Scott's Library Blog =): March 2010

Sunday, March 28, 2010

My chosen podcast that i have decided to do is the La Trobe University

link: http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/podcasts/

It offers a range of casts on Library tours, finding materials, using the library and information about their reserve collections.

If anyone is interested in following them the podcatching link ((RSS feed)) is

http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/rss/podcast.xml

Chosen Wiki

The wiki I have chosen to do is http://dhs.wikispaces.com/

It is basically the Dectaur High School Library. So :P choose ya own, good luck peeps.

What I found interesting about this website is its course contents and how it dedicates pages to the subjects like with the title on the main page telling you the month flavour which is Womens History

month. Another feature I find quite interesting in this Wiki are the pathfinder links to other quite authoritative as well as interesting to the subjects at hand.

Types of applications that could be incorporated into a wiki like this like calenders and times and dates that can be edited at any time, help-desk queries at real time speed with out having to be face to face and even general work place information that can be updated such as schedules and other types of information.

thats pretty much all I have to say at the moment but expect a full critical citation of Decatur High School Library tomorrow.

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Google Buzz

Here's another interesting web 2 app i found, it is called Google Buzz and was recently released along side Googles new mail application called Google Wave.

Google buzz essentially is part of Gmail, but making it more of a socal thing that allows you to share your pictures with your designated friends, share news and relay chat to them via the application, sharing photos and so forth. I think its quite nifty, because as people know i'm not a fan of websites like face book or my space, i just find them to chaotic and clutered, but Buzz it self is neat, simple and extremely organised.

As I mentioned earlier in my post, to use this application you must have a Google Gmail account and down the left hand side of the bar just under the Inbox link you will find it there. There is no direct link to this feature but a sign up page can be found here: http://www.google.com/buzz

Enjoy ya blogging people!

Plupper: Live chat and service feedback Widget and real time chat

Hi again foaks, been looking around the web at various web 2 stuff and this one sparked my interest. For you people who love instant messenger a.k.a MSN, AIM, Yahoo and so forth this little web 2 app is for you

It is called Plupper and from my experiences with it has been quite the amusing little thing to actually sit down and play with, It offers you a variety of chat programs to log into like msn, aim and yahoo as well as the more newer chat protocols on social gathering sites like Face book, MySpace. It also gives you the options to use the older chat protocols like IRC ((Internet Relay chat)) Xampp and other things that were decades before modern messenging.

Other little features has hidden about is its site are games you can play people over it and live video links ((which was a hassle in my opinion to set up via it since you need to know what ports to open and make the website reconise you your web cam)) and voice chat over the appropriate messengers.

Link to the site: http://www.plupper.com/

That pretty much all I have to say on this for now, gonna critically evaluate this on Tuesday along side other thing.