Hello and About

Hello 25 thingers… Hello everyone – So that this post stays on top of the list, it is my Sticky Post. To bring some sort of order, I’ve categorised most of my entries. Look…see…. just on the Right, down there… Posts by Categories! Oh and I’ve tagged most posts so you could choose to view using a tag (kind of mini and multi categories, as many posts have more than 1 tag) – click one to pick one …. or …. just read on in the usual date order sort of way, latest first. There is also more than 1 page – look along the top, this gave me the chance to expand a bit and keep some categories/topics/things seperate

That was/is the Hello, now the About, the Why. The short explination is to do 25 things @ Huddersfield (click the link to the left to find out more) and NOW…….I just can’t stop…

Mashing libraries: work in progress « Information & Libraries Scotland

as a reminder

the Mashing  Libraries session were brill, i need to revisit my notes and follow stuff up soooon – after my hols

Facebook’s New Terms Of Service:

“We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever.”

ummm interesting… see this post  – http://tinyurl.com/ca4r2l - on consumerist.com

“You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof.”

find the above in the Licenses section of TOS

This throws up some interesting IP/copyright issues, what should you/shouldn’t you post,

…it’s difficult to get young people/students (and sometimes the not so young) to think carefully about what they post on social networking sites, to think about the image of themselves they are portraying and what might seem a harmless bit of fun now might come back to haunt them in a few months/years time, are the language/images used going to be appropriate or detrimental in a few months time and how many of us really look carefully at the privacy settings – will this change things, I personally doubt it. I think if you presume that anything you put on the internet is out there forever regardless if you want it there or not.

there is the “subject only to your privacy settings” sentence, so if we all keep these up-to date … is that ok then…restricted to my Friends, since that’s what my privacy settings are set for.!?!  The next question then is  -Who are my/your friends-

A place for Twitter

I’ve found that I use facebook updates for friends (the confessional not professional) and Twitter has become a place for work connections, though I am following my son on Twitter also… yes he does know.. I’ve found lots of interesting e-learning links and discussions I wouldn’t have known about if it wasn’t for some of my twitter connections, so it now has a firm place in my work related resources thanks to 25 Things for the nudge.

#uksnow on Flickr

Following on from my Twitter link  Uk snow on Twitter/Google Earth

Uk snow on Twitter/Google Earth

I found this on YouTube after following a Twitter Feed to first of all this blog post 

http://www.barnabu.co.uk/uksnow-twitter-animation-google-earth-5/

quote from above…. “As a knock-on of this there’s been a large amount of media buzz about the use of Twitter as a mob-sourced geo-mashup generator to show snowfall.  Twitter users have been posting the first half of their postcode, plus the amount of snow in their location. 0 = no snow, 10 = bucket loads. ie: “#uksnow W12 9/10″  Developers have been mashing-up that data. Check out Ben Marsh’s neat, live Google Map mashup of this: #uksnow Tweets“

23rd Thing – Podcasts

I know I’ve downloaded,subscribed to and listened to Podcasts in the past but not for sometime, in fact looking at my iTunes it seems the last time I downloaded one was January last year and I haven’t listened to that. It’s not because I don’t like the idea, it’s more about the way I listen to things.

I’ve always liked audio books, especially while traveling and whilst working in industry I usually had Radio 4 on in the background when working on the computer, now a days I suppose all these hours at home on the computer could be time listening to Podcasts but instead I tend to either tune into live radio,listen to music via iTunes or, use the wonderful listen again features via the internet (and at work my birdsong tracks).  

Today that might change. I think today might just be the time to rediscover the huge variety of subjects that podcasts have to offer. I’m going to start by relooking at what I already have. In my itunes I find I have 44 Podcasts –

27 espisodes of Books on Gardian Unlimited, 11 episodes of Great Moments in History, 2 episodes of Old Time Radio Comedy, 1 Front Row Interview, 1 episode of Radio 4’s Material World, and, 1 episode of Secrets of the Pirates of the Caribbean. a quick discussion with my son and a look at his shared iTunes library show that he currently has 350 Podcasts in his collection, he subscribes to 28 and this 350 include just the last 5 of any that he subscribes to, any older than this and they drop off the list. It seems these are what he listens to most when on his computer. doing homework and well just being. Now I’m going to go away and look closer at my podcasts and come back to this later

bit more Library Thing

This is a comment on one of the other 25Thingers blog - jubaru -

“Have you tried bookcrossing.com? It’s an interesting way of passing books on… “

So I hope jubaru and Bryony don’t mind me pinching this comment…. but with around 2500 books in the house (a very rough count up when I first logged into Library Thing earlier today) this could be useful. Cheers

22/25 YouTube

Thing 22 of 25Things@Huddersfield – YouTube – Thank you

Another chance to upload one of my current obsessions VinniPooh, I just adore these Russian animations and thanks to my sons (Russian) chemistry teacher I now have some of them on video along with some other less endearing, and not so well crafted, Russian animations for children.

This time with translation, even though I think I prefer them without – as I don’t speak Russian the narration is just like music to me. 

Thanks to Youtube user 0xDD who is based in Ukraine, for this

“There is a button with white triangle in the lower right corner of the viewer. It allows you to turn off annotations. You can use it any time you want “

21/25 library Thing

This is completely new to me – I’m sitting here at home surrounded by books, oh and computer stuff, the last book case I built was floor to ceiling on our first floor landing and is / was full from about 1/2 after the last screw went in, but I didn’t know, don’t know anything about Library Thing so …here goes… in another tab, time to take a look :O

“Developed for booklovers, this online tool not only allows you to create an online catalogue of your own, it also connects you to other people who have similar libraries and reading tastes. Add a book to your catalogue by just entering the title and find other users who share your reading tastes. There are lots of ways to use LibraryThing. You can even view your books on a virtual shelf, add a widget to display titles that are in your catalogue.” – 25Things @ huddersfield  - see also http://en.wordpress.com/tag/librarything/

I’m not sure if I want to catalogue our books, but, I did mention this Library Thing to my sons girl friend a few days ago (she is currently doing an English Lit A Level, going onto an English Lit and French Degree later this year) and she was interested in finding out more, so I’m going to investigate further.

A random selection of books added, 16 so far (?1000’s to go), not always the exact edition so that might have an effect on how many other people have, or haven’t got this on their shelf. I found 138 members with Exodus by Julie Bertagna but only one other with the second book in the series Zenith by Julie Bertagna, umm.

and no one else with Glorious Colour; Sources of Inspiration for Knitting and Needlpoint by Kaffe Fassett, I’ll bring this one into work sometime because I know all in level 3 will like it!

and curious to see The Amulet of Samarkand (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 1) byJonathan Stroud -2,497 other members, Ptolemy’s Gate (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 3)by Jonathan Stroud - 1,513 other members, but the second in the series Golem’s Eye by Jonathan Stroud only 1 other member.

Sooo much to look at, toooo much for just now, so I will be back to this one….even if its for others not myself.