technorati

it was through technorati that I added two more RSS feeds to my Bloglines reader - Boing Boing (!?) a blog devoted to trivia on every conceivable subject you can possibly imagine, I for one was not aware that a huge floating 'landmass' of plastic waste floats out in the ocean in the middle of nowhere somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii - eeeuuucch! the environmental picture just keeps getting worse - but is this true? Or one of those creepy urban myths that circulate around and evolve and morph into different things - I can imagine in a month's time it'll be located off the coast of Peru - hey that could actually happen couldn't it? This giant shifting miasma of non- biodegradable gunk circumnavigating the globe - soon to visit your shores so look out.

rss feeds

i know this isn't in sequence - i tend to be looking at these things in my own order - going ahead and then jumping back to something i decided wasn't interesting (for myself) but then realising it was important to at least have a cursory glance!
but i really like the idea of feeds, i feel this helps me enormously in keeping in touch with what is out there and its my own personalised site. i've got a mixture of things such as The Age, The Australian, The Guardian - so covering my news needs both domestic and international in scope, and then employment feeds such as any new librarian jobs from Seek, ALIA and MyCareer - I like to be aware of any new positions even if i'm not looking myself - it's nice to know what's around.
lastly i've added National Geographic to feed through to me their latest news on environmental matters - i'm a huge fan of NG and have been since i was a child. and then after cruising around technorati i discovered the world's most visited blog is Boing Boing - so i've added that!

the labyrinth called social bookmarking

i've just had a look at del.icio.us - hmmm interesting concept and i can certainly see the potential here for educational purposes. i like the way you can go into someone else's bookmarks to have alook at what they have stored. i dislike the way these online applications create an endless 'link' to something else equally endless in nature. that isn't what life is about! we're finite after all. i also still think the structure here for information storing and sharing is too sloppy and random. but of course i can see the enormous potential for the future in these things (it's early early days) - and libraries need to take not just notice but action.

catch up time!

well i have been looking at everything and following the 2.0 program but i've not been posting! i just realised i posted a 'comment' talking about much the same sort of thing and now have realised that it appears as someone else as opposed to myself.

first past the first post

well hello there this is my first post and first attempt at blogging - i can't say it interests me hugely but perhaps that's because i've never taken much notice of it - do I really want a 'second life'? - am i prepared to go 'virtual' ?
am i secretly a luddite intimidated by harmless technology? But i know one thing - i don't want to get left behind and lost out at sea