tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76696580719006376762024-03-21T02:43:47.871+13:00lupi not the olive oillupi not the olive oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10464829313827674109noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669658071900637676.post-25552041119886895292010-08-10T22:59:00.014+12:002010-08-29T19:31:26.629+12:00Author, author - what's your perspective?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZCVOcYu2MPzjwTWO6SqDqtMMUGGwigsn2iCTvZ0f4hccZ17qh8e0aVHAQr6WMBFSDioZ-cTqtZyAlvbsZI_g7AuOIwSLMzz0-fH9o5Zo2DHoc-XSt55nNiVCuRCaPW597a-uHCVB3YVBp/s1600/emerson.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 195px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5510730862526846578" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZCVOcYu2MPzjwTWO6SqDqtMMUGGwigsn2iCTvZ0f4hccZ17qh8e0aVHAQr6WMBFSDioZ-cTqtZyAlvbsZI_g7AuOIwSLMzz0-fH9o5Zo2DHoc-XSt55nNiVCuRCaPW597a-uHCVB3YVBp/s200/emerson.jpg" /></a> <span style="color:#333300;"><strong><em><span style="color:#330000;">There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.</span></em></strong><br /></span><br /><div><div><div><strong><em><span style="color:#003333;">Ralph Waldo Emerson</span></em></strong></div><div><strong><em><span style="color:#003333;">(American essayist and poet, 1803-1882)</span></em></strong></div><br /><br /><br /><div></div><div>We each put our own interpretations on what we read, so to hear from the authors themselves can sometimes be an enlightening experience, depending on whether or not your "translation" followed the authors' intent. You might read a book before you've seen or heard anything of the author, yet get a whole new perspective when you hear the author talk about the work. That is one of the joys of reading and writing, though - there is generally no right or wrong! </div><br /><br /><div>I had no joy finding any of my preferred authors on the several sites I tried (I'm not sure what that says about my reading habits?) so I browsed and chose some I was familiar with. Most are on my "to read" list at this point, so it was good to hear the authors talk and know that yes, I really do want to catch up with their writing. It does seem easier to find talks or interviews with fiction writers, but there were 2 sites that I was drawn to more than others. Both had nice layouts, the information was easy to follow, and having the authors listed down the left hand side of <a href="http://www.powells.com/authors/interviews.html">Powell's Books</a> made browsing much easier than many others. The podcasts from the <a href="http://libwww.freelibrary.org/podcast/">Free Library of Philadelphia</a> were easy to access and I may even download some to my MP3 player and listen to them at my leisure. There are several here from authors I have been intending to read, so this will keep them on my radar! I will check back with <a href="http://authorsontourlive.com/">Authors on tour live</a> in a couple of months to see if Jon Katz, who has a new book of fiction coming out, after some years of writing non-fiction, and who will be touring to promote it, features at all. Through following his blog, and reading his numerous books, I'm now very interested in hearing him speak. I'm sure our patrons too would be interested in knowing about some of these sites, so any opportunity we have to inform them of such things can surely only add to their enjoyment and enrichment, too. </div></div></div>lupi not the olive oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10464829313827674109noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669658071900637676.post-43858954127086323292010-08-01T14:12:00.012+12:002010-08-29T18:50:58.627+12:00Readers and booklovers - always hunting for the next one<a href="http://www.art.com/products/p14425794-sa-i3024618/jim-and-jamie-dutcher-gray-wolf-canis-lupus-makes-tracks-through-a-snowy-landscape.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=0&dimvals=5047004&ui=7a851ba5d5574cd59e5d4a974b6e1298"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 160px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 120px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502589438515952210" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSR8r0GNHZGVdlKkDbWAU1bDonVd_srTqzCn9naghH6cwCISsbob3EU4Hazqd3Ktilru15UHHlw87pDP3heMFJMYx9LSs7kzkJw5njy9Cl3XbpJi5cG9SOpcpz9JY2fiMlIQAY47MSh97R/s320/jim-and-jamie-dutcher-gray-wolf_-canis-lupus_-makes-tracks-through-a-snowy-landscape.jpg" /></a> <strong><em><span style="color:#3333ff;">A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint... What I began by reading I must finish by acting.</span></em></strong><br /><strong><em><span style="color:#333399;">Henry David Thoreau</span></em></strong><br /><br /><br /><br />As librarians, at the core of our work day are Books! We buy them, we read them, we promote them - and we just never run out of a "to read" list! I already find it a challenge to get through my 'borrowings' and my basket of future reads is added to every day, so I fear becoming a regular browser/user of these online book groups - I may never surface if I get too immersed in them. The one factor that will make it easier for me to turn away from these dens of pleasure is that many tend more to discussions on fiction, which I don't dip into much. And as this programme has already impacted on the time I spend sitting at the computer, when I would usually more than likely be reading a book - well, that would be craziness indeed to spend time looking for yet more treasures to fill my mind (and notebook) with. I looked at several sites, but didn't really have any great joy with the titles I went hunting for, although I did discover a favourite author is soon to publish another book, which is a sort of follow-on to his previous book which I count amongst my all-time treasures. That was a very happy find!<br /><br /><br /><br />We are constantly hearing about the many new devices appearing, giving people more options as to how - and where - they do their reading, but one thing is obvious from the abundance of these online groups - the written word will never die. I also don't believe the physical book will disappear anytime soon - if anything, our online world seems to have given a fresh "push" to the publishing world. It seems easier for people to get published today, with no apparent negative impact on the 'best seller' market - and of course people are so eager to join in discussions, be it online, in book groups (organised or informal), one-on-one or with their neighbour or friendly librarian! We can rest assured there is no shortage whatsoever of places to go a-hunting for the next recommended read!lupi not the olive oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10464829313827674109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669658071900637676.post-81767148680649305312010-08-01T00:52:00.011+12:002010-08-10T20:38:45.685+12:00Clever Google docs and File converters<div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.soliddocuments.com"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 190px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 126px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500336454035010002" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Ul5uV7ks7G8yG7ZzySc_Vwt1YCqoksjMkgq8WEuBU021LAIRfyVWPL4sa1Fm7VzGkV36LzApEaSmERZS7Y2p29WhbBJO2ypbxfi-AKgbu24WVrS767_ywY8XnzfHY3s1U20eAzRNnu2C/s200/documents.jpg" /></a> </div><br /><div><strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">I'll be happy to make these unnecessary changes to this irrelevant document.</span></em></strong><br /></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#ff6666;"><em> Dilbert</em> </span></strong></div><br /><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#ff6666;"></span></strong> </div><div><strong><span style="color:#ff6666;">(cartoon created by Scott Adams, American cartoonist, b.1957)</span></strong></div><br /><br /><div>What a nice surprise Google docs is. We're often apprehensive over the plaintive cry for help when documents at the Internet stations can't be opened, so this little gem could be the answer when the usual "tricks" fail. While the image from our "test" document got lost somewhere along the transfer trail, and some of the fonts and formatting changed, it wasn't too dramatic a change, and didn't affect the information itself. We are pretty used to having to relearn formulas and formats when new versions of Word, Excel, etc appear, so this isn't too different. I tried another quite large document, with lots of columns, and was quite satisfied with how it came through. There wasn't a lot of change apparent, other than the loss of some 'bullets' - and its' quite straightforward to delete documents, with a nice "safety" option in case you decided you didn't really want to delete! All in all, this is a very nice tool, quite straightforward to use, and one I will endeavour to put to work. I haven't yet looked at any of the other file converters, nor revisited Zoho, but just knowing these tools are out there is enough for me at this point. I fear I'm approaching my information overload point, and need to stop, take a breath, and digest the bounty. Google continues it's march to conquer us all - but at least we can play and learn, and have some fun along the way - or if it really gets too much, you could try this!