Off to Tassie!

Heading off to Tassie on Sunday to go to the ANZIL Conference @ Uni of Tasmania.
Hopefully some inspirational ideas about information literacy. Looking forward to exploring Sandy Point where I'm staying, walking distance from the Uni.

Staying on for a few extra days to visit a friend who has a lovely property on 30 acres of bush. Looking forward to a relaxing time after all my culture-vulturing @ the Melbourne Festival. Saw some great shows this year- Laurie Anderson's concert & discussion session, The show must go on, Sankai Juku's Kagemai, Daniel Kitson's C-90, the European House & tomorrow a matinee session of NICA's Divino! Did anyone go to any of these shows? If so what did you think of them?

Del.ici.ous

I set up a Del.ici.ous account a while back & haven't used it much as yet, though can definitely see the potential. One of the best things is that you can access it on any machine, where generally your bookmarks are machine specific & that can be a pain sometimes. I've added the little Del.ici.ous tag icon on my toolbar, then it's quite quick & easy to add a new site. The name always reminds me of food though & the site certainly doesn't give anywhere near the gratification delicious food does!

My Space

Returned today to the My Space account I set up a few months ago. Not likely to use this much, although the teenage daughter of a friend of mine is 'talking' with me on My Space, so that is interesting. I did lots of letter writing to my best friend when I was a teenager & I can see how MySpace may have been very seductive, had we had it at the time! Back then we were listening to serials on the radio & the Argonauts Club on the ABC (no TV!) and writing letters! The photo is of Argonaut Peter Finch, before he joined up in World War ll, with fellow Argonaut, Andrina Watton from the The Birth of the ABC - Photogallery
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For those who have never heard of the Argonauts it was a radio club with over 100,000 members aged 7-17. Each member was allocated a ship name and number - one of Jason's fleet - on a quest for the mythical fleece in a world beyond adult control...

The Club encouraged children's contributions of writing, music, poetry or art and was one of the ABC's most popular children's programs, running six days a week for 28 years, until it was broadcast only on Sundays and was finally discontinued in 1972. Any former Argonauts out there? I was a regular listener to the show, but never did join up.

Laurie Anderson

Went to Laurie Anderson's talk/discussion last evening....very interesting. When she was asked what she saw as beauty, she answered for her it was empathy & she likes this to come through in her work too. To get outside of me, me, me!

I'm going to Homeland tonight, really looking forward to it. She said that this show was sparked by anger, as artists generally in the US are not speaking out about what's happening in the States & that makes her very angry. Although her work has never been greatly political she feels she can not remain silent now.
Laurie Anderson's homepage

Thanks to Mishalleneous from Sea of Memes blog I discovered that Laurie Anderson has a presence in My Space too!
Laurie Anderson on My Space
Some interesting YouTube video clips here

Sharing and Following/Listening in the Social Web
The web home of Thomas Vander Wal. A blog that notes changes in the web design and web development world as well as Thomas Vander Wal's random observations on life and technology (and possible rants).

Top social networks:Facebook grows while MySpace slows

Facebook Sees Flood Of New Traffic From Teenagers And Adults comScore

Returning to Facebook

Have gone back into my Facebook account, which I set up in August, but have not contributed to it since then. Having become relatively at home with blogging & it feels strange to me in Facebook.

New format, new tools & not as much control over design either. At this point feel I'm more into blogging....maybe it's just the familiarity of it? Will explore Facebook a bit & see. Maybe I'm not innately a social networker, in the global sense anyway.

Technorati

Have just been exploring Technorati. Interesting to see what makes it into the top 20 most popular blogs. I see the Huffington Post there at no.5 Just heard about this news source a few days ago, so will keep an eye on it for a little while to see what I think.

Going back to my passion for textiles, I did some searching and when I used specific search terms I did find a few blogs of interest.
Shibori girl World Shibori Network Ragged Cloth Cafe art cloth text Dancing on temple tops

Also found postsecret at no.14! Happy to see that...just discovered it yesterday (see my previous post about it) It's a great site. Ordered a copy of the newly published book A Lifetime of secrets for the library today

I Don't Dig Digg

Loaded up Digg on to my blog a couple of weeks ago using the widget.
First I selected Design as an option for the articles I wanted to look at, but seemed to get a lot about car design, which was not of interest to me, so I switched to the Health ctegory.Very weird stuff comes up now, the informed along with the plain whacky!

24 warning signs you can't afford to ignore Surely a fast track to becoming a hypochondriac!

Wikipedia describes the editorial control of Digg as non-hierarchical and democratic, as news stories and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking
system, differing from the usual hierarchical editorial system that many other news sites employ.

This sounds good in theory, but I have found that there is a lot of stuff coming up that I am just not interested in, so I'm definitely not a Digg fan.

PostSecret.com

For the past three years Frank Warren has invited people of all backgrounds and nationalities to send him creatively decorated postcards bearing secrets they have never before revealed. He has shared these PostSecrets on his award-winning blog, PostSecret.com

In his latest book A Lifetime of Secrets he shows us a never-before-seen selection of provocative and moving PostSecrets, laying bare our private fears, hopes, regrets, and desires, from people as young as eight to as old as eighty.

Frank Warren started PostSecret.com as a community art project. Since November 2004 he has received more than 150,000 anonymous postcards. The website won two Webby Awards in 2006 and this year was named Weblog of the Year at the Seventh Annual Weblog Awards. The PostSecret project also received a special award from the National Mental Health Association for raising awareness and funds for suicide prevention.

The Life of Riley

This is a delightful blog all about Olive She was born in Broken Hill on 20th October, 1899 and will soon be 108!

Her friend Mike is doing the typing for her. They started the blog together in February 2007. She is the world's oldest blogger! There are some Utube clips of her singing & chatting on her blog too. Well worth a look.

Feeding frenzy!

I now have my little reader 'chicklet' installed, so
if you'd like to subscribe to my blog...be my guest!

Bloglines was confusing so I went to Google Reader, which
was so much easier, especially with a gmail account.
It's reassuring when others express their views about
these new tools 'cos @ times my brain synapses seem
severely challenged! When I hear someone comment 'no
it's not very intuitive' ....phew, I'm relieved!

Have now subscribed to a few Library related blogs using
Google Reader, including some of my favourite Swin 23 Things
blogs!

Library blogs

Started checking out some library blogs. Library link of the day says there are over a thousand library weblogs, so I decided getting a feed from a blog that provides you with a daily link for keeping up to date with the library profession, seemed like a good idea. No information overload & reminded by a feed too! Both tasks done in one hit!

Where to start? Try this 'mother of all lists' of library blogs!
Lis wiki
Here are a few sites that appealed to me:
library web chic
librarian.net
Information Literacy Weblog
Information Literacy meets Web 2.0
Stephen's Lighthouse
iLibrarian

tantalizing new textile titles

Explored Library thing & found some great new
textile titles recently published,or about to be published .
Possible wishlist for Christmas!