I love YouTube, I find all sorts of lovely and wonderful surprises each time I visit! Firstly I searched for lego and played around with the Indiana Jones lego game, then I searched for Kogarah Library and came across a live band performance in the library, lastly Liverpool Plains brought me a Harvesting 2006 video. All good
Next I did the same at Google Video. This time I noted the difference between a search using "all viedos" and one using "videos hosted by google". The first had hits with YouTube and many others, the second was a much smaller result.
So which were my favourite videos? Well all kids love lego so I couldn't go past Indiana Jones:
& Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
As a finale though I came across Paul McDermott & Fiona Horne performing Shut Up/Kiss Me live.
Like I said, all good.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Friday, March 7, 2008
Cool wiki moment
I just went to the RA wiki and thought I'd check out a few of the pages and noticed that the page for Genre Lists has a link to Crime authors, but not to any of the other genre lists I know are there. Playing around with this I realised that it is the tags which link these pages together and ensure that they appear at the bottom of the others' pages. So then I went through and put in relevant tags in Medieval Mysteries, Paranormal Romance, and Genre Lists which reflected each other and ensured that they linked. This way no matter what genre page I am on I can get to the others quickly and easily within the page rather than from the left side menu.
The tags are the key - I guess that's my own little epiphany for the day
The tags are the key - I guess that's my own little epiphany for the day
Week 5 - Wikis .... Explore (part 2)
Okay, got my invite key to the Learning 2.0 wiki and edited a few pages. I liked answering the questions as they got me to really think about what I do, why I do it, and how I would talk about it to others who've got no idea what being a Librarian is all about. To make my answers distinguishable from others I changed the colour of the text and signed it CatyJ.
Yep, fun.
Yep, fun.
Week 5 - Wikis ..... Adventure
As I'm currently living in Grafton I jumped over to the Wikipedia entry for Grafton and was left thinking hmmmm, someone has gone in and done a very good job here already so then I decided to find entries for every town I have ever lived in (bound to be quite an adventure as I'm rather prone to wander...!).
Anyway, here goes......
Elanora Heights ; Narara ; Herons Creek/Kendall ; Griffith University / Nathan / Mt Gravatt ; Maroubra ; Clovelly ; Coogee ; Bronte ; Randwick ; Narrabri ; Bellata ; Mount Victoria/Blue Mountains ; Walgett ; Collarenebri; Tamworth/Calala/Tintinhull; Grafton .
Whew! What a trip.
I was quite curious to see if there was an entry for Herons Creek as this is a tiny village just north of Kendall & Kew and the closest place of habitation to the farm I grew up on. Herons Creek has a timber mill which serves the local industry - many is the time a timber jinker has given me a lift home from the bus stop out on the highway! Thinking about it though and really taking a solid look at what is on Wikipedia as far as towns and cities go, most of this information is provided by clever Councils/LGAs seeking to establish an online informational link for people who want to know about that place. For the Port Macquarie-Hastings Shire Council, their wikipedia pages detail the main towns and industry within the area from a Council-based tourism point of view. A little place like Herons Creek is off the map and simply doesn't cut it as a tourist destination - I have to admit to being quite happy when I left the area - so doesn't get a mention. Which I guess brings me around to the point that you really need to think carefully about what you're putting out there on the web. Getting everything and anything out there is not necessarily a good thing, after all what are we trying to achieve by doing this?
So, should I add a page to Wikipedia about Herons Creek? Maybe. But I think that if I did I would focus on the industry side of things and link it to the Timber Industry and perhaps also the historical angle for the Hastings area with a neat tie in to Wauchope and TimberTown rather than to the LGA.
Anyway, here goes......
Elanora Heights ; Narara ; Herons Creek/Kendall ; Griffith University / Nathan / Mt Gravatt ; Maroubra ; Clovelly ; Coogee ; Bronte ; Randwick ; Narrabri ; Bellata ; Mount Victoria/Blue Mountains ; Walgett ; Collarenebri; Tamworth/Calala/Tintinhull; Grafton .
Whew! What a trip.
I was quite curious to see if there was an entry for Herons Creek as this is a tiny village just north of Kendall & Kew and the closest place of habitation to the farm I grew up on. Herons Creek has a timber mill which serves the local industry - many is the time a timber jinker has given me a lift home from the bus stop out on the highway! Thinking about it though and really taking a solid look at what is on Wikipedia as far as towns and cities go, most of this information is provided by clever Councils/LGAs seeking to establish an online informational link for people who want to know about that place. For the Port Macquarie-Hastings Shire Council, their wikipedia pages detail the main towns and industry within the area from a Council-based tourism point of view. A little place like Herons Creek is off the map and simply doesn't cut it as a tourist destination - I have to admit to being quite happy when I left the area - so doesn't get a mention. Which I guess brings me around to the point that you really need to think carefully about what you're putting out there on the web. Getting everything and anything out there is not necessarily a good thing, after all what are we trying to achieve by doing this?