<img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 253px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 183px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502491063996535586" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL4lVJISCDmfrCaJYC648V4SN0Rc_B_QZvdTOalWJQaNeWWJX8aVK8KqXxxmrhSFzVtfXnbDfPghZWMQckAYX0UWX06DW0P_rRDSCA0TJFA8fusaPYY5Fv3MIfpd3YRjwgBnlhEEh9Ms4x/s200/securedownload.jpg" /></div>lupi not the olive oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10464829313827674109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669658071900637676.post-6164150746622791002010-07-30T23:22:00.013+12:002010-08-10T20:23:48.475+12:00Still chugging and chuffing...<a href="http://www.durangotrain.com/scrapbook/trains"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 122px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 164px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499930653669564450" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgljVSOPDTaWAZ2oyi5ZwuLCYIZR_yy1wUQPirDb-JMYbTiE_foBev7gYdeAeDlrpyj8BU4PVfmhvKCe3eDHNLr3bXsGkDiaYwZ3eg9o3MzSXggO7cYAQzoiktx-ZM4WzQsNLq2OCBbKw0s/s200/Durango&Silverton+Railroad+LashmettFallTrain.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><em><strong><span style="color:#ffcc66;">I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.</span></strong> </em><br /><br /><div><strong><em><span style="color:#999900;"> Erma Bombeck (US humorist 1927-1996)</span></em></strong></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><strong><em></em></strong></div><div>Having once again got myself way off track, spending time fruitlessly going around YouTube, my mind truly feels like it is on overload and almost ready to blow up. Nor do the frustrations of an incredibly slow broadband help the situation. While it has been fun exploring again, it makes you so aware of how much time you can all too quickly fritter away as you seek here, there and everywhere through the invisible ether. Sometimes you don't end up any the wiser, either. Blinkx is nice to use and I like the way they categorise and display the various sources, although I didn't have any success trying to view the full clips of several I tried. They feature an impressive selection of news organisations, although weighted rather heavily towards US sites. The major international players are present, but a wider global lineup would improve the balance. I can certainly see myself doing more exploring in Blinkx, though.</div><br /><div>I'm not convinced about the usefulness of magazine searching in Google Books. As most magazines have their own sites anyway, I really can't think why you would want to use Google to search for a particular article? Databases such as Proquest would be a more useful option, and more up-to-date. It is nice to be able to browse through some of the magazines though, to get a "feel" for them - advertisements and all - to see if maybe you would really like to subscribe to a title. I'm looking forward to stumbling across more "happy accidents" as I continue through Google Book Search, though. </div>lupi not the olive oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10464829313827674109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669658071900637676.post-41324269844093988112010-07-17T20:50:00.020+12:002010-08-10T16:41:10.632+12:00Chugging through Search Engines<a href="http://www.paulridenour.com/wyoming.htm"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499911546542937042" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3rJeEZWmcdMI6-mr-8OvoiP2vfR2CHrBFcvQzC1b_n3oOMpIfThwJqVXLHjnLY94XKJSsZHiM4NLNTXX7tu7WOr7XsC0zaj3HsE03T4QwtqYYijSecub-aKCdtV88P4G9PRLpZd2BqEO3/s200/Steam+train.jpg" border="0" /></a> <strong><em><span style="color:#cc0000;">When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.</span></em></strong><br /><br /><div><div><strong><em><span style="color:#336666;">Ursula K. Le Guin</span></em></strong></div><br /><br /><br /><div>Well, this has certainly been an exhausting exercise, and I feel my learnings about Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ezalead et al are only just beginning. Having said that, I don't feel inclined to poke too much more deeply as I feel almost on the brink of overload. It is certainly helpful to know about all these options, but as you're trying to take in everything, it ends up just too overwhelming that you feel like shouting "Stop the train - I want to get off". It's taken me some time to get over my aversion to the apparent omnipotent power of Google, but looking at some of these other options has given me a new appreciation for this power, and thinking Google does actually do a very good job handling the incredible abundance of "information" out there. I haven't used the Wonder Wheel or Timeline features before, but I can see the potential for using these when you need more depth or clarity on issues, and will look forward to being able to put them to good use in the future. The Advanced Search in Yahoo is nice in the way you can filter sites by domain name e.g. by .com, .edu, .gov, etc, although I imagine you can also do this with others. That's something I'll try to remember to check out. There is much more of a commercial slant to Bing, and I liked the look of the Exalead page - it displayed nicely, and the thumbnails were quite useful. The filters for site type - blogs, forums - were also helpful if you were looking for those in particular. On the whole, all the sites were relatively easy to navigate around and the options nicely set out, and are well worth knowing about. We all get comfortable with our own preferences, but the more we experiment with the alternatives, the more we'll be able to appreciate the differences.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/flickr.com/photos/two_wheeler/3039731131/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500049427810018658" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 87px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 130px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-L8elxr6oYt6s-57HrWxEWZyZLWH7o0CIAoATM4tgPA79t1K8oTwrNBQR31LxAqjHcnuHsRvthR0CcZJnGZeaATDEKp4cFjdBe2ARhn3WThAVp-3fvoSbw6Gr5cOGOmLWtLFOodtSBQ4j/s200/Wolf+track.jpg" border="0" /></a>Just another step along the trail in our ever-expanding quest for information... </div></div>lupi not the olive oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10464829313827674109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669658071900637676.post-67338376343775817092010-07-03T19:20:00.007+12:002010-07-31T17:12:24.418+12:00Google - Alert to the World<a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.artofwolves.com/posters.htm"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 191px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 144px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494727618970420146" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYkU0J43tx48d4Ce66eq-rOrRg5Ee4zUdTEkt9QBKpv6DGhgf2nqJBcN-M5cMHF4HB14VKzuV94pomuKgVx2FmvnRu4YTQBvmujrTUVrbTyov8v0_7_-pPeWZvyURf5piZGyM7LTd3nh5x/s200/cwc-grey-wolf.jpg" /></a> <span style="color:#009900;"><strong><em>Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used.</em></strong></span><br /><div></div><br /><div><strong><em><span style="color:#660000;">Dr Carl Sagan</span></em></strong></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><div>A really nice thing about the Web 2.0 programme is how we get a chance to "play" with various web tools that we would otherwise no doubt just bypass or ignore completely, albeit more from the fact we either don't know what they can do, or that they even exist. Most people, myself included, tend to only use the search function of Google, including images and maps, but 'Alerts' is another useful part of the Google Empire. I set up 2 alerts, one very general - Major League Baseball - which I am happy with so far as the "dailies" act as a kind of "highlights" package, but I may play with this in future to concentrate more on the couple of teams I particularly follow. My other alert was more specific, using a search term that I wouldn't have thought of myself, but which came up in a result I got from another Google search. I am well satisfied with the results produced for "Greater Yellowstone wolf population" with a nice variety of items which fit the search criteria well. While set to daily, results haven't come through every day, but they are regular and so far no duplicates, which is good news when you are wanting to filter out as much unnecessary information as you can. This is something I will likely continue with via another email account, and would suggest it to patrons if there is a particular event, or they have an interest in a particular area that they would like to focus on. A clever idea and relatively simple to set-up, but a useful little tool to "assist" us in our ever-expanding and for some, insatiable, quest for information. Just don't forget you can also turn off the flow when it all gets too much! </div>lupi not the olive oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10464829313827674109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669658071900637676.post-31835558580697947132009-11-29T22:47:00.018+13:002010-07-31T17:07:36.323+12:00Alert - Today's news feed, tomorrow's food wrap<a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wolves/bangs.html"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 135px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489534961754829330" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbtzLuziMEqJUg57d7F8rff-vI3I0sSgcrTHdGrgpfXMmhKKLwptvT2rUPq4yzqbl1uopkCAIvaExiWThyIAYCE8z5BAnHaD35r-iGOAgymPdJ24buAARBr-GLKyIR1jVMW1BZybxMjIFA/s200/Wolves+feding+on+deer.jpg" /></a><br /><div><span style="color:#6600cc;"><em><strong>Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.