Thursday, November 8, 2007
Embedding - a nightmare
Will it work this time, it seems to be ok in preview but doesn't show up after its posted...
Yahoo Video
Yes, anyong seems to be able to post a video or music or whatever onto You Tube or yahoo video. There are some safe guards in the form of the copyright police though.
Searching for a particular band on Yahoo Video can be disappointing, couldn't find what I wanted, but its is available via other video sites. Anyway I did discover a little gem, a great little up and coming guitarist who just needs some refining but awesome anyway, but I lost the page and I've had great difficulty finding it again.
In its place I'll go for another favourite of mine, although the quality is lacking, like it does appear to be on many of the entries on these various sites, it does provide a service showing historical (or hysterical) images from many years back. This link http://au.video.yahoo.com/video/play?ei=UTF-8&gid=2126265&vid=1209522&b=1 might appeal to those with a darker musical interest, showing a younger Ozzy when he didn't slur his speech as much, or try the version 10 years later at http://au.video.yahoo.com/video/play?ei=UTF-8&gid=2126265&vid=1209327&b=2
A contemporary band of Sabbaths can be seen at http://au.video.yahoo.com/video/play?ei=UTF-8&gid=2126265&vid=1257613&b=1 playing also near their peak, and near to disbanding.
Searching for a particular band on Yahoo Video can be disappointing, couldn't find what I wanted, but its is available via other video sites. Anyway I did discover a little gem, a great little up and coming guitarist who just needs some refining but awesome anyway, but I lost the page and I've had great difficulty finding it again.
In its place I'll go for another favourite of mine, although the quality is lacking, like it does appear to be on many of the entries on these various sites, it does provide a service showing historical (or hysterical) images from many years back. This link http://au.video.yahoo.com/video/play?ei=UTF-8&gid=2126265&vid=1209522&b=1 might appeal to those with a darker musical interest, showing a younger Ozzy when he didn't slur his speech as much, or try the version 10 years later at http://au.video.yahoo.com/video/play?ei=UTF-8&gid=2126265&vid=1209327&b=2
A contemporary band of Sabbaths can be seen at http://au.video.yahoo.com/video/play?ei=UTF-8&gid=2126265&vid=1257613&b=1 playing also near their peak, and near to disbanding.
Catching up a little with 23 Things
I've been away, now I'm madly trying to catch up in the exercises.
I've had a quick look at Del.icio.us and Technorati, and the ideas behind them seem useful on a personal level but I'm still trying to get a handle on the usefullness for the wider library connectivity to patron issues.
Yes, having one place to access your bookmarked internet favourites is handy, but I'm not sure how this helps the library advertise or provide the enduser relevant information. Its an organisational tool, and if the enduser doesn't decide your site is of use to them they won't bookmark it.
As for tagging, yes now this is an old library trick of providing descriptors for an item ranging from the old Library of Congress headings we all love (not) through to those we make up on the fly for the newspapers cuttings we used to put in the vertical file drawers.
And my last point about making up tags is possibly the current downfall of Technorati, and anything else of a similar nature, it relies in a social networking kind of way, and we are talking social networking aren't we, in what you as an individual believe you and others will find the tagged item with best. This is the very argument as to why structured languages or thesauri for libraries were created, so we all had a standard way of identifying a similar item. I do understand that in recent literature this very issue has been mentioned, and ways of creating that identifiable set of strings is being looked at. Does this mean we will be going back to the creation of a thesaurus for social networking tagged items? I don;t think so, as of course you can argue that the very nature of these things being online means any term can be used as they are all searchable, and as many tags are being used to describe one entry it wil lead to other tagged entries with other different tags, and so on.
This then leads to the discovery, the serendipity aspect of social networking, or put another way the loss of time in your life aspect.
I've had a quick look at Del.icio.us and Technorati, and the ideas behind them seem useful on a personal level but I'm still trying to get a handle on the usefullness for the wider library connectivity to patron issues.
Yes, having one place to access your bookmarked internet favourites is handy, but I'm not sure how this helps the library advertise or provide the enduser relevant information. Its an organisational tool, and if the enduser doesn't decide your site is of use to them they won't bookmark it.
