Podcasts and You Tube

I've had RSS feeds set up for JISC podcasts - it's a useful to keep up to date and it breaks up pattern of getting info. through reading.

My browser tells me it's going to stop supporting YouTube in 2 days' time! If you're in the same position make sure you quickly take a look at the finest bit of Ocarina playing in East Oxford.

social bookmarking

Set up an account successfully and, for the sake of it, put links to the libraries where I've worked. Could be really useful - I'd have to spend more time rummaging to find out if the links remain up-to-date.

flickr and picnik

Hello Bunny Friends,

Long way behind on 23 Things so forgive me if I do a few cursory posts. Uploaded photos to Flickr successfully - of the RSL in the January snow http://www.flickr.com/photos/48259159@N05

Picnik was really easy to use. Initially I only used the basic tools, but thanks to Gigi's blog, I found the create and other functions - lots of fun and potential for improving the marketing of the library.

RSS feeds

Weighing up the benefits of i) having updates to all my favourites beamed to Google Reader and ii) the pressure of having increasing lists of unread updates.

So I'm RSSing:

John Peel wiki updates
Oxfordshire news
Cherwell news
JISC podcasts
Science Library pad
News from Times Higher ed.
Oxford Ornithological society
and my fellow RSL bloggers

It's an odd mix of the personal and professional and not quite sure if I'm comfortable with blurring the two. It's possible to create folders for the RSS feeds but it's too tempting to dump it all on one screen.

Also, some key websites (Shaksper Shakespeare discussion; oxford Nightshift magazine) don't have RSS feeds yet so I'm still grappling with having to check the websites for updates.

23 Things

Things I'm looking forward to during this programme:

1) learning some new things
2) saving time on the things that I already know
3) exploring if I could use these things professionally
4) exploring if I could use these things personally
5) enjoying seeing what colleagues are doing
6) talking about it with colleagues over coffee
7) having fun
8) doing all of the above at my own pace

That's it. It would have been nice to think of 23 positives but 8 will have to do.

iGoogle

I'm now an iGoogler. Each time I select internet explorer I'm now faced with all sorts of information:

'Burnsian' is the OED word of the day
the weather in OX4 is getting colder - more snow? hurrah!!
"stress marriage in sex ed, teachers are told" - perhaps that education news gadget is not going to be relevant
a clock tells me it's 20.25 - just above where my pc tells me it's 20.25
Kan You Handle A Kandle for Your Kindle? - a new electric light for ebooks readers
"fat guy has seizure" YouTube most viewed video
a bird watching gadget keeps throwing up picture of birds - is that really what an Indigo Bunting looks like?
Schumacher 'can win title at 41': I'm 41, perhaps I could make it into Formula One

And then there's more library news, cricket news, maps, nme music news etc. I'll take the Kandle and the weather - the rest can go. If only I could get just a nice, clean page, with a single search box...