</strong></em></span> </div><br /><div><em><strong><span style="color:#6633ff;">Kurt Vonnegut, Jr</span></strong></em></div><br /><br /><div></div><div>We all know just how easily - and how much - information is accessible today, so to have tools like email alerts and RSS feeds to assist us in sifting through some of the deluge is good news. AccessScience is relatively easy and straightforward to use, but Proquest is another story. Setting up email alerts was a simple task, but I experienced the same problems as others when it came to RSS feeds. I wasn't won over with RSS in '23 Things' but I did persevere here, and it worked on the second try. My first search strategy gave some good results, but when nothing more appeared over the following several weeks, I refined my search terms. Once this was done, I was satisfied with the results delivered, although actually accessing the articles is rather frustrating. Somehow, to have to copy and paste the link seems a backward step, but fortunately this isn't so with most RSS feeds. Because of this messy process, I'm not sure I'd especially recommend Proquest for RSS feeds. Having now set up feeds and alerts, though, I have yet more information accumulating, and will feel obliged to have to return to it from time to time. However, feeling like I already spend more than enough time interacting with a computer screen, rather than Life, this information junkie may soon be turning off those feeds... Sometimes you just have to know when to say "STOP". </div>lupi not the olive oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10464829313827674109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669658071900637676.post-14977193838534986212009-11-25T19:29:00.015+13:002009-11-29T07:57:38.782+13:00Libraries and Twitter - should we? Will you follow?<div align="justify"><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells<a href="http://www.alaska-in-pictures.com/gray-wolves-pack-yellowstone-national-park-10663-pictures.htm"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407925055843590738" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 134px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiGWpoFlZx2M7mjwmJ_loVfcv1it_eu7gxuCmmVtu-0P1sQekueH__Wr136Mi9AVbQggY2LR-6RDYfpLUN7Y-aUBpESIF5hSUB6KKkE0P3y0ZMVF7oXC7hG9_htWnNBA8Cg2piPD20s6NZ/s200/gray-wolves-pack_10663.jpg" border="0" /></a> existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air.</span></strong> </div><br /><strong><em><span style="color:#000099;">Leonardo da Vinci</span></em></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#333399;">(artist, architect, musician and scientist), 1452-1519</span></strong><br /><br /><div align="justify"><span style="color:#993300;">Time is the one thing we all seem to be short of, yet here we are still exploring the ever-expanding cyberworld. Where will it all end? This exercise has thrown up some nice library twitter pages, with quite a variety of styles. Most tweets appear to be being posted by often only 1 or 2 librarians at each institution, and there didn't seem to be a lot of interaction on many of the ones I looked at. Most content seemed to be promoting library events or resources - always a good thing - and I really liked the tweets on the College of Du Page, Glen Ellyn (Illinois) "<a href="http://twitter.com/librarysecrets">LibrarySecrets</a>" page, and they have a good following, so it looks as though a lot of other people like them as well. Rodney Libraries has a chatty style and a mix of library and 'newsy' tweets, but at least the language is clear. <a href="http://www.online-literature.com/hawthorne/">Nathaniel Hawthorne</a> said <strong><span style="color:#cc6600;"><em>"Easy reading is damn hard writing",</em></span></strong> and with only 140 characters available for a tweet, good skills in the art of writing must surely be a real asset? </span></div><br /><div align="justify"><span style="color:#993300;">If NSL were twittering, a tweet about the Northcote Maori Collection could look something like this - <strong><em><span style="color:#cc0000;">"</span><span style="color:#660000;"><span style="color:#cc0000;">Mā te huruhuru te manu ka rere ai / With feathers a bird can fly". Come and meet Manu Aute</span> </span><span style="color:#cc0000;">and browse her treasures.</span></em></strong> </span></div>lupi not the olive oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10464829313827674109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669658071900637676.post-88392421386349311722009-11-24T20:00:00.013+13:002009-11-25T23:13:30.353+13:00Twitter searching - (not) hunting in the deep?<div align="justify"><strong><span style="color:#990000;">“The fact is,<a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/whale-watch/team-minke-sets-off-on-whale-count/2007/12/14/1197568264741.html"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407936480550437906" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 213px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 129px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9BCcocuqkNMtAxWP9wwj-utM7gwNRB4yMcSiGU6qX4koEC1FmX5y_Bvlyp-EUAYWmL1D4hQ7MDeoTKkx8oahHkY2F41HjEIH4tcodG3oMhyashwLRhq9HC6VfjGwMMSZEf77sguWIEYJg/s200/antarctic_wideweb__470x291,2.jpg" border="0" /></a> that among his hunters at least, the whale would by all hands be considered a noble dish, were there not so much of him; but when you come to sit down before a meat-pie nearly one hundred feet long, it takes away your appetite.” </span></strong></div><div align="justify"></div><strong><em><span style="color:#006600;"><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="right"> Herman Melville, </span></em></strong><strong><span style="color:#993300;">'Moby Dick' (1851)</span></strong></div><div align="justify"><strong><span style="color:#993300;"></span></strong></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#000000;"><br />And my appetite for searching Twitter has certainly been taken away on this exercise. I guess I like my information in more than just the mini-bites dished up by Twitter, and in plain english rather than the 'tinglish' that seems to abound. For some people Twitter may be all they need or want, and that's okay, but it's not really for this lobo, I feel. After striking out with my first search about the resumption of the sanctioned shooting of wolves again in the Greater Yellowstone region, (I used various brief search strings, but almost everything that came back involved the movie "Twilight") I revised my search and went looking for "Japanese whaling". There were some good results on the Twitter search engine, although I did feel somewhat cheated at the very brief accounts, because understandably you can't convey a heck of a lot information on such a subject in only 140 characters. The links to longer articles or posts were helpful, though, and I can see in the coming weeks it could be a very good way of keeping track of what is happening as this year's "whaling season" gets underway in the Antarctic, so I may yet find myself making more use of this. TweepSearch wasn't the right option for this particular topic, but I did like Twoogle, and if I were to do any regular visiting to Twitter, this would probably be my search engine of choice. You can get your tweets and your meat, so to speak, in the one search, satisfying the news junkie side of me, and giving some real-time news-bytes at the same time. So, it would definitely depend on what you were searching for, but this could be worth persevering with, after all...</span></div><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000066;"></span></strong>lupi not the olive oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10464829313827674109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669658071900637676.post-86683089697692938602009-11-17T18:01:00.011+13:002009-11-24T19:59:40.701+13:00What's the tweet, tell me what's happening...