what about week 9

hey I wanted to play with mashups so I skipped week 9 but will complete it in the next day or 2.
mashups are fun !

here is a link to my version of a trading card game card - based on a Magic card & yes she's my relief worker and she's definitely Magic

http://flickr.com/photos/krazykat_aus/2451580367/?addedcomment=1#comment72157604792984536

better quit now as it's 2.15 am and I have to go to work today

week 8 - slamming the boards

well, maybe I looked at the wrong sites for examples of questions (wikianswers and yahoo 7). I'm afraid I put most of the questions from these 2 sites in the same category as chat sites. An almost total waste of time. (Only time I went on chat forum it was full of computer speak 'where u from, asl etc' same thing over and over. I have observed children in my little branch library lie about everything in order to disguise their real age etc so I don't feel that you would have any confidence in anything that was said. I did answer a question from each of these 2 sites ' a flower starting with a' and the name of an athlete starting with 'u'. It amazes me that instead of typing questions into the search engine, that anyone would waste their time posting a frivolous question to a question board (example 'What is the best excersice to get a 2 pack stomach?' and 'How much money will you need for a trip across the US? ' or even 'How do you get phone numbers from boys?' or' Dog breads that start with the letter U?' or ' What is the structure of tetraiodobistriphenylphosphinetinIV? ' or Is David Beckham Happy in The USA?'. I thought that the librarians wiki was interesting but they must have searched really hard to find decent questions to answer. A better use of time would be to teach people better search techniques so that they can do research for themselves.
I think that it would be good to have a non technical version in the local library. A corkboard and blank cards where questions of interest can be posted along with their answers (subject to a moderator vetting posted questions) could provide a whimsical note of interest. When the librarians find an answer in a book, that book could be featured.

week 7 - Tagging, folksonomies, del.icio.us & LibraryThing

Just a short post will add more tomorrow as I left my notes at work (not that I had time to do anything at work - but I took the notes out of my wallet and sat them on my counter and that was it). Just added a widget for librarything search and a link to my librarything catalogue. Tried to add the widget yesterday but it didn't work. I must have clicked on the right thing today as it is there now. Maybe I am learning things! My school computer course is progressing well, although I didn't get anything done in the school holidays because I was concentrating on my library computer course lol. It took what little spare time I had to work my way through week 7. It seems as though week 8 will not be as taxing. Just as well because now my brother in law (B-I-L) is in hospital as well and has traded places with M-I-L. She has come back to Lithgow hospital and B-I-L is has gone to intensive care at Nepean. They literally traded places in the ambulance.

testing 123 -

just thought the plain old text was a bit bland & having been inspired by Di - here is my attempt at something different -

except that the image uploader is having problems and therefore there is no added picture.

Here is the link to my delicious account http://del.icio.us/krazykat_aus
I uploaded my favourites from my computer and deleted generic Windows links etc until it was just my own faves. I bundle tagged Family history links which were all in a sub folder in my favourites and created a new bundle for Taekwondo topics.

I have been exploring delicious tonight. I've set up an account and exported and edited my favourites from my computer onto delicious. I have tagged a couple of taekwondo sites and set up 2 bundles. I think creating a link tonight is a bit much lol. It is 1 am and I am going to visit MIL in Nepean in the morning so that is enough homework for now. She has had what amounts to an artificial shoulder joint replacement as the damage to her arm was too great to heal on it's own. I will be in Kingswood Thursday, Ingleburn Friday for my daughter's birthday and Dapto Saturday for a memorial service for my Aunty Heather. In between I will be returning to home with 2 or 3 hours travelling time each way. Last Sunday was my oldest son's birthday and Tuesday was my niece's birthday. Thursday is also my sister's 32nd wedding anniversary (she got married the same year as I did) - hope I remember to ring her. My colleague/friend Di has been playing with mashups and I hope to catch up to her soon as it looks like a ton of fun.

week 6 videos

It's taken me a while to get to this but only because I have had absolutely no spare time. Last Wednesday my M-I-L fell and broke her humerus just below the ball socket on her right (dominant arm). She is 88 and waiting at Nepean for the go ahead for an op to pin it in place (or risk losing the use of the arm)
I enjoyed using youtube and google video. I have been using youtube for some time but not in any organised way - mainly when my sons recommend some funny sites to look at. The CNNN crew have some verrry interrresting questions that they asked Americans (such as name a country starting with the letter U). I have had very little use of Google videos and will admit to only just using the Google images feature (I am now a convert to images). I usually use a search engine called anzwers.com.au at work rather than Google. Had a look at all the places such as Kogarah that were recommended in the week 6 blurb. Beats me why someone would put a video of Haseeb from Kogarah (vacuuming) on the site but I may have missed the joke as the language spoken was not English. I enjoyed such videos as Olive Riley returns to Broken Hill and the book reviews by some of the kids. Some of the puppet videos were bland - too much of the puppet movements were the same thing over and over. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to a couple of author presentations from Mosman and will undoubtedly return and watch some more. I watched half Tim Bowden's talk and all of Peter Moore's talk. I have been a fan of Peter's since reading Vroom with a View. I would dearly love to emulate him and ride a Vespa throughout the countryside but instead of Italy/Tuscany I would love to explore more of Australia that way.
I have embedded a video of OK Go on their treadmills - very clever. I have edited twice because I tried ticking a box for most watched videos and the featured thumbnails of the top 4 videos keep changing. I may be doing this incorrectly but will keep playing with it until it does what I want.
I can see a use for video clips of such things as staff training and perhaps it would be good to present clips of the mini exhibitions that are held in the local history section of the main library. Book reviews would be ok but it would be easier given our limited time & resources to simply link to reviews produced by other libraries. If our library had a blog then featuring links or embedding videos would be a most useful tool.