So, should I add a page to Wikipedia about Herons Creek? Maybe. But I think that if I did I would focus on the industry side of things and link it to the Timber Industry and perhaps also the historical angle for the Hastings area with a neat tie in to Wauchope and TimberTown rather than to the LGA.
Week 5 - Wikis .... Explore
I've had a quick look at the new Learning 2.0 wiki and ran through the pbwiki tour, now I'm just waiting for the invite key so I can go in and play. The thing that has struck me most this morning is that whilst each of the wikis I've looked at is essentially different they are also essentially the same so though the look of one is so different to another I feel reasonably confident about editing the Learning 2.0 pbwiki simply becasue I have already played around in Wikipedia and the Readers Advsiory wiki (which uses Wetpaint).
Week 5 - Wikis ....Discover
After watching the video clip (great for graphically providing an idiot-proof version of what is a wiki and why they are good to use) and reading through the Wikipedia entry, I then checked out the following wikis -
Wisconsin Heritage Wiki, the full Library Success: A best practices wiki, Book Lovers Wiki at the Princeton Public Library, and Wookieepedia.
I loved Wookieepedia - it was bright, fun and heh it's Star Wars so it can't go wrong, it's advantage is that the subject matter alone is what inspires contribution and collaboration; The Winsconsin Heritage Wiki is very much a user-based rather than visitor-based wiki and I have to admit I got a little lost; I liked the Library Success wiki because it used the simple format that is key to Wikipedia's success - after a brief intro to the topic there is a contents list which quickly shows you what you will find and will also take you straight there - easy to use for longtime players and the new. Lastly I visited the Book Lovers wiki, no guff just straight into what the wiki is all about with a clear concise and positive review about a book about toilets and plumbing (!). The arrangement of the page led me to be instantly interested and then keen to expliore the rest of the page which I could easily and readily do. Finally, and possibly more important from a social networking angle - I felt welcomed.
Now to explore ..............
Wisconsin Heritage Wiki, the full Library Success: A best practices wiki, Book Lovers Wiki at the Princeton Public Library, and Wookieepedia.
I loved Wookieepedia - it was bright, fun and heh it's Star Wars so it can't go wrong, it's advantage is that the subject matter alone is what inspires contribution and collaboration; The Winsconsin Heritage Wiki is very much a user-based rather than visitor-based wiki and I have to admit I got a little lost; I liked the Library Success wiki because it used the simple format that is key to Wikipedia's success - after a brief intro to the topic there is a contents list which quickly shows you what you will find and will also take you straight there - easy to use for longtime players and the new. Lastly I visited the Book Lovers wiki, no guff just straight into what the wiki is all about with a clear concise and positive review about a book about toilets and plumbing (!). The arrangement of the page led me to be instantly interested and then keen to expliore the rest of the page which I could easily and readily do. Finally, and possibly more important from a social networking angle - I felt welcomed.
Now to explore ..............
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Diffusion vs. concentration
Lorcan Dempsey's blogpost - The Two Ways of Web 2.0 - discusses the diffusion and concentration of Web 2.0. I was particularly struck by his final comments:-
"When we discuss Web 2.0, there is a temptation to think about blogs and wikis, RSS and a Facebook application, and to stop there. There is also some useful thinking about how to expose web services or data in ways that they can be remixed into other applications. However, Web 2.0 is also about concentration, concentration of data, of users and of communications. We need also to think about how libraries reconfigure services in an environment of network level gravitational hubs, driven by network effects. This will involve greater concentration of library resources in various ways, and also - probably? - greater reliance on other web presences to deliver their services. "
"When we discuss Web 2.0, there is a temptation to think about blogs and wikis, RSS and a Facebook application, and to stop there. There is also some useful thinking about how to expose web services or data in ways that they can be remixed into other applications. However, Web 2.0 is also about concentration, concentration of data, of users and of communications. We need also to think about how libraries reconfigure services in an environment of network level gravitational hubs, driven by network effects. This will involve greater concentration of library resources in various ways, and also - probably? - greater reliance on other web presences to deliver their services. "
"work 20% differently, not 20% more..."
Ellen has just emailed this link around discussing changing work practices as a result of emerging web 2.0 technolgies and the rise of social media - http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2008/03/06/resourcing-for-social-media-social-media-cultural-communication-2008-conference/
Harper College Library
Pam sent me this link from WebJunction to Harper College's YouTube tour around the library. You can't help but smile........
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