Google Books

I was able to get into Google Books today. I like it, although it obviously has a US focus.
The next TALISPlus upgrade is going to include links to Google Books where available which will be good.
I quite often come across Google Books pages when i am searching the web for information on a particular topic - it's really good when you can actually see the pages of the book, i always wish i could see the whole lot.

Google Tools

Google Docs

I do some volunteer work for a sporting organisation, and we use google docs sometimes to share things like rosters etc when we are working on them before the season starts. They're pretty handy when you're geographically dispersed.

Google Maps

I love Google Maps. I use them to find out how to get places, to look at the top of my house, estimate driving times - very handy they are.

Google Book Search is down as i write this post. It is the only one of the three i haven't really used much, as such i will investigate at a later date.

MySpace & Facebook

I found looking around the library MySpace pages quite interesting. Most libraries seem to be using it as a tool to reach their teenage and young adult clients, with differring levels of success. I did notice that the libraries with the most friends (friends that weren't other libraries or library professionals) and comments were those who were providing other impressive library services for these same client groups.
I do like the way the National Library of New Zealand is using MySpace as a legal deposit tool -pretty cool http://www.myspace.com/beheardforever

As for Facebook, I am already a convert. I'm one of those who uses it to keep in touch with friends, share photos, organise events, etc etc, oh and of course play scrabulous ;)

RSS and feedreaders

I'm a big fan of the RSS feed. I like getting things like abc offbeat news and stuff like that. Thing I don't like about it is that feeds are often very text based - i like having feeds that include images - captures my interest.

I like how the SLT uses ABC RSS on the newspaper section of the website.

I had a look at the recommended readers, but I prefer my netvibes (www.netvibes.com) where I can display my feeds nicely, also integrating my facebook, gmail, flickr, etc. I have added a few RSS feeds to my blog too.

Gingerbread

I embedded this straight from http://www.imagechef.com/ , which was good, but didn't allow me to write something at the same time. Thought it was a fitting image as the address of this blog is crunchygingerbread.

Whilst looking around Flickr, I found a very nice shot taken in Mt William National Park where I went camping over easter this year.

This image can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kahkityoong/874530659/

After leaving Mt William National Park we headed to Coles Bay for a few days and saw this view every morning. Can't complain too much about that ;)

Both these images are by the same guy - Kah Kit Yoong - seems we have been visiting the same places.

This image can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kahkityoong/542409007/

Tuesday morning

Well, as is obvious from the title, it's Tuesday morning.
Fairly standard really, thought i'd create this blog for the Learning 2.0 program, and interestingly it still had my profile pic and stuff when i created a blog for SRS a few months ago. Shouldn't be surprised really... google is pretty good...