ago, and subscribe to a large number of feeds already, some professionally and some personally. You can add the 'Next' button to your bookmarks toolbar so you have instant access to all your subscribed feeds. Google Reader also allows you to bundle your subscriptions, label the bundle and also add a 'Next (bundle label)' to your bookmarks toolbar. I find this so handy, click the button and instant updated info!

Wordle, wordle, wordle

Not mine unfortunately!

I just love Wordle! It was great fun playing around with it! Creating the cloud was very easy, copying and pasting the URL also easy.
Tried Tagul as well, this programme is a bit more complicated, but just as much fun!

Delicious...aaahhh

I've had another look around Delicious and I must admit it is starting to grow on me, the advantages of having all my fav sites bookmarked in one place, outweigh the 'clunkiness'. My wandering tags and bookmarks seem to have found their way home aswell! It's not a very pretty site, a bit harsh and busy on the eye, but you can't have everything.

If you would like to check out my bookmarks, go to the Delicious SPD page. I tagged an interesting article about the New York Public Library and also another article about Library 3.0!!!!

Still working on the clouds...
Sunny Clouds courtesy of www.freeimages.co.uk 

Week 2 in the BBL

Delicious...hhmmmmm!!


Signed up to Delicious, bookmarked a few sites, applied a few tags all fairly straightforward, but I don't think I like it. It feels a bit 'clunky' and while I can see an application for its use in a library environment, as a free spirited catalogue/subject portal perhaps, I know I won't use it much at home.



I followed the instructions to share my bookmarks with twentythreethingsspd, but they seem to have wandered off somewhere, hopefully they will turn up if not I will try it again later.

tag: lost sheep

I will check out a few more social bookmarking sites and report back.