Week 6 - Tagging etc

An interesting concept, tagging. Around here more commonly associated with Vivid markers, spray cans or little square sticky things with electronics in them.

Once I realised "tagging" was just another name for "keyword" - as in keyword searching - the whole concept began to have personal uses to recommend it.

My enormous file of photocopied recipes for example. Instead of searching for ever for just where did I put Jo Seagar's Beer bread recipe I could simply tag it. "Bread" would do but Bread and Beer would bring it up at once. Of course I would either have to scan them in to a database or maybe, and this appeals more, allocate each a code number (call number).

The same thing applies to my CD collection although that needs more thought.

To my mind the real trick to tagging would be to remember the tags used.

And I never found the Beer Bread recipe either!

Thought for this lesson (although not quite true)

"I like learning stuff like that. It's precise, pleasing and quite without use" (Joe Bennett)

Week Five - Wired World of Wiki

OK. Wikis. What can I say. The three Library blogs we were asked to look at were interesting. One is now just an archive, another is staff only password protected for updates, and the third, Library Success, requires permission to add to the blog.

Blogs where anyone can add or delete stuff will always be unreliable as reference tools. Unfortunately many people using internet believe everything they read on the theory that if some clever person has put the info into a blog it must be true. I suspect these are the same people who 'win' the Spanish lottery and happy send away their bank details!

Of the three library blogs looked at Library Success was the best for me. I may well revisit this site in the future.

Just had a quick look at weeh 6 - looks good. Must go now as this is all happening on the Learn.net.

Sammy and Bungy

Sammy and Bungy
Originally uploaded by grizabella2008

Two of my favourite people. This photo uploaded to the blog thanks to the magic of Flickr. What a cool site. When I have finished my Desk duty (yes, they do make me work) I shall have a play with the editing stuff. Catch you later.

Much, much later.

I had a go at loading PicNic, several goes in fact, but the site was so slow I gave up in frustration. I'm sure there are faster and better photo editing sites out there in cyberspace.

Week Three continues!

I finally got back into LibraryThing - Here is the link : http://www.librarything.com/home/grizabella2008

Now, please excuse me, I must Flickr off.

Week Three continues -

Playtime week. Not really my thing, playing on computers but Some of this was fun. I liked the lolcat generator thing. The cat in the planter is (was) Sammy, a much loved family member for many years.
Other entertaining stuff-
The acronym generator, where you put in a word and it generates the full title.(Acronym)
Alphabet soup word
Automatic poetry - every bit as good as the real thing! Makes you wonder, really.
The best so far by miles would be - Blackadder quote.
I'm sure there are many more, I have only got to the Bs as you can see.

LibraryThing

This is more like it!
I used LibraryThing to make a short list of some of the many books I would like to read but haven't as yet got round to.
At this point I was going to add the link to my LibraryThing but LT has come over all coy and refuses to let me sign in.

Thought for the week (last week of school holidays)

"Hell is empty and all it's devils are here" (Will S.) of course

Week Three - Playtime

Lesson Two - The RSS Thing

One of my friends -

I have decided each post will start with an amusing picture and end with an inspirational thought.

RSS - OK. At the beginning RSS gave me GBH of the brain and OOS (that's RSI for you older SSRs) of the fingers (just love these TLAs).
Thinking of TLAs. The human brain will always try to make sense of nonsensical stuff, we attempt to make a word out of letters. Which is why RSS is just crying out to be pronounced as arsss.

However, back to RSS. Once I finally got my head around it this turned out to be easier and more fun than I had anticipated. The ability to send to email is handy indeed.

I don't see myself personally using the blog bit but RSS - YES.

Thought for the week: -

"When you're up to your RSS in alligators it's hard to remember your primary function is to drain the swamp" (with thanks to my nephew Justin)