Uploaded photo of Billy

Today I uploaded a photo of my neighbours dog who visits for a pat, a talk or food!

Library 2.0

Found Michael Jensen's article (The Chronicle Rveiew 15 June 2007)
http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i41/41b00601.htm
revealing. He mentions the concern about biased content in social networks. He mentions that where peer reviewed articles were/are considered authoratative on a subject, the difficulty in deciding which sites are authoratative within social networking should be ironed out in the next 10-15 years. If people can get material through these networks that is soundly researched then social networking may provide a valuable source of information to students. It will certainly be a new way of communicating between students, lecturers and libraries. There is much scope for librarians to assist with the deciphering of what can be used and found through social networking

Social Bookmarking del.icio.us

Much impressed. This is a way of customising whats on the web to suit me. I can easily find material on Travel in Africa which has photos, tips etc. This could be a way of researching a trip or just armchair travel. Checking out who else likes the sites I search for and find can get off my main topic though. Otherwise it saves time instead of bookmarking pages on google or writing down favorite web pages.

Google gadgets

Have set up my google account with mao, Book, Doc and Spreadsheets gadgets. Was able to view in the Maps Gadget my exact address in this regional town! (this could also be done on the telphone directory homepage via Telstra Whitepages) It would be useful to group my information needs on one page. As mentioned above some of these funstions are available elsweher alos such as Amazon.com having the ability ot show us contents pages and full index to some books. I was unable in the time i had to find any interesting Library gadgets. Google could well be a good place to work with their own dentist and free healthy food and interesting projects to work on.

Google Book Search

I searched for two books, Out of Africa and Vanishing Africa. There was no option to view pages for either. However the ability to browse pages or snippets would be useful although Amazon.com allows browsing of contents, index etx which is also useful to look at before buying. The Find in a Library option linked to Libraries australia which is good. However to an untrained person they may look no further than the first search. In my case the book Vansihing Africa link in Libraries Australia showed only one holding but I selected the author and found that it was held at many more libraries than just the one shown.
http://books.google.com/

Google Docs

Have just shared a word document and a spreadsheet document. It appears that Microsoft Word is not as essential now.
http://docs.google.com