Hitchcock's Regret

This is a Central Coast Band that two of my sons played in until recently.
My sons David and Shane played Bass Guitar, Drums and other instruments on the three albums that they have recorded over a numbers of years.
They have also written and Co-written a number of tracks on the albums.
Most of the original members of the band are having a spell from performing due to family and work commitments.
Shane still assists Mark (the remaining artist) with making recordings in his studio.

On this track (Happiness) my granddaughter assist with the back-up vocals.
To see more of Hitchcock’s Regret
click here http://slim-goldendragon.blogspot.com/

LibraryThing | Catalog your books online

LibraryThing Catalog your books online

Learning 2.0

Learning 2.0 completion

I have really enjoyed this course and I have gained a little more knowledge and Internet skills.
From here I will certainly practice what I have learned so far and continue to explore the cyberspace for more learning skills.

“Phew” I will now have little more time to repair my computer as it crashed a few times. Even at the time writing this I didn’t think I would have been able to finish this course.
To anyone out there who may bother to read this blog?
Enjoy the 2.0 Learning Program I certainly did.

Regards Slim.

British Library is in Facebook
Second Life Library Project.
NSW Reference and Information Services Group forum
Rotorua Public Library is on Bebo
'Communities of Practice' avatars Second LifeNewsGrist discusses social networking services quick videoclip

Google Docs

To be able to create an online document available to other participants at the same time, so that they can work on this document together, but not necessarily from the same locality is fantastic. The time this saves by not having to mail the document to other departments but being able to send this instantly anywhere around the globe has to be a winner.

There are many other aspect's of online application tools that saves in other areas as well, such as: computer problems (there is nothing more frustrating than turning on your computer and finding out the Hard-Drive with all of your document has crashed).

You can continue Working on your document at home:
It is only recently that we have we been able to use a thumb drive in our workplace due to that our IT management removed all access to our floppy disk-drives and without any DVD/CD burning facilities available.
Google Docs is great for students, Library Internet users, Library staff, sending a document to your blog and the list goes on.

Slideshare and Thumbstacks this slide show Zoho

Mashups

I really like the concept of joining a number of web applications and making one complete Mashup.
I can think of quite a number of mashups we can use for advertising the Library on the web i.e. an Advents Calendar, Maps with the locations of our Libraries etc.

I like to adventure a lot more with all of this but I’m running short of time.

Mappr big huge labs Google maps public library finder
Voicethread Keir Clarke Big huge labs Google Maps API
Star Viewer

My Birthplace and now.

Make yours @ BigHugeLabs.com

Podcasts and Vodcasts

Podcasting and Vodcasting is yet again another wonderful form of communication, created in this technological age we live in today. Amazing just by pressing the right buttons, we find information printed out or presented in audio format, with visual stills or in moving picture format. Wow!
You can, without spending too much money, communicate visually to someone all around the globe, “how connected have we have become”.
None of this would have been possible without the greatest inventions of this age. “The Computer and the Internet”.
The two combined have made the world of information available to almost all of mankind and one would hope a better place to live in. Slim.

ABC
LibVibe
Yahoo podcasts search
Library Success wiki
British Library
LibVibe
OCLS
Podcasts

Slamming the Posts

This was an easier week and a rather interesting one.
I think Slamming the Boards is a good site for the younger or the older generations who cannot get to the library because of job commitments or for the lack of transport. There are so many who just do not have the time to get to a library with numerous working between 2 jobs or more.

I feel all libraries could benefit from Answer Boards, where the Client can post their question(s) and know that they will get a librarian to answer them.
I liked the Yahoo!7 Answers the most for entertainment references.
I cannot help it but I still feel (even with all the technology available today)
that the most beneficial way is having customers visiting our libraries browsing for books and asking all sorts of information from a real life, in your face librarian.
What happens when the power goes out?

Digg
Social searching
Taste website
Amazon
Yahoo!7 Answers
WikiAnswers
slamming the boards
Answer Board Librarians wiki

Delicious Library Thing

I didn’t register with Technorati perhaps later when I create a new Blog. However I registered with http://del.icio.us/ & Library Thing. I enjoyed the exercise very much. I have tagged some interesting subjects, Authors and Books. I can see lots of possibilities to use these programmes for our library Services in many ways.

Josh Groban sings a message to the World

Josh Groban

Video of My first Australian Idol

I REMEMBER YOU “FRANK IFIELD” when you came to have
Your pushbike fixed wearing gum boots at my first place of employment at North Parramatta back in 1955 Or near enough to?
I can’t remember the exact year or date it’s been far to long ago to remember exactly when.

WIKIS

The contributing or editing of a Wiki is a very challenging concept.
It opens horizons for so many people who have ideas or sound information to add or edit but never have had the opportunity or authority to do so.
There are so many facts of history that are never fully explained or forgotten and we now have the ability to contribute to them.
Of course there is the possibility of vandalism but these can be restored to their originality.
With so much raw material of information available I can see the Wiki being a real source of input from our Library staff and the Public alike. Slim (pp)
Wikipedia
Blogging libraries wiki
Intellipedia
Book Lovers Wiki
Wookieepedia

FLICKR

I have created my flickr account and up/downloaded some pictures to my Blog.
I’ve also set up an account with Google’s Picassa and found both pleasing to use.
I’m very impressed with both of these free to use programmes.
Flickr
photo sharing
Photobucket
Kodak EasyShare Gallery
Smugmug
Ø pictures
Ø blogging tool
Ø Blogger's photo upload tool

RSS

RSS feeds can save you quite a bit of time when looking for the latest information available.
I have subscribed to Google Reader, Bloglines, Gmail, Page Creator, Picasa, and Flickr and find them all fairly easy to work with.
I have also set-up some RRS feeds to:
ABS for librarians
ABC News
Google blog search
Librarybytes
Bloglines
I don’t think I’ll be able to find the time to read them all on a daily basis. Maybe on the completion of this Course I will set-up most of my accounts with Google Powered productivity tools only. That way I will keep some kind of sanity to all this.
Labels: RSS blogging

BLOGGING AND LIBRARIES

Possibly the most profound aspects of blogging is the number of possibilities this concept provides i.e. visual communication and a wide range of collecting all sorts of statistics. Just with providing your favorite Authors, Singers, Movies or any information links you with people with similar interest from all over the world.
Many of the people involved with the State Library programme stated that blogging is boring. I couldn’t disagree more.
I find it a very exiting concept that has far-reaching possibilities.

I have included a poem for the Housebound By: Sarah L Russell

SOME YEARS AGO

I have always found the Internet and computers a fascinating tool for learning and gathering information on a multitude of subject matter. Having been invited in the early eighties to participate in setting up the Internet on our Library systems I find that the Internet has grown at an incredible pace and with it it’s complexity. Back then most of the information shared was with just plain text and only a very few people could do any sort of web page design. Today with Mobile phones being on line to Blog’s, Flicker, Wikipedia, Youtube, Mashups and all other sort communicating programs it can be very daunting to some of us oldies still game enough to have a go. Having built many of the mechanical monsters that we call PC’s, Laptop’s or other electronic equipment I’m now ready to participate in seeing what they can do.

Bookmobiles