As for tagging, yes now this is an old library trick of providing descriptors for an item ranging from the old Library of Congress headings we all love (not) through to those we make up on the fly for the newspapers cuttings we used to put in the vertical file drawers.
And my last point about making up tags is possibly the current downfall of Technorati, and anything else of a similar nature, it relies in a social networking kind of way, and we are talking social networking aren't we, in what you as an individual believe you and others will find the tagged item with best. This is the very argument as to why structured languages or thesauri for libraries were created, so we all had a standard way of identifying a similar item. I do understand that in recent literature this very issue has been mentioned, and ways of creating that identifiable set of strings is being looked at. Does this mean we will be going back to the creation of a thesaurus for social networking tagged items? I don;t think so, as of course you can argue that the very nature of these things being online means any term can be used as they are all searchable, and as many tags are being used to describe one entry it wil lead to other tagged entries with other different tags, and so on.
This then leads to the discovery, the serendipity aspect of social networking, or put another way the loss of time in your life aspect.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Late entry
Well, its coming up to Melbourne Cup time, and juts like that I've got a late entry to my Blog. hopefully people won't scratch it, only themselves.
Just came across another article about social networking, on the web that is, in the newspaper The West Australian. Find it at http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=429863
Seems to mention that in the second half of 2007 we Australians have increased our social networking and chat site usage by 37% over the first half, and that Faceboook is getting increased traffic and may overtake MySpace. However MySpace controllers claim the stats can be misleading, with Facebook traffic being only short timespan stuff.
Things rings bells, I think I've seen/heard an argument like this before. Yes! On the 4 corners programme about 2nd Life, detractors claim that although there are huge numbers of registered users of Second Life, the number of active users is actually only a small percentage of those.
So statistics can be manilpulated, but social networking has certainly got the companies behind the Faces ( pun intended) trying to protect their patches.
Just came across another article about social networking, on the web that is, in the newspaper The West Australian. Find it at http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=429863
Seems to mention that in the second half of 2007 we Australians have increased our social networking and chat site usage by 37% over the first half, and that Faceboook is getting increased traffic and may overtake MySpace. However MySpace controllers claim the stats can be misleading, with Facebook traffic being only short timespan stuff.
Things rings bells, I think I've seen/heard an argument like this before. Yes! On the 4 corners programme about 2nd Life, detractors claim that although there are huge numbers of registered users of Second Life, the number of active users is actually only a small percentage of those.
So statistics can be manilpulated, but social networking has certainly got the companies behind the Faces ( pun intended) trying to protect their patches.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Not about Mashups
O.k., I'm diverting again off the scheduled part of the 23 things programme, and going backwards slightly.
I was checking out an article from the 'LibraryLink of the Day' I subscribe to via email, http://www.cio.com/article/141650 and came across a link to a very good article about Wikis and Blogs, http://www.cio.com/article/122701/ABC_An_Introduction_to_Blogs_and_Wikis_in_the_Business_World/1
It covers qute well topics such as what are Wikis and Blogs, what benefits they have for businesses, and the types of techology and terminology used. Check it out, as it also gives some ideas of how some businesses have used these particular communication tools.
I was checking out an article from the 'LibraryLink of the Day' I subscribe to via email, http://www.cio.com/article/141650 and came across a link to a very good article about Wikis and Blogs, http://www.cio.com/article/122701/ABC_An_Introduction_to_Blogs_and_Wikis_in_the_Business_World/1
It covers qute well topics such as what are Wikis and Blogs, what benefits they have for businesses, and the types of techology and terminology used. Check it out, as it also gives some ideas of how some businesses have used these particular communication tools.
Monday, October 8, 2007
I'm back onto the normal 23 Things trail. So you might have noticed that I have a nice new picture on my page, courtesy of the late and very great Charles M Schulz.
Its using the blogger add a page element functionality to add a picture. A bit basic as resizing the picture option would have been really handy. Someone let me know if it is, as I couldn't see anything other than shrink to fit, which was useless.
I'll go away and have another look at Flickr and Mashups next...
Its using the blogger add a page element functionality to add a picture. A bit basic as resizing the picture option would have been really handy. Someone let me know if it is, as I couldn't see anything other than shrink to fit, which was useless.
I'll go away and have another look at Flickr and Mashups next...
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