Task 14

Hello all

The biggest differences in this task was in the responses to the searches. Blog posts resulted in mostly informative information, whereas in tags and search blogs, it was more like reviews. I can't say there were any great surprises but you can get rather bogged down with info. I watched a video for all of 1 minute only because I was surprised there was one.

There is just way to much info 'out there' and at the moment I think I'm just overloaded with WWW stuff. I also think that as a research tool, the Web is just making things a little more complicated. I seem to be spending more time learning the ropes than acturally researching. Never mind.

Cheers All

Task 13

Woo Hoo, over half way!
Delicious was great. I'm impressed. All those times when I've lost my favourites. sooo frustrating. I didn't join but if I intend to travel or change my computer, I will probably create a page. Intersting to visit some other people's saved places.

Cheers

Task 12

Hey there
Another fun one. Again, I wish I had more time to enjoy. I did listen to a couple minutes of P.G. Wodehouse's 'Death at the Excelsior'. It's good to know that whenever I decide to retire (not for a long while yet) I'll never be bored. Well onto the next...
See ya

Task 11

Hello All
I liked this one. Books that I added to my library are 'Vampires in their Own Words' and 'The Cowboy and the Vampire'. This will be a great one to revisit. Wish I had time to actually read them.

Cheers

Task 10

Hello

Oh yeah, another account. This time it's really simple and quite fun. I would like to go back again to this one cause I am an avid reader. This is also a great research site for anyone doing research on a specific author/title. Here's my page.

http://www.librarything.com/home/j.lit

Well that's it for me today.
Cheers
J

Task 9

Hello again
I used the Technorati search tool for this exercise. It was fairly easy to use. Then surprise, surprise, I had to create another account. This time with Digg. They were real quick sending back an email so I could just power on from there. I subcribed to any feeds with Libraries Australia as the search term.
Just for a little fun for myself, I also wanted feeds for 'purple boots'.
I do know that RSS is quite useful but again, I just don't want to be bogged down with unnecessary emails.

Well, onto the next one.

Cheers
J

Task 8

Hello everyone,

Glad to see a couple more online. So onto task eight...sigh

Well that was very interesting. There were no links on this tutorial. Nevertheless, I decided to teach myself and found useful directions. I am only suscribing to one feed as I am already on a list and there are one or two collegues who include me on lists. I really don't want to recieve any more emails during the working day.

The feed I subcribed to is Australian Screen at http://australianscreen.com.au/feeds/latest/

Task 7: Techno Stuff, looking at other blogs

Hello there
I’m not really that much into techno gear…at least not the contemporary type. Even when I read ‘Librarian Blues’ blog about VCRs and PVRs, I started to go cross-eyed. When I want to buy something new, well, I have young adult kids to help with that. I’m not a complete Luddite though, I love to use new technology but I just don’t want to know all the details. Just show me how to work it and I’m happy. I am interested in the development of technology however. At present I have the good fortune to be working on issues of The Australian Journal from the 1920s. So rather than attempt to talk about ‘modern’ technology and embarrass myself, I thought I would share my favourite security technologies invented in the 1920s. Both inventions were used in crime prevention for Pharmacies. The first is quite reasonable: If a burglar entered the premises, the clerk would flick a switch under the counter and a sign made up of light bulbs and spelling out the word ‘police’ would light up outside. Sounds reasonable to me. The next one is a great lesson in stupid. In this instance, the pharmacist/sales clerk would wear a handgun which was strapped in under the arm. Some kind of wire/spring mechanism was attached to the trigger. The idea was that when the robber shouted ‘stick-em-up’, the pharmacist would lift his arms up and the gun would pop out at just the right height (apparently) and shoot the thief. I do hope no-one asked him/her to reach up and get something off a high shelf.

Cheers

Picasa

Hello again. Fortunately I already have a Picasa album from my work on pulp fiction. Take a look if you like.http://picasaweb.google.com/home

Cheers
J

Flickr

Wow. There were are a few accounts to remember now. And not all will accept the same account names. A big thanks to Joan K for the wonderful photo she let me 'borrow'. My flickr name is j.lit1 if anyone wants to place me in a group.

Cheers

J

Hello all
I've just completed three of the tasks and am about to add my 'name' to the progress chart then I can 'cross' off the tasks.
I've listened to the 71/2 habits clip and I suppose the best bit of advise was 'view problems as challanges'. Hmmmm...I created this blog so I guess that's one problem out of the way.

Cheers
J

Testing

This is just a test. Please ignore any further rambling.