<a href="http://www.scottianbarry.com/photo06.htm"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404952585774680834" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 130px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 159px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggspHkroHbAtzdJiZp_P9lU9f-UxTdC37rX9Mgh3RaJpE49LFch0sUygQ6qRWmD_4wEORg7fIUrHSfB6Lf0sV3Vsy62-BeFEshGoghJhK5hyphenhyphent3SH-ZcL7cNt70e0h-ciJ53SXshVJWw51R/s200/It's+a+bird2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#cc33cc;">“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”</span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><em><span style="color:#993399;">Henry David Thoreau</span></em></strong> </div><div><strong><span style="color:#663366;">(American essayist, poet and philosopher, 1817-1862), <em>Journal</em>, 19 August 1851 </span></strong></div><br /><br /><div></div><div>Like this wolf photographed by <a href="http://www.scottianbarry.com/">Scott Ian Barry</a>, peering up into the tree at a bird and looking rather puzzled, so too am I rather puzzled - by Twitter. Things such as Twitter have an unnerving ability to make me feel as though I'm too old and crusty to appreciate them properly, and maybe I am, but it seems to me that some people really could (and perhaps should) spend their time at better pursuits. The Internet has become such an extension of peoples' everyday lives, but just because you "can" do it, it doesn't necessarily mean you "should" join the latest online fad or fashion. I looked at Dr Maya Angelou's page and maybe she was "experimenting", but she only "tweeted" 4 times over 5 days - back in February. Perhaps she's found she prefers other ways of occupying her time? </div><div></div><div><br />There was quite a variety in the number and frequency of tweets on various accounts I looked at, and if it wasn't for this exercise, I doubt I would have even looked at that many. The content of the tweeting was as varied as the different tweeters and their subjects - but for someone who has only recently entered the world of phone texting, the <a href="http://twitter.com/cookbook">Cookbook via Twitter</a> to me was just a mess! I'm afraid I couldn't be bothered trying to 'translate' it, and can't really see the point in that one! I regularly follow a <a href="http://blog.bedlamfarm.com/">blog by author Jon Katz</a>, and he also has a <a href="http://twitter.com/katzinbedlam">Twitter</a> account, which I decided to check out. I can see the uses of Twitter, and I think Jon Katz's works well, combining tweets about events with thoughts and musings, without being too inane. I really like his attitude to all this though. He is currently incommunicado from his blogging and tweeting while he is taking an extended weekend break in the Big Apple - and reconnecting with real people, friends and family, in his life. However, from what I have discovered so far on this exercise, I am unlikely to be a regular follower of anyone on Twitter, and it doesn't entice me to become a tweeter myself - yet. Who knows what I'll discover when I do some Twitter searching for myself...</div>lupi not the olive oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10464829313827674109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669658071900637676.post-34028559558136598322009-11-10T22:21:00.033+13:002009-11-13T23:22:00.409+13:00Creative Commons - to share or not?<div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#ff6600;">"There is no delight in owning anything unshared"</span></strong><br /><br /></div><a href="http://www.twilightearth.com/archive/photos/photo-sunday-isle-royale-wolves-and-moose/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403483355780850850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnsdCY9k4YW-S9nT_lodZlDC5_hEl5QGYehdHxpcxzxy8XMJM3xROX7S9FgG6YbQcbqaA0ptHenjFAtjEwhta3ewjQD4E9pOBSK16yzaleOSXF5ZTi86oMHCowwuOjOXvqDzGuxzRvMKep/s200/isle-royal-wolf-moose-study-150x150.jpg" border="0" /></a> <p align="center"><br /><span style="color:#666666;"><strong><span style="color:#336666;">Seneca (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)</span></strong><br /></span><br /></p><p align="left"></p><p align="left">I loved this beautiful crisp image of prints in the snow and the story around how the photographer got the photo. I hope I'm as lucky some day. Have a peek at this <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/13909675@N08/2162477433/sizes/o/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/13909675@N08/2162477433/sizes/o/</a> This comes with a Creative Commons license which has some rights reserved - attribution, non-commercial and share alike (BY-NC-SA), 2.0 generic. So this lovely image may be shared, remixed, tweaked, and built upon for non-commercial purposes, as long as credit is given to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/13909675@N08/">m.d.d.</a> and the new creation must be licensed under his identical terms.</p><div align="justify">The Creative Commons licence for the "Get With It" programme is BY-NC 3.0 New Zealand. This licence lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this work noncommercially and although new works must acknowledge NSL and be noncommercial, they don't have to license their works on the same terms.</div><br /><div align="justify">Copyright is full of many issues, and with such a multitude of new and different means of accessing and using all this stuff, it's really good to know that you are able to at least try to retain some kind of intellectual property rights over works you may create by licensing something in this way.</div>lupi not the olive oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10464829313827674109noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669658071900637676.post-18067052296072182632009-11-06T18:51:00.029+13:002009-11-13T23:11:33.053+13:00OpenID - WHO are YOU? (Who, Who) Who's asking??<a href="http://thebsreport.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/todays-birthday-bio-sigmund-freud/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402780992887155586" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 142px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 144px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwkLYkijDiOHEiyQpSQQgxmkkyQQWudk5eRKX0gv-0vEwIaAMn2bscuy4Mp_qMXMXv_0jywVx8Wr4s1KoxJRp7TzgtAurdvhsEZyMc7BrzgwpLqPjw0-OLyWvDcnXLRKz1Q9y3KTSOwtvX/s200/Freud.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><em><strong><span style="color:#6600cc;"></span></strong></em></div><div><em><strong><span style="color:#6600cc;">"</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#6633ff;">Where id was, there shall ego be"</span></strong></em><br /><br /><span style="color:#333399;"><strong>Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />OpenID sounds good in theory, and no doubt for people who do spend a lot of time online, it is probably a very useful thing to know about, but I don't think I'm likely to "sign on". It sounds a bit like letting someone else have the keys, and forget that you should be taking some responsibility yourself for your own online security and wellbeing. We hear stories about the 'fun' some people like to derive from creating online mischief - why should OpenID be any different? Personally I have better things to do with my time, but I know there are plenty of people out there who would delight in being able to indulge in some 'online vandalism' and OpenID could be a great place to stir such havoc. We seem to be all-too-quick to leap to new ways of making our lives 'easier', but like everything - the more gadgetry, the more there is to beware of. I will certainly keep my eye out for the OpenID tag and icon on sites, though, and if I feel it could be helpful in the future, I may give it a go. In the meantime, I'll keep charge of my own 'identities', and make sure my doors and windows remain my responsibility. </div>lupi not the olive oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10464829313827674109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669658071900637676.post-22654843981937072952009-10-23T17:37:00.015+13:002009-11-06T18:36:53.518+13:00Making trails through Online Privacy and Security<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbJ-Wq9kngsIYZMkeRWy2h317ezr-yFX4Z6SJhzMheJwd4RNb34XV08pm0NDRFXFWhHn4yMjXUJUtQ3DvJwgHzmVuB3_vmlv71_EuGbr0E7bnVcseNgQuaHhNhurwMXdAKEJAtkWnKypIy/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396441029815167714" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 142px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 95px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbJ-Wq9kngsIYZMkeRWy2h317ezr-yFX4Z6SJhzMheJwd4RNb34XV08pm0NDRFXFWhHn4yMjXUJUtQ3DvJwgHzmVuB3_vmlv71_EuGbr0E7bnVcseNgQuaHhNhurwMXdAKEJAtkWnKypIy/s200/images.jpg" border="0" /></a><strong><span style="color:#990000;">"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." </span></strong><br /><strong><em><span style="color:#006600;">Helen Keller (1880-1968)</span></em></strong><br /><br />Online security is something I find myself wrestling with quite a bit lately, having recently got myself "connected" at home, so this exercise is personally very timely. We can all too quickly and easily overlook it, or simply take it for granted, believing our electronic toys are as secure as the locks and bolts on our doors and windows. After all, who would want to get inside these little boxes and snoop - or steal - their contents? We still don't perceive these cyber-thieves to be as dangerous as the commonplace burglar, when potentially there is no end to the mischief that could be caused should the snoop happen to get inside this box. The more I've been exploring various options recently, the less I feel I know, and trust, about the whole business of cyber-security. Once we go online, it's so, so easy to get lost in this other-world, and leave behind our cautionary instincts - and naively leave lots of little trails to follow in the process. And there are so many trails to tempt us all into following - all you have to do is "click".