Technocrati

Official Overload

OK. I had a look at technocrati last week-end, but I had one of those moments where I couldn't find a blog I was interested enough in to tag. I get the picture. Keep track of your favorite bloggers and let everyone else know who your favourite bloggers are. Sharing sharing. Yes I am sharing as much as I can.

I know I am not the only one who suffers from computer overload. I confess that I recently let lapse my email account which I have had for nearly 8 years. Plus I still use a land line connection at home. Strangely enough it is faster then the mega broadband which functions with the aid of a huge tower on the roof of our building sucking in waves from all over inner Melbourne to make our library computers work. For a while when I lived in the leafy eastern suburbs I was "stealing" wireless from at least three of my neighbours.

My beautiful Macintosh sits gathering dust on my home workstation. Its a beautiful piece of machinery but sadly at six years it is ready for retirement. So what am I using. My partner's 12 month old Toshiba.

These musings are a pre-amble to the point of this weeks exercise. That is to share thoughts on the future of libraries. Here we go, more sharing.

At the Delcious Cafe

A quick tour of the Delicious tools. Here I remembered one of my favorite painters and my two favourite magazines.

Rollio

This small search engine will scroll through some of the worlds finest art galleries. So no more offerings of nude photos of the Mona Lisa or 'Mona Lisa's latest hottest rampage'. I foresee a real use for anyone who doesn't have the time to scroll through the trash to get to the good stuff. Yes I am one of these people who believe the net is a huge garbage dump. Its our job to sift out the rubbish and keep the best at our fingertips.

Select...Art stuffSearch The Web

Library Thing with Pictures and Links

A few covers of books from my very small library thing collection. And a direct link to Library Thing.

Technical Note: This I could not have achieved yesterday and it is not quite how I would like it to be, but as I am so far behind I am pleased to have done this today. Persistence does pay off.

A view of the obscure and the popular

Library thing

One of my favourite books is shared by only 63 people who use Library Thing. Library Thing is a very nice place to 'visit', to discover the books I would very much like to own.

It's like having a conversation about certian titles without having to talk to anyone. Its like taking a secret tour of a book lovers bookshelf, or in same cases the library room in their house.

The Image is the word

Image generators have given me the opportunity to headline and show off a minor collection which I keep in the secure premises of my dilapidated asbestos ridden garage.

A collection of really bad album covers procured from op shops over the years. Its an inexpensive pursuit which can generate a few laughs and remind people of their early record buying experiences. Some of us sadly (including myself) were less cool than others.

Which brings me to the question of what was the 1st album your ever bought and how bad was the cover. Mine was the Bay City Rollers. A few not so good looking boys in tartan. Not nice.

Flickr at Last

From flickr src="http://www.flickr.com/images/flickr_logo_blog.gif" width=41 align=absMiddle border=0>, I can keep an eye on places I can't get to easily. My new flikr account contains a few images of Volcanoes. Until I get used to this they are images I have borrowed from various tourist sights. Mine I hope will come later.

I was born on a dismally sort of dormant volcano called Vulcano hence the fascination. Stromboli is much more exciting and I did mange to climb this many years ago. Two days in a row. Etna, been up there twice too, well as close as a tourist can get to the crater. Very cold.

Technical Note: I am not sure what happened to the neat Flikr Logo. It turned into a web address which only a genius could memorise when I tried to do a spell check. (See Blog #2).

But I must press on as I am so far behind the rest of my colleagues.