#10 Video Sharing Websites - YouTube

LOC videos are so cool! Amazing old footage of horse drawn fire 'truck's, baton twirling athlete and bucking broncos in 1890s.

My use of youtube is mostly for music clips and some how-to tutorials, and also funny clips of cats and dogs. can't help myself there, sorry.

Teachertube doesn't interest me, but I may recommend it to a couple of friends in the industry.

Oh! Too funny, I just found this on Science Hack, just the name of it grabbed my attention, and the still shot clinched it. I'm pretty sure I searched for 'tomato plant' (yes very exciting) and this came up:

Hexapod Dance Competition - Hagenberg/Austria

Yes, little dancing robots. If you skip forward to the 1 minute mark, I'm pretty sure that guy is doing the twist!!

#9 Flickr

Picture Australia have an initiative where you can download public domain images and mash them up and submit to a flickr group. This is interesting, and I check that out further to see what they've come up with and if any SLV images have been used...

Rossco ( Image Focus Australia )

I have found on the desk already that when searching PictureAustralia, images from flickr appear. It can be useful to demonstrate more contemporary documentary images, as opposed to the historical archived images.

The most fun to be had on flickr is the drawing tool where you use something like MS Paint and do a drawing or just mark some colour and then flickr matches its results to your drawing. Have not thought of a real life use for this apart from fun.

Optional Exercise: Technorati

Just having a quick peek at Technorati. I don't love it yet. Searched for 'breakfast melbourne' and didn't get anything of real use. Hoping to find something like the breakfastout blog, which is my handy go to guide on the weekend. and it picked out individual posts in blogs rather than blogs on that subject. okay, so refined search to just blogs, not posts...

It didn't seem to find any breakfast blogs, not that I could tell from the brief summary. Also didn't come up with the one I had in my head. So, based on that one attempt I don't think I would use this! Happy to just use google, or have things recommended to me in google reader.

# 8 Catalogue your own books with Library Thing

i heart librarything.

my dad keeps buying books he's already got, then getting half way through and realising. also he's right into the grisham thrillers etc and no one else knows what he's got or what to buy as presents. now he catalogues them and we can check his account for ideas.

i found that one of my favourite books ever, has only one other person registered who owns it.

Wrongboy's history of the Earth by Will Bishop-Threenames, er, Will Bishop-Stevens.

Stunning wit and illustrations, and he is not a shoddy wobbler.

#7 Tagging and Del.icio.us

we'll be tagging soon apparently. tagging and reviewing.

i've heard of uni students tagging book records with their subject names which is a bit clever.

it could allow for more modern terms to be included by patrons. but, it seems that it needs a great deal of involvement and participation from many people to be of use.

i can see the benefits of delicious but i haven't used it. i tend to collect websites through either rss or through the google notebook program where you can paste urls and then write notes about them. or i just remember them. or google back to them.

having just started reading Kerry Greenwood's books, I found that people have been tagging away at Yarra Plenty...

#6 Podcasts

The term vodcast doesn't seem to have taken off.
Pod-vod casting is not something i've gotten into yet.

just managed to play one nice and loud and scarily that had cross voices. hopefully that was just my fault and slv's independent type podcast is not cracked.

this might be good, might be able to get some foreign language ones onto the ipod or something interesting
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turns out you can, and some of them are free.

exhibition companion audio is very popular, library is currently using this, great.

#5 RSS

RSS is rather addictive. I had a million blog subscriptions and had to give them up for the chore of 'marking all as read'. The only problem is that you lose touch with the actual blog and its comments and it's not nearly as pretty to look at because of it being text based. although you don't get all the ads that can appear on people's blogs. i particularly like drooling over foodie blogs and the threethousand.com(.au?) website is great for melb events and art openings which i would never know about otherwise. have also been known to take google reader up on it's suggested sites, it does get quite clever with your interests. libraries could easily get involved with advertising their events, or new acquisitions in this way, they only need to be very quick entries and its an speedy way to get the info out there.