RSS feeds

Do I really want to know so much breaking news and new articles and latest postings? It is tempting to RSS any website that is remotely interesting (where RSS is available) so as not to miss out on some gem of new information, but I have found that, even with only a few feeds set up, the amount of information to wade through is becoming daunting. I need to cull!

Give Flickr the flick?

No, I don't think so.
OK, Flickr and other photo and mashup sites are terrible time-wasters, but I had a fun two hours exploring some of them.
I particularly like the Maps tool, where you can upload your holiday photos using the Organizr and drag-and-drop them onto a Google map to show where you took them, or browse a world map to see where other people have been.
We could use Flickr on our library website to show the facades and locations of our library branches ... add that to the to-do list!

At last - a first blog!

I finally did it - I'm no longer a virgin! I finally have my own blog..... OK, I know, if you are reading this you are probably familiar enough with blogging to navigate blogworld and have seen this sort of wildly enthusiastic post 1000 times , but just humour me while I congratulate myself on catching up a bit with THE technology.
Are we going somewhere with this Library 2.0 program, which aims to update librarians on how to use the internet in ways that many of our customers already are? I sure hope so because I found that the instructions weren't very clear, so navigation has been hit-or-miss with considerable use of the browser back button - now that's something I can do well!
I've also got a lot of catching up to do because I am many weeks behind in the program due to work and personal commitments, and being on holiday. Poor me?
Looking at what other participants have achieved in just a few weeks gives me faith that this program will definately be an exciting and worthwhile learning experience (despite - or because of - the challenges), so here goes...