Videos, or how to make time disappear really quickly

I fell for You Tube a while back and this clip is the reason why:
This song is from 1998 and the flatmate I was living with at the time owned the single after we both fell for the song on Good News Week. However, when we moved on our separate ways she of course took her CD with her (ah, the perils of share housing). And as it was only released on single it wasn't like I could go out and buy it years later. But thanks to the wonder that is You Tube I finally got to hear the song again. Sigh. And of course, since I discovered You Tube I haven't stopped.
But fancy using it for work purposes! To film author talks and storytime sessions and public events. Or providing library orientations, or lessons on how to use the catalogue. But, as others have noted, there are good (great even) clips. And then there are the not so good ones...

Adventures in wikiland

Aren't wikis fun? I must admit, I am one of those people who were dubious about the accuracy of Wikipedia (it all stems from those 4 years at uni where absolutely EVERY sentence I wrote had to have a citation (in the Harvard style, thank you very much) to a peer reviewed journal following it), so it was interesting to read arguments indicating that Wikipedia may be authoritative after all. And there is no place like the web to feed a Star Wars addiction (although perusing Wookieepedia (what a fabulous name!) just proves to me that too many post trilogy novels have been written, with things I can never approve of: Han and Leia's child would never turn to the dark side, what is with Chewie being killed off, and how many times can the Sith rise? Oh, and don't get me started on the prequels, and as for the Special Editions....but I digress. Wikis. That's what I am here to talk about. Not Star Wars.)
I liked the way Princeton Public Library incorporated a wiki into their summer reading. My library also asks for summer reading reviews, and runs a challenge for kids over the summer as well. We get the kidlets to submit their reviews on paper but perhaps they would enjoy adding to a wiki?
PS As noted before, on the computer I use every day all of the blogs are blocked and in order to view them I need to be on a different computer on a different network. As a result I haven't read as many as I would have liked. So thank you all for your interesting contributions to the NSW learning 2.0 wiki (which is not blocked) that I just spent a happy time reading. And yes, I did contribute as well.

RSSing

So I set up my account and added some feeds. And the next day I checked my account, realised I had been a bit too enthusiastic about adding feeds, so deleted some feeds. And then today, I checked my feeds (today the Powerhouse Museum photo of the day is a Red Kangaroo Paw - but then you all knew that, didn't you?), added a feed to my blog (I've finally gone on an "Adventure") and pondered whether it is useful technology. Conclusion: yes, it is useful to have one site where you check all your favourite sites in one go. Just don't get too excited and subscribe to so many feeds that it stops being convenient and starts becoming a chore. What sites did I pick? Book and film reviews (got to be useful for collection development, right?), words and quotes sites (to learn interesting words and how others have used them effectively), library sites (to see what others are doing), and news sites (so I can pretend to be well informed).

Doorways, or seaching through Flickr

Follow my titlelink to my Flickr image....Yes, it is a doorway (it's thematic). Who would have thought there were so many pictures of doorways (89616)? Much better than the results for my old home town, where most of the results were road signs indicating how many kilometres you were from somewhere more populated. Or a woolshed. It wasn't even that interesting a woolshed.
Good news though! There are no photos that I didn't know about of me on Flickr (at least none with my name in them).
Am I the only one who couldn't locate Blogger's photo upload tool? (Hence my use of the Titlelink, which I COULD figure out how to use). I have instucted my very computer literate friend and collegue to hurry up and do her blog, so she can help me.
And just an update regarding our IT situation. On Friday of Week 3 everything was perfect, all links worked and I was busy checking out everyone elses blogs (any by the way, to all those people who have all ready completed week 4, you are making me feel lazy!!!). By Tuesday Week 3 most of the blocks were back, everyones blogs were once again "harmful and stealthy" and our Queen had to think up new ways for us all to gain access. Fortunately we have the network that the staff use, and a network for the general library public. So guess which network I am on now...