<br /><br />The resources given for this exercise were very useful, and certainly worth sharing with friends, family and patrons. The information on the <a href="http://us.mcafee.com/en-us/local/docs/US_Internet_Safety_Plan.pdf">McAfee</a> and <a href="http://www.netsafe.org.nz/index_for_ie6.htm">Netsafe</a> sites was well put together, but I couldn't help thinking much of it was good old common sense - which is perhaps an instinct being eroded by so much time being spent in an online world? While you can never be completely "safe", you can certainly minimise the risk.<br /><br />I'm intrigued by keepass and password generator - they certainly would have been useful for 23 Things, and I will certainly keep them in mind should I find passwords, usernames, etc getting out of control. However, before we came to rely on this electronic access as part of our daily lives, how did we keep track of our personal matters? We took care to keep control of such things, so why do we drop our guard so much with regard to electronic "gate-keeping"? Some patrons may be happy to know about them, but it is yet another thing to keep track of.<br /><br />So, just like the wolves in the western United States who, try as they might can't avoid the danger of the guns which are once again sadly being trained on them, so must we be alert to the dangers abounding in this "connected" and exposed world. We can't completely close the shutters, nor let our guard down, but we can still explore in a safe way if we stay aware and pay attention to the signs around us - and keep that security up-to-date.lupi not the olive oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10464829313827674109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669658071900637676.post-38762235515373656042008-10-11T14:33:00.017+13:002008-11-18T18:13:35.601+13:00Web who.0 - Journeys end?<a href="http://gorp.away.com/gorp/publishers/lyonspress/decade-of-the-wolf-1.html"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255722418403729314" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0z4WTBsNhf_M7gyie2AgWDoOWr-eaHj59OQmrUSvbc82G2o2LfTM-DWfq9lB-FY3TpcKB_o0hNCBkAqPBMN2JGukvvo5MzARPg_HgC3oFI7PmfOLWsmsYd-au1wBDIioRZB5XScYiM-9S/s200/wolf-pack-trail.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg22M-ae4vPC1p3cLutSKyotCpMjPw21vXWozIbQi2DQaiBKmObi7tNTLGPetSQEd41Pxmp3JNm25YcFpCBmx6kM-EWNbk__H7SObKRVwwEfZiAMDKfoWwy-BT9hZJ0czojznsHGTYOVxUn/s1600-h/wolf-pack-trail.jpg"></a><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#cc0000;">A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step</span></strong></div><div><strong><em><span style="color:#009900;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi">Lao-Tzu</a></span></em></strong><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKe2XPr0_qeJYwSdqnniQFEGcNWBizGVA0x98tqYD1H13F3RXpxPxSlRVwAJx2S-RN5kwMT6ZAnVQMatXZ4Y9IFZRQiRMkVqHmgzl6Z3YXMV0WNYMnjzTht5bbgMqsVs8iT-pA-TI-KEMO/s1600-h/wolveshowling.jpg"></a><div>Well, after this long journey, I must admit to feeling rather like a mama polar bear, emerging blinkingly into the spring sunshine from the winter hibernation, new babes in tow. The first days of this exploration did indeed seem a long time ago, and I know there were a number of us questioning the wisdom of the quest. But persevere we have, and we have learnt much along the way. Helen Keller once said <em><span style="color:#ff6600;">"Life is either a daring adventure - or nothing."</span></em><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD2KS8nPpQ4P-h2UZxxjE_p4Xy-zyZSEQNjBSQZJbWWNV81qisUa9VxNwhQMoci1uuuGiDGoIihZTrKtKszLi-C4DGf5pIDlRf_IsgyO-otLqJaLfeePw-gl3kEd86W0ldo96gFMpDcvyG/s1600-h/polarbearfamily.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255720663915747842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 165px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 113px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="120" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD2KS8nPpQ4P-h2UZxxjE_p4Xy-zyZSEQNjBSQZJbWWNV81qisUa9VxNwhQMoci1uuuGiDGoIihZTrKtKszLi-C4DGf5pIDlRf_IsgyO-otLqJaLfeePw-gl3kEd86W0ldo96gFMpDcvyG/s200/polarbearfamily.jpg" width="175" border="0" /></a></div><div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj11LjXPgL6vprS-CYoDgMCs8Ge-5YwN-1JipaLZfvE40j5vOILOMoR2TdVdGTKB1UkQzyOnSFsTzS38ofmPWJnul9rezUrLkqiTKtkiyh3cMjIVlaRZnouSSDPWbQyrG6IHVWhNM1qoBTl/s1600-h/125696~Two-Gray-Wolves-Touch-Noses-during-a-Tender-Moment-Posters.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255717610610837090" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj11LjXPgL6vprS-CYoDgMCs8Ge-5YwN-1JipaLZfvE40j5vOILOMoR2TdVdGTKB1UkQzyOnSFsTzS38ofmPWJnul9rezUrLkqiTKtkiyh3cMjIVlaRZnouSSDPWbQyrG6IHVWhNM1qoBTl/s200/125696~Two-Gray-Wolves-Touch-Noses-during-a-Tender-Moment-Posters.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />It's hard to pick highlights, so maybe I'll start with the lowlights, as they are quite fresh in my mind. I can't see that I'll hurry back to places like bebo, facebook or myspace for more explorations, apart from taking a peek at the NSL community there. Rollyo is also something I can't see a great deal of use for, personally, as well as finding it a bit clumsy to use.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.livingwithwolves.org/us.html"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255714722302242082" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlHVDVb7zUW4kQbpHMulvL59n0kFzRKui9b5wcokLKhEMqriEWsw9YH8iWyQ0jiMcMjTozT2gPfIvW2kozOWsUm1Xr_vSvOPtB5bzybku12Y4Oxfd10MaW61IQkeg6LmSlJWirFOFi5BS5/s200/jamiewLakota.jpg" border="0" /></a><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255714130387739666" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 186px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 135px" height="258" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ5zxS9iCGi_w8wlDkL0tnZ1wlAr43j-qni2x5nGXjtEe0ElJRlEE7hXJuwTjmKAJcGdMtkO4mN4p1u2T7OsJd5otNUGhGF1RrNwFLYH6-iQpWxFpdEdLMgxcXLDltX-4FPSEffGO1MyDt/s200/wolveshowling.jpg" width="217" border="0" /></div><div></div><div>RSS I still haven't come completely to grips with, but as I have moved on and done more exploring I have used it a little more, and can see the possibilities and usefulness of it as a way of keeping up-to-date with various topics that are of particular interest, and which you won't necessarily have a chance to seek out yourself. So not quite singing it's praises yet, but... (and you can guess where my quest here will focus on).</div><div></div><div></div><div>Exercises I did enjoy were much like some others whose comments I have read - Generators and YouTube were a lot of fun, places you can too easily while away hours and hours of time, being quite unsociable in the process if you're not careful. LibraryThing I will also probably continue to use. E-books was more enjoyable than I thought it would be, although this isn't a format I can picture myself using for my reading pleasure. I will have to remember to revisit Zoho and master some more of it's tools. I may be doing this the wrong way, but I have difficulty dropping images to my posts in the place I would prefer them, something Zoho is good for. Yet another skill to work on. Flickr and wikis are also places I will remember to come back to for some more exploring, once I have got over the fact we don't 'have' to anymore.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Some things I am still not convinced about are technorati and del.icio.us. Clever sites, and I can see their usefulness, but not for me I feel. Mashups are something I still need lots of practice with, but I can't imagine returning here just to 'play'.</div><div></div><div></div><div>So what have I learned? Life truly is a mystery. What gives sense to it is learning - learning that leads to insight and then to understanding. Irrespective of how long in the tooth we may be, all of us must be prepared to learn. Challenge assumptions - explore beliefs. Discover new trails; revisit old ones, and where needed - make fresh tracks. Let the pack sing out a collective howl of thanks to our alpha leaders, aka the NSL Web 2.0 Admin Team, who have marked out a path through the snow, mushed the way ahead and kept the pack (mostly) on task. </div><div>However, there are those among us who have ranged the rugged wilderness of cyberspace, on edge. Cautious and ever watchful - hackles up, neck ruff raised, noses lifted to the four winds. On guard - alone and independent. The lone maverick wolf - fringe guardian of the pack, curious but mistrustful of the material, and alert to all - seen and unseen - that flows by.