#12 Rollyo

A potentially useful search tool, to be able to customise some of the more commonly used sites into a handy ready reference tool. Still finding my way around the Rollyo site and related links, and will probably need more time to fully understand all of its benefits.

#11 Library Thing

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/Techno-dinosaur


This was very interesting to be able to create a catalogue of some of my favourite books, and I'm sure I'll add more down the track when time permits.
I like the way the catalogue displays on LibraryThing, with images of book covers which makes it more visually appealing.
One of my colleagues at work helped me with adding the hyperlink to my blog-it was pretty exciting to get it to actually work first time.
Who knows-I might end up with hyperlinks here, hyperlinks there, hyperlinks everywhere!

#10 Image Generators

There's nothing like advertising to the world how incompetent I'm starting to feel with some of this web 2.0 stuff!!

(courtesy of the image generator GlassGiant.com)

http://www.glassgiant.com

#9 Newsfeeds

It took me a while to find my way around the various RSS feed links. Ultimately I ended up searching for some cookery feeds via Bloglines, and found them the easiest to locate. Feedster was also interesting to look at. I found some of the other links listed a bit more confusing-the screen seemed very busy and hard to identify your results easily. I still don't feel that I really understand all the ins and outs of searching for feeds, but maybe a bit more practice will help.
(I found a great site about old chistmas pudding recipes, but managed to lose it while trying to subscribe!) Oh well, back to the standard pudding recipe for Christmas this year!!

#8 RSS Feeds

I'm still getting my heard around RSS feeds at present. After setting up my Bloglines newsreader account, I had a play and subscribed to the required number of feeds. I've since logged back in and browsed through some of the latest feeds-some interesting stuff.
I guess the news feeds would be a practical way of keeping up to the minute with world events for research purposes/customer assistance, although finding the time to log in and browse regularly may be a problem sometimes. Once more staff are familiar with this newer technology the ability to subscribe to shared feeds could be beneficial for information sharing.
I think it will still take me a little while to fully understand and utilise news feeds properly.

#7 Technology

Remember when...........
-Wireless......was the large cabinet in the corner of the loungeroom that the family gathered around to hear the latest world news.
-Chat Room.........a roomful of ladies catching up with the latest gossip over a cuppa and a sandwich
-Blackberry.........those luscious berries scavenged from roadsides and made into delicious jam
-Spam............something from a can that was used as a sandwich filling.

Mention these terms today and they have a completely different connotation related to technology. Even though I often feel like a complete dinosaur where technology is concerned these days (hence the blog name), whether we like it or not it has certainly had a big impact on life as we know it today. From my day to day work point of view, computers and the internet have probably had the biggest impact, allowing us as library staff to deal with customer queries, etc in a fast, professional way.
(Doesn't it feel strange when the computer software crashes, and we have to revert to pen and paper to record customer transactions!)

#6 Mashups, etc

I've explored the various links related to this activity, but I'm not really sure that I'm any the wiser as to exactly what these are! The wikipedia definition gave me some basic overview, but having looked at the various links, I still don't really understand what these are basically used for. Some seem to be game related, and others give mapping info, etc, while yet others seem to have lots of people's own personal photos and some blogging info.
Who knows, maybe it will make more sense after I continue with other activities in the weeks to come!

#5 Flickr

Well after lots of trial and error I finally managed to save this image of a Beanie Dinosaur By fimble, which I thought was kind of cute and found on Flickr.