Finishing up!

I want to complete this so I know I have covered at
least the basics for Web 2.0.

I downloaded itunes and had problems as I had
an older version on my computer. But I managed to
get some podcasts of Quirks and Quarks which is a
program I enjoy on a Saturday morning as well as some
audio from Harvard.

I then went on to the YouTube exercise and sent
a link to Dan.

I have, of course, heard a lot about YouTube so it
was about time that I signed up and watched something.
I looked at a number of videos including the Billy
Bob Thornton one that I had seen reference to
It can be found at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJWS6qyy7bw

I think with this I have completed the exercises.
It was interesting and forced me to look at many
things I had heard about but never signed up for.

Many thanks to all those people who designed these
exercises and contributed to this project.

Browsers - Do I have the time??

I use IE so I am limited as to the browser add on I
can install.

I decided to install StumbleUpon and it is very interesting.
You outline a profile and every time you click the
StumbleUpon button a webpage is displayed. I
really like some of them; you can choose whether you
save a link or not and the software fine tunes
your profile based on your decisions.

But I could spend hours looking at great websites,
some I can say are work related I suppose. This is
a very tempting time waster with just enough "work"
justification to draw you in.

It takes up to 14 days to get unentangled from this
website! Also it adds yet another toolbar, soon
there won't be any space left for actual pages of content!

Social Networking time!

I have had a Facebook account for over a year but rarely
look at it

I have asked Fangmin to be my friend as he is the Group
Leader for me.

I have about 8 friends which is fine! I am a member of the
Library Group but I think there is a group or network for
Ryerson Faculty but I can't seem to find it.

I will have look at some of the other Social Networking
products on the list but I don't think this is really for me!

Google ++

Google docs is great - I was in the middle of editing a document
with a librarian at York University when I found out about this
and this made it much easier than sending e-mail versions back
and forth.

I will certainly make use of this in the future.

I have used Google Maps a lot but had not explored all the
features so it was good to learn more

And Google Earth is wonderful - especially with all the extras
people are adding

Reading material

It was fun doing LibraryThing and listing books

I still have some to add that I am in the process of
reading. I really need to finish some of them!

The Popular Reading collection is detrimental
to my finishing others as I keep seeing ones
I want to read as I leave the library. The latest
is Lynne Truss's Eats, Shoots and Leaves with
its Panda joke. My punctuation could use some
fine tuning and I hope this will help

LibraryThing

del.icio.us

I can see the usefulness of del.icio.us in allowing you to
have access to your favourite sites quickly from any internet
connected commuter.

I can also see it being useful to connect to useful websites
from within Research Guides and the Social Science Data
part of MADAR. However I need to explore if you can
organize your bookmarks into subject folders or some
such thing or whether you would set up different
del.icio.us links for each set of items.

Like most of the other products we have been introduced to,
it is very easy to use - as long as you keep track of your
id and password!

Delicious!

I spent sometime today trying to remember my various
logins and passwords. I have 3 e-mail accounts at different
servers and can never remember which one I have used
for what.

I still have Flickr to sort out and, of course, have now added Del.icio.us
with, I have now realized, a completely different id than the other
sites. I suppose this could be considered a good workout
for my failing memory.

I am working on my 10 sites. At least I realized you could insert
a link

Guinea Pig but which one?

Guinea Pig but which one?
Originally uploaded by Sue's Favourites

Which guinea pig is this

T-Dog looking sweet and innocent

This is T-Dog or Tundra. One of my daughters "rescued" her in Edmonton. She now lives in Ottawa. As befits her border collie genes she is one smart dog and will have your sandwich as soon as your back is turned. But she is a sweetheart who loves her tummy rubbed.

Pictures of furry friends

I'm having some problems getting the pictures
I have uploaded to Flickr into this blog

Here is a url
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3441/3255692833_002eb0bcd8_b.jpg
which should show a guinea pig - not sure which one or
whether this is the head or other end!

And two more that should show T-Dog or Tundra
a very intelligent Border Collie mix that one of my
daughters "rescued" in Edmonton

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3386/3255692831_86af949026_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3416/3255692839_bddfe37a65_b.jpg

But I have not worked out how to have the photo display in this post

Wiki exercise completed!

It was extremely easy to add something on social science data into
the Library Wiki and to put in links.

Some great recipes have been put up. I can see how great a wiki is
for sharing information be it recipes or other information.

I do have concerns about the ease of changing entries though.
What is to stop someone from changing the links I put in
the section on data so that the user is directed to a commercial
site for example?

Trying to catch up after OLA!

Well, week 4 is here and I have only just started on week 3 but I am
intending on spending some quality time on Web 2.0 this week.

Last week was busy with OLA. As always I found the conference
interesting and caught up with several old friends that I only manage
to see once a year at the conference
.
There were great plenary speakers - Richard Florida, Michael Enright
and Justin Trudeau. Each quite different in personality and presentation
but they all love libraries - or so they tell us - with over 4,000 library
people at OLA how could they say anything different?

I went to an interesting presentation by the Chief Librarian from
Mississauga (name of Don Mills!) and someone from Environics
Analytics talking about analyzing geo-demographic data to see how
to make the branches more relevant to the locals.

There was also a booth at the Exhibit Hall with a display by
SimplyMap, a product that I think will be a great tool for mapping
census and socio-economic data for the non specialist. It is not yet
available but is coming along nicely.

Dan and I had about 50 people come to our presentation on E-Stat
and there were a number of questions. So we feel that this was a
worthwhile effort.

So all this has made me behind with the Wiki and Flickr assignments. So time
to get to work.

Trying not to get too far behind!

It has been busy with various presentations to
be fine tuned, meeting to go to and also physio for
my wrist.

So many thanks to Dan in giving me a helping hand
to get my RSS feeds in place. I can see that this
can be a helpful tool to keep up to data with a
whole range of personal and professional info.

I am thinking about where it might be useful to put
an RSS feed in the Social Science Data part
of the MADAR website

My RSS Feeds can be found at:
http://www.bloglines.com/public/hollycrumbs

What's in a name?

As I was trying to be creative and come up with a name for this
blog I started to contemplate all the crumbs on, in, and around
my keyboard.

Unfortunately the name Keyboard crumbs had already been
taken so that was no good. But outside work I have been known
as Holly so I put that together with the crumbs.

The green template seemed to go with Holly which I always
associate with Christmas, I just need some red accents to represent
the berries.

As for the crumbs on my keyboard, I shook out the ones I
could and hope the remaining ones do not make it attractive to
the furry fourfooted visitors some parts of the library have had!