</div><div>Just as wolves have been reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park, this Web 2.0 experience has reintroduced me to a professional landscape and convention I thought I knew well. However, on occasions I have felt like a recently released wolf might, liberated at last and left to fend for myself in an environment culturally familiar, yet disconcertingly foreign - all at the same time. I sought to avoid traps that could waylay me on the journey - and have only lost a little bit of fur along the way.</div><div></div><div>So - has it been worth it? <em>Sometimes</em>. I've really enjoyed the creative process week by week, thinking about the images and quotations I've used to illustrate my ideas - an acknowledgment to the innate and intuitive wisdom of the Great Spirit, and the connectedness of all things - a trait also inherent in <em>canis lupus</em>. The duties to consider the great drifts of information along this trail has been exhausting at times, and not entirely rewarding - akin at times to when the alpha leaders return to the den after the hunt - unrewarded! Owhoooo - no meat on the bone there! As H D Thoreau so aptly said -<span style="color:#990000;"> <strong><em>"In wildness is the preservation of the world".</em></strong></span> Which leads us to a question - will lupi not the olive oil continue in the blogosphere, or fade back into the timberlands? Now - that's a mystery.</div><div></div><div><strong><span style="color:#006600;"></span></strong><a href="http://www.livingwithwolves.org/wolves.html"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255707510604118674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFWlOmm9ljs3nnZpO3n_kwdHT3lntHURrPu3KLsdKN1w8ENoSyey08RXI1zgOalxyLrpqzJd95g13X4ICSeer7UITzTStr0F4dS6JFQPH26_fMbMw_y7fDkcxXqMC3CW6C00B64famaxNL/s400/banner1.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div></div><div></div></div></div>lupi not the olive oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10464829313827674109noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669658071900637676.post-32230120432102771822008-10-09T19:21:00.016+13:002008-10-11T14:32:54.754+13:00All aboard the Social Wave @ the Library<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5NlBt4Wh19TntkmndMi13JjBPS3qy9dSSUlLRrgQkdbX7jUgB4GD6alZBBkz2fTeSsJJoHpji0py0Yu7ACu9-wQbEC6efzV-ydNFCwvddQFZTxjASvsFiA1H4C48oo7b6JAfEwo7N79g2/s1600-h/wolves+insnow.jpg"></a><br /><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255701566419926818" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDT4EOUXYKuUFylC6qOo9g7PBamMg7z556HAbs-BV1tKBoGII3P6CECMtrGIhxYuOl-bpqQuoQi6ylzcKzLyIvYieE0oPib04cOzZP1QusGQv7gafMt8SfgPj0Nzzm9hV4aOtcb-oRCSxt/s200/Chief+Joseph.bmp" border="0" /><br /><div><div><div><div><div><div><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#663366;">"You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up"</span></strong></div><br /><br /><div><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/chiefjoseph.htm"><strong><em>Chief Joseph (Nez Perce)</em></strong><br /></a></span></div><br /><br /><div>Well - what can be said about all these social network sites that our younger generation(s) can't seem to get enough of? I've looked at a few of the library sites but none have really invited me in. Some didn't link, others hadn't been updated for some considerable time - nothing like information about events that are a year or more old to make you shut the door on that one! Others had so much, it made your eyes blur. Like anything in this tech-age, the tools - and we have discovered what a wealth of these there are - are great if they are used well, but you do need to spend time and effort into making these work for your site. I didn't see many comments on the several library myspace and bebo pages I visited, and I admit to feeling jaded over my explorations. There is just too much out there, and after dipping in to places that hold no appeal, you begin to see what a challenge it is to create something that will grab and hold the attention of the net-kids.</div><br /><div>I did find Beth Evans' article <a href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA6375465">"Your space or MySpace?"</a> an interesting read, and I learned some new words - Millennials; "screen-agers" - and I do agree how easily we librarians can suffer "paralysis by analysis" - refusing to move forward into new ventures because we overthink. For any library thinking of setting up one of these network accounts, you need to decide why you are doing it, and have a clear idea of what you want to do with it, and how you will use it to interact with your younger patrons. Don't just do it because everyone else is, and you think it's 'a good idea'.There are endless possibilities as far as what and how you can attract these "screen-agers" to your site, but with so much competition out there in so many forms, you need to have some goal in mind when you begin. Once you do begin - don't forget the on-going needs of resourcing such a project. Libraries and librarians have never been afraid to jump on the next wave, but we sometimes struggle to stay afloat for the journey, or when it moves to the next chapter. So yes, I think there is a place for libraries to have a presence on bebo, Facebook, MySpace, etc, sitting alongside our more traditional roles - it gives another means of entering our "community living-rooms", but in a rather more "virtual" way.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>lupi not the olive oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10464829313827674109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669658071900637676.post-11246116830965021172008-10-06T18:13:00.021+13:002008-10-09T19:02:49.249+13:00Exercise # 21 - HELP - all this socialisation<span style="color:#000099;"><em><strong>"A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses".</strong></em></span><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253918813353164546" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 214px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 340px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="387" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDeDjtMNtQCaqxr0qWekd13MYEe5goAZdiCLbVMw4mRBGWrrRGzu-iRnG7rrEqTT8sIkHfw8JBi2auwdHuWfnLQdyQzEsgqAdshA2lp9_xJGOsWpRN5vDN2xtZkGwRy0p8Oh0BFuOTQxm3/s320/wolf-seacrest-reflection.jpg" width="214" border="0" /><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">Proverbs 27:19 (The Bible)</span></strong><br /><br /><div>I will confess I hadn't been looking forward to this 'Discovery Exercise' with much enthusiasm, and my journey here has done little to change that feeling. Unlike countless millions, I don't feel an urge to sign up to one of the 'social networking' sites - I prefer to keep my profile somewhat anonymous (or as anonymous as one can be around the NSL community). The world has became voyeuristic enough with mobile phones, YouTube and various other means and modes of technology that we all seem to be hooked in to now, whether we want to be or not. I didn't find myspace very appealing - I tried looking up a few things, mostly of a musical nature, but admit to not being drawn to voyage any deeper in to this space. The peek at Facebook was indeed no more than a peek, as it looks like you have to sign up before you can go anywhere? - a big turnoff for me. To top this off, I was very disconcerted on my dip into <a href="http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=4428799413">Auckland City Libraries </a>bebo page, when I went to follow a lead that looked interesting - and behold, 2/3 of my 'true-life' name was already staring at me from the screen - and I know<strong> <em>I</em></strong> had not typed it there. Talk about "Ghost in the machine" - what happened to Privacy here? Needless to say, this promptly halted any further excursions for this exercise, when earlier I'd thought bebo could be the most appealing of these "networks". Maybe it's a generational thing, but my enthusiasm rather too quickly waned. Since embarking on these '23 exercises' I have already felt neglectful of my 'actual reality' social network, small as it is, yet at times I've also experienced the "thrill" of getting caught up in what often seems like a "virtual reality" world. I can see just how easy and totally addictive this can become, without you even realizing it. It all helps to reinforce my thoughts that you can never truly "hide" from the world - "You can run but you can't hide" definitely rings true here. Or should that be "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_can_click,_but_you_can">you can click but you can't hide</a>" - add another can of worms to the ever-expanding network of global sharing. Not forgetting the matter of once you are joined - how do you go about "<em><strong>un</strong></em>-joining" - I've heard that is no easy task, if it's even possible at all?? </div><div> </div><div>I feel I have woven all manner of threads through the Web, and left many trails over these past weeks, signing up to this and that - all those usernames and passwords - I was truly beginning to wonder who I was. Perhaps the idea of assigning everyone with a barcode at birth isn't such a silly idea after all! I have now got to a point where I need to reconnect with my 'Flesh and Blood' social network - including a recently retraced friend from nearly 20 years ago - tracked down through the rather more conventional online means of the telephone book. Thus, I will take time out to ponder my joining the 'virtual' social space. I'm not ruling out a return to do some more explorations here, but it's not "myspace" right now. One small step for this lupe at a time...