Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Official post 11 - playing with the PBWiki library wiki

So editing a wiki is pretty easy! I can see why people get worried about the quality of info u can find when its so so easy to edit. I went to our nice safe wiki sandbox area at https://manukaulearn.pbwiki.com/Favourite-Blogs and added my blog to the list....I may have been rude, cause I added it to the top...mwahahahaha! I was tired of always being at the bottom of the list, tee hee. I then went into https://manukaulearn.pbwiki.com/Favourite-Books and added a comic book related entry (go SiP!), this time I was more polite and added it to the bottom of the list.

Official post 10 - Wiki'ing

This was a slightly boring 'thing' to explore....I'm pretty familiar with using Wikipedia, as a tool it can be a really useful way of collecting lots of knowledge in one place. I've used it lots when looking at anything comic book related (authors/artists/particular titles), as the comic book industry and fans seemed to have wholeheartedly embraced wiki technology. I looked at the suggested library links, and found them very informative......but thats wiki's all over, informative, but just not all that attractive or fun. How could we use wiki's in libraries? As they are so useful for collecting information....I think they could be useful for creating staff resources, perhaps for collecting and sharing info for a project (eg RFID? instead of update emails, all the info could be put into a wiki for staff to check on?) It could be a fun tool to use with the public, maybe to build book lists on a theme? customers could edit it to add their suggestions?
Hmmm, interesting....
Visit http://comics.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page for an interesting comic book wiki

Official post 9 - my latest technological interests

Ahhh, the joys of technology! I feel pretty happy in the on-line environment, I spend lots of time social networking with friends on Facebook and Bebo (I prefer Facebook....each to their own right?) I also spend lots of time (perhaps a little too much time) playing an online roleplaying game called World of Warcraft (aka WoW).


If you want to know more about WoW visit http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/
My new most favourite thing in the world is my 8gig ipod nano. Its a thing of wonder indeed. Yes, it has taken me a while to join the ipod revolution.....but I'm here at last! I've been spending lots of time over the last few weeks adding songs to my itunes from cds, and making playlists. I got my ipod cause I was tired of the music at the gym....sometimes they take a while to put a new cd on, and sometimes they play total rubbish. Now I control my own moosics...and it totally rocks! (and pops, and dances and r'n'bs too).

The only sad part to my ipod story, is that 2 weeks after I got it, they launched a brand new generation of the nano's, which for the same size are $50 cheaper....aggghhh! and they come in very cool colours including purple...DOUBLE AGGGHHHH!

Official post 8 - More Flicker Fun (mashups)

This was yet more fun - it seems that I already played with a few of the toys on http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/ on an earlier exercise (when playing around with generators). I did have a look around at some of the other tools, but none of them really appealed to me (for the purposes of our exercises), but I can see that for at home use for photo management they could come in handy. I played around with a few more fun toys on FD Toys, and made the following trading card and magazine cover, both of which I uploaded to my flickr account (the upload from FD toys worked nice and easily...yay!) I did add hopefully the right tags to my trading card to try and add it to the Librarian trading card cluster, but it doesn't seem to have added there - not sure how to get it into the cluster? maybe my tags are wrong? I had a lot of fun making the magazine cover - many thanks to cover girl Eclair :)

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Official post 7 - Fun with flickr

Well, flickr is pretty cool I have to admit. I have played around with photo sites before, mostly picassa, but usually I just upload pics to share on my facebook or bebo accounts for friends and family to see. I firstly uploaded a few cool display pics from when I was working at Pakuranga Library many moons ago....I think u should be able to see those here http://www.flickr.com/photos/30831196@N08/sets/72157607439800302/
Then I uploaded my homemade LOLcat pics...cause I'm trying to spread them all around the net.....tee hee. Then I decided I really wanted to play with picnik cause it sounded like fun, and it totally rocks! U can see the result of my playing below.......mwahahahaha. I can see that I will be having lots of fun playing with our home pics.....funneh xmas cards here I come!
The only downside to all this was the trying to blog my pic from flickr....It seemed to be going perfectly, but kept failing at the last step. So then I thought I would upload it through blogger via the web, which worked, but not properly, there was an error with it. At that point I got fed up and saved the pic from flickr to my flash drive to upload to blogger the usual way....which worked perfectly as always.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

My husband the comedian.....

Have you guys seen that funneh new Whitcoulls ad? The one with the couple...where the woman has a fit at having to do everything and makes her partner sleep on the couch? and then when she comes home from work she finds post it notes attached around the house....eg one on the jam jar saying I loosened this, one on the dog saying I've been fed, and so on? Well, I came home from work the other day and found these...





















And many many more! On the front door there was 'I sprayed around the door for bugs'. On the front hallway mat 'I put notes all around the house' and so on. I did think it was pretty funny....but I was most impressed by the 'I did the dishes' one....because YAY! I came home to the dishes done....SWEET!

Somethings coot from upcoming LOLcats

This seemed appropriate for the blog so I thought I'd share it.


And the next one is just too funneh...



Not for nom indeed!

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Official post 6 - Rollyo

Hmmm, rollyo is a strange and interesting concept. I made my own searchroll called Comic book mecca, and listed some of my favourite useful comic book sites (see my Rollyo link on the right there). I don't really know who might find this useful...but u never know, someone mite want to do a safe wee comic related search! I also added my favourite local comic book shops Heroes for Sale and Gotham comics to it...so perhaps this could be some free web publicity for them...tee hee. I have to say at the end of this, I don't really think I would really use Rollyo myself...and I was wondering just how useful it really is - then I talked to one of the other staff here and she told me she made a freebee colouring in sheet searchroll. As an ex-children's librarian I was most impressed......and thought that would be most useful indeedy!

Official post 5 - Library thing

Eeeek! Thought I'd better post about this before everyone thinks I've given up on blogging! Library thing is quite interesting....I've added only 14 books to my library so far, and I found the author pages really interesting (although it seems that some are probably not 'official' pages as such....ahem) You can see a selection of my titles over to the right there on my widget, or by going to http://www.librarything.com/catalog/comicbookgal08
Overall this is an interesting application.....but its kind of similar to a small application I have on my facebook account...so I don't know that I'll be keeping on with it. It will be very useful for some library customers tho.

(PS....I did try to add another library thing widget for searching to the blog....but the work computer started misbehaving, and I decided I was spending way to much time on this topic....time to move on methinks!)