Friday, February 20, 2009

Who knew web 2.0 would lead to cataloguing parties!!?

I was just poking around inside LibraryThing and came across the following post announcing a flash-mob cataloging party.

Apparently the first-ever catalog flash-mob was held back in November when a group of 20 people (librarians? library school students?) converged on St. John's Church in Beverly, MA to catalogue over 2000 items in a church library using LibraryThing!

I created a LibraryThing account back in July. Unfortunately, an email address was not mandatory and for some reason I did not provide one, so I was not able to retrieve my forgotten username and password. I eventually struck the right combination and was able to access my original account, which I had set up for orchid blogging purposes. So far I only have 2 books in my LibraryThing collection.

Delicious

I am somewhat of a delicious late bloomer ... created my first delicious account for the purposes of our RULA 2.0 activities last week. The disadvantage of delicious is that it is, as I'm sure many of us are feeling, one more username and password to remember! However, having web-based bookmarks rather than computer-based is definitely an advantage, and the social aspect of it is really interesting! For example, it's neat to see that 12 other people have bookmarked Biblios, and I can even see who they are! My tag cloud is pretty weak right now because I've only tagged with rula20 so far ...

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Spring?


I am so curious to see what is on the ground underneath all that snow ... especially in the picture below. What will the woods look like come spring? Perhaps we will have some wild orchids like the ones pictured here. I believe this picture is from an early morning hike up Mt. Wells in Victoria. What is hiding underneath the snow here in TO???

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

It's Flickr week!

Flickr is one of my favourite online tools. I've had a Pro account for a few years now so that I don't have to worry about uploading limits and more recently, limits on number of sets that you can create. I think the $25 / year is well worth the money for the ease and ability to store, find, and share photos.

A couple of days ago I was browsing Flickr and I came across a gorgeous and multiple award-winning photograph of some trees in a forest with morning light. Unfortunately I have so far failed in my attempts to relocate the photo but I will keep hunting and see if I can track it down again.