</div><br /><div><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#6600cc;">"It's said that <a href="http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/crazyhorse.htm">Crazy Horse</a> had the power to dream himself into the real world - and leave the illusion behind" </span></strong></div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xh5GUkK0u4&feature=related"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254294518157365282" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKLccYV8SE1mIhtAGaxfoCx4t6J_6t1ghwYiKI2IEeAqrLnQv749ZiiHuhe4wxqM5JIduTHaBIoCn2A6no65G72Sx9XROFJavuPR84oonI7vya1i9d_Gl7AX3HY8AR-MUVNP83tqderO_d/s320/Song+of+Crazy+Horse.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><em><strong><span style="font-family:arial;color:#663333;"><a href="http://www.jdblackfoot.com/bio.html">J.D. Blackfoot,</a> from his album "The song of Crazy Horse" (1973)</span></strong></em></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#006600;">(You can click the album cover and see a YouTube clip of the long version - 20 minutes, the complete side 1 - of this song. There is also a </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo8YTGpp6KE"><span style="color:#006600;">shorter</span></a><span style="color:#006600;"> 10 minute version on YouTube)</span></span></div><div><br /></div>lupi not the olive oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10464829313827674109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669658071900637676.post-82286883590860230712008-10-03T17:05:00.011+13:002008-10-03T20:49:59.938+13:00e-book - see/hear/read - Where's the Book?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjffTGhDlE2JL6tqde6Wk7pwu5Q4AXvEUqL-2uQvz7TnZcjABIiUXCOcBgz0vjJ9CN5zZhS-9JPNcxlqw2eREtgizPGoZ6Db9r_4lUy5nQyzlF6cPc3yQLLn1gxy12Ku4MdfBmTrN-XKe0q/s1600-h/bannerLivingwithwolves.jpg"></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUHCt0o3zTNX5o1-gn6m2brZhqsDfgnriYl45FiHvXkZIeqVnNGaShmngUyc0EsjLpY7Aj8JxyQwhVxzWEi1K1ICaycN4vOlxhZnO3JihiVwC50FIozJxlIwJJpegVmGBt60x-NtawDWy1/s1600-h/Jack+London.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252820624686502258" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUHCt0o3zTNX5o1-gn6m2brZhqsDfgnriYl45FiHvXkZIeqVnNGaShmngUyc0EsjLpY7Aj8JxyQwhVxzWEi1K1ICaycN4vOlxhZnO3JihiVwC50FIozJxlIwJJpegVmGBt60x-NtawDWy1/s320/Jack+London.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="color:#663300;"><strong>"...each day mankind and the claims of mankind slipped farther from him. Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call , mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth around it, and to plunge into the forest, and on and on, he knew not where or why; nor did he wonder where or why, the call sounding imperiously, deep in the forest."</strong></span><br /><br /><div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#006600;"><strong>The Call of the wild (Jack London 1876-1916), 1903 - Chapter 6 "For the love of a man"</strong></span></div><br /><div>Well for the last half-dozen or so years at least, there has been talk that e-books will herald the death of the book as we have known it for the last millennium or so. However, after delving into the world of the 'alternative format' book, I don't think we need roll out the black arm-bands, or light the fires, just yet. The written word is still at the heart of all these formats, and as long as people continue to write, and there are still eager-beavers waiting to share in their tales of wonder and imagination, that flag will continue to wave. Having said that, though - it is amazing the choice we now have in <em><strong>how</strong></em> we read the wealth of literature that exists, and to be reassured that these various formats are contributing to the preservation of, and extending the reach in ways probably never ever considered in the wildest imaginations of some of the ancient scribes who first penned those works. </div><br /><div>I had forgotten just how long Project Gutenberg has been going, and this was my first real look right "into" it. I searched for Jack London, as he is the first author to really make an impression on me when I first discovered reading. I devoured "Call of the Wild" and "White Fang" back then (perhaps that explains why I have such a bent for dogs wild cousin the wolf?), before digressing to "Robinson Crusoe" and other such classics. I hadn't realized Jack London had such a catalogue of works, and browsing the "pages" of these old favourites has rekindled my interest in his writing, so it will be a visit to the "Stack" to search out some of this wonderful stuff. I was also curious to see if under "language" there would be an entry under 'Maori', and was heartened to find one title there. It is the story of <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22009">"Hinemoa"</a> and the information that is given with entries is well presented, although I would have liked to have known a little more about the <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/provenance">provenance</a> of this particular <a href="http://search.aucklandcitylibraries.com/?q=hinemoa%20with%20notes">text</a>. Mention of the assistance by Victoria University of Wellington/Te Whare Wananga o te Upoko o te Ika a Maui reminded me of that institutions own <a href="http://www.nzetc.org/">project</a>, which is well worth exploring for New Zealand texts. Among their ever-growing catalogue, you can find the 54 works that make up the <a href="http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/subject-000004.html">"Official history of New Zealand in the Second World War, 1939-1945'</a>, and the latest addition is volumes 1 & 6 (vols 2-5 will follow at a later date) of the <a href="http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-corpus-cyclopedia.html">Cyclopedia of New Zealand</a>. Volume 1 "Wellington Provincial District" weighs 5.1 kilograms in hard-copy - imagine if<strong><em> that</em></strong> fell on your toe! Small mercy then that this is available for perusal online - one small triumph for "Health and Safety" in the library stacks. </div><br /><div>I have rambled on enough now about this, and there is still Google Books, Kindle, LibriVox... I have dipped into these as well, and am impressed by the array of ways to access/view/listen/download. But for me, nothing can yet beat curling up with a lovely cup of tea/coffee/hot chocolate - sadly a glass of wine would put me straight to sleep - with puss (1, 2, 3 & 4) for company, reading text and turning the page of a tree long since pulped, and floating off in to dreamland (some might call it dream-<strong><em>er</em></strong> land, but what's wrong with that). On that note I will bid goodnight, and get off home to afore-mentioned Puss 1, 2, 3 & 4, who have been known to masquerade as 'wolf in sheep's clothing'. ..</div><br /><div></div><div><strong><span style="color:#6600cc;">"...there was about him a suggestion of lurking ferocity, as though the Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept."</span></strong></div></div></div>lupi not the olive oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10464829313827674109noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669658071900637676.post-6248712253113382012008-09-30T17:07:00.014+13:002008-09-30T19:34:44.702+13:00Something in the (podcast) air<a href="http://ecobirder.blogspot.com/2008/06/yellowstone-wolf.html"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251680628459993186" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 256px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 196px" height="229" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZNy3V6gTNaDzNSDHRPlW8Ep9IdLEva27E_xpFgdPcyYX7Mznd0ygHT3hQZGxCrMCOudTbVy6zVA001wAC1geJrFF8-f4NjByXo-Y_CCJQT1kMeZFAchgDrB7vz5S-nFOtR1fzEj411sYR/s320/wolf+sniffing2.jpg" width="297" border="0" /></a><strong><span style="color:#006600;">Call out the instigators</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#006600;">because there's something in the air</span></strong><br /><div><div><strong><span style="color:#006600;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#006600;">We've got to get together sooner or later</span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#006600;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#006600;">Because the revolution's here,</span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#006600;"></span></strong></div><div></div><div><strong><span style="color:#006600;">and you know it's right</span></strong></div><div></div><div><strong><span style="color:#006600;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#006600;">And you know that