Podcasting

Podcasting. It's a bit of a funny word isn't it? I think so anyway. I know how to poscast, I even found things that I may like to podcast, however I have nothing to listen to my podcast on! I rarely spend longer than 5-10 minutes in my car (alone and not listeniong to either the Wiggles or High School Musical Soundtrack!) and I am trying to learn to speak French in that time - obviously that is going VERY VERY slowly.

As for the Library, what would we podcast?!?!?!? Rules on how to treat a book or how to use manners in the library? I don't think we'd get many subscribers. We could podcast "storeytime" or "Babies Books and Rhymes" - as long as it wasn't my voice on it of course!!!!

Although i do not podcast, I do think that they are a great idea. If I caught the bus I think I would be podcasting all the time! Here is a podcasting link to a "Lano and Woodley" comedy sketch that I found.

Go on, download it - you know you want to!!!!

triplej.abc.net.au/todaytoday

Answer Boards... What A Great Idea!

Love the idea of answer boards, I am sure that overall it is very helpful and is somewhat like our "Ask a Librarian". I did notice as I was searching through the Yahoo Answers page that there are a lot of "silly" questions asked......

Delicious......

Today I learnt all about del.icio.us seems a bit like a lot of extra work, but if you are on differnet computers all the time where you don't have a "favourites" folder it is probably a good idea. I do admit, I did subscribe to the new book reviews so that each month I will get an email with reviews of HEAPS and HEAPS of new releases.

My Babies

Here is a pic of my little babies - Walter is now 7 and a half ( - a very important half!) and Dean who is 2 and a half!

The Adventures of Super Librarian....

Whilst learning about online videos in Google Movies and You Tube, I stumbled accross this part funny, part tragic commercial for.. (da da daaaaaaa.....)
SUPER LIBRARIAN. You must check it out!

Hint: Just click on the title "The Adventures of Super Librarian" and it will take you to the "You Tube" video.

And now I am Wiki-ing!!!

Another Day, Another 23 Things!

Well, not really, just one of the 23 things and now I now all about the world of Wiki's (I think anyway). I checked out the Brisbane Wiki, Forest Lake (the beautiful suburb in which I live in Brisbane - see photo above) - even made a change to this, although not a big one, and last but not least I checked out the Brisbane Council Library Services Wiki. Previously I was under the impression that anyone,m anywhere could edit and change a Wiki, although that is true they are regulated often and wrong information is taken back out.

What's next..... mmmm video's online.... bring it on.....

RSS... Really Spiffy Stuff.... or Real Simple Syndication?

So, finally I have conquered the world of RSS (or Real Simple Syndication). Now that I have done this section twice (as I just didn't get it the first time), it would seem that it is perhaps "simple" as the name suggests. Anyway, I have attached a link to the Powerhouse Museum's Image of the Day. These are generally pretty cool. I have being looking on a daily basis for the last week.

A really well set up blog that belongs to Helene Blowers is
http://librarybytes.com/

Check that one out when you can, I recommend it!

RSS and newsreaders are a great idea to add to your blog, you can keep up-to-date with the fast paced moving world around you. I think it is a great idea for Libraries to add these RSS feeds to their websites for community knowlegde as well. In my bloglines page, I added The Dilbert Daily Strip (Comic), The daily astrology for Taurus, The Powerhouse Museum, Venture Blogs and Lessig Blog.