it's right</span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#006600;">We have got to get it together</span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#006600;">We have got to get it together now</span></strong></div><br /><div><em><strong>(John 'Speedy' Keen) from the album Hollywood Dream by</strong></em> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pGht71KFkY">Thunderclap Newman</a>, <em><strong>1970</strong></em></div><div></div><div><strong><em></em></strong></div><div><strong><em></em></strong></div><div></div><div></div><div><strong><em></em></strong></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Well, I think I can understand why "podcast" was chosen as the 2005 word of the year. Not quite a revolution, but Podcasting seems like the next step beyond radio - and you can customize it so much better to your own particular foibles than just switching the dial. I can't wait to get my "reward" of an MP3 player once I complete these exercises, so I can put it to work searching out some podcasts that I'd like to listen to at my leisure. That will be yet another experience figuring out how to master the loading involved in that process, no doubt - hopefully not too difficult?? Will my brain be able to handle all this techno-overload? I looked at a couple of the podcast directories, and chose the subject areas relating to animals/wildlife/environment. I was very pleased to come across a podcast of a presentation given by Douglas Smith, the Yellowstone Wolf Project Leader, in 2005, talking about the first 10 years of the project, and what the future might hold. It was a long presentation, and was broken into 2 streams, so I definitely want to come back to this. I revisited my bloglines account, but it still doesn't make much sense to me, I'm afraid. I must figure out how to add an RSS feed from <a href="http://www.greateryellowstonecoalition.org/">The Greater Yellowstone Coalition Press Room</a>, where I came across this gem, to my account there - it surely can't be as difficult as I appear to be making it! I will persevere and/or seek the guidance of one of our ever-so-patient tutors on that task - obviously I still have a major block regarding RSS. Thank goodness you can usually also subscribe to receive email updates - I have no problem with signing up to those and reading them! I will come back some time and look for some library related podcasts, as well - looking forward to hearing what other libraries around this big wide world are getting up to.</div><div></div><div></div></div>lupi not the olive oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10464829313827674109noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669658071900637676.post-9591226301599043042008-09-27T12:47:00.007+12:002008-09-27T17:01:30.460+12:00Chasing The Pack through the 'Tube'<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG_r71-W5zZh6zKh21tcnvexxsBrQdxbhy8IA3VbNu5nS4YkGzsW6BlfI9rmhXKwvuBe2ZaowOqH75QF683RXI_rc2VKAoAGidv-lgP0XfsqUPtVS5CKDOIegS_ZFmJ92rO8imvsj8TffE/s1600-h/Black+Elk.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250537146757601042" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG_r71-W5zZh6zKh21tcnvexxsBrQdxbhy8IA3VbNu5nS4YkGzsW6BlfI9rmhXKwvuBe2ZaowOqH75QF683RXI_rc2VKAoAGidv-lgP0XfsqUPtVS5CKDOIegS_ZFmJ92rO8imvsj8TffE/s200/Black+Elk.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff6666;"><strong>And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell </strong></span><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff6666;"><strong>and I understood more than I saw; </strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff6666;"><strong>for I was seeing in a sacred manner </strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff6666;"><strong>the shapes of all things in the spirit, </strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#ff6666;"><strong>and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.</strong></span></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#006600;">Black Elk (1863-1950) Medicine Man of the Lakota (Sioux)</span></strong></div><br /><br /><div></div><div>You would have needed to have been living in the Land of the Lost, in hibernation or deep frozen over the past several years not to have heard of YouTube. I've never done a major exploration here myself, but am glad this exercise has given me the excuse to do so at last. I've been a bit hesitant to get hooked in to this site, but can certainly see it's merits. You can choose to be entertained, educated, informed, etc as well, of course, as being a provider of such things. Like anything, it is viewer beware, remembering not everything necessarily follows the "seeing is believing" maxim. Great resource when you're feeling nostalgic for seeking out those old '60's & '70's westerns, or similarly vintaged music video clips. However, surprise surprise, I chose to focus my quest on canis lupus - my spirit friend <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20SWz2Gf_BY&feature=related">The Wolf</a>. I found some here that tell about the reintroduction of wolves to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3W0YO4zpYs&NR=1">Yellowstone National Park</a> and how they have <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2eiGzNkYho&NR=1">changed the landscape </a>there - in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoH9GvEgxwI&feature=related">some opinions</a> not for the better; there are others dealing with an aerial <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mu_rqmFpL8&NR=1">campaign</a> being waged against them in Alaska, with US Vice-Presidential wannabe <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQobIUE1zTU&NR=1">Sarah Palin at the forefront</a>.</div><div>However, the clip I have chosen to display here is one about the recent discovery of wolf pups in Washington - the newest members of the first confirmed wolf pack in the state since the 1930's, believed to have ventured down from Canada, where there are still healthy wild populations. They haven't faced the same type of persecutions north of the border as the Lower 48 wolf populations have, and this film shows that given space and time, Mother Nature will find her own way of putting back some of the balance we have, sometimes deliberately, destroyed. There is also a clip giving the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RyY-wWCvrQ&feature=user">pups howling</a> - I hope you enjoy some of these wonderful sights and sounds.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TzF6rk5YLYY&hl=" width="425" height="344" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" fs="1" allowfullscreen="true"></embed>lupi not the olive oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10464829313827674109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669658071900637676.post-33909005610291823752008-09-22T21:33:00.013+12:002008-09-25T20:00:17.090+12:00And the Web 2.0 Gong goes to....<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt7ahYKoNaMntL9Gr3GkpbbXjVnRVAbV4GR4kwqh5tNrbiVRr9sFcVfE-Gsb0aee5MjzLrM9shzOybWn4bAVfxa040kbmk2rYsj3TJ_C2Yp_hajLtnsiwF_sw4auVumgp4Khk50Bi-A0LW/s1600-h/pawprint.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249864486720453890" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt7ahYKoNaMntL9Gr3GkpbbXjVnRVAbV4GR4kwqh5tNrbiVRr9sFcVfE-Gsb0aee5MjzLrM9shzOybWn4bAVfxa040kbmk2rYsj3TJ_C2Yp_hajLtnsiwF_sw4auVumgp4Khk50Bi-A0LW/s200/pawprint.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio1LWaM0WYrUQwTZpbnsZZN4k90rxzlhrew3u10ojhOo7_hIHVRrY04SY7cTdgxFTOcx3dIRr15CLQUC9XWYLDkXwVV4c3wYeOwoQoWJ8hxvnIeAGqHVvP7vo0IUfFsvzOfCV49cVPbgGj/s1600-h/pawprint.jpg"></a><br /><div><div><strong><em><span style="color:#990000;">"If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them something more than the miracles of our technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it."</span></em></strong> </div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#ff6666;">President Lyndon B. Johnson, upon signing <a href="http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=legisAct&error=404">The Wilderness Act </a>of 1964</span></strong></div><br /><div>Well - is there ever a healthy helping to choose from here! As ever, I could spend way too many hours exploring all the sites associated with this exercise. I'm amazed at the wonderful efforts of some talented folk to entice others to explore their world. I was intrigued by what I might find under the "Philanthropy" heading, so decided to do my "Discovery exercise" there, and was not disappointed by the <a href="http://www.care2.com/">"Gong-getter"</a> here - <span style="color:#009900;">Incorporating petitions, donations, groups and tips, Care2 is an online hub of people who care about their world and want to make it better.</span> Nice to see an organisation I am already familiar with, <a href="http://www.defenders.org/index.php">Defenders of Wildlife</a>, has a presence here as well. This is a site I'll return to, and add to my bookmarks. Chances are I probably wouldn't have found it if it hadn't featured in the Web 2.0 Awards. The <a href="http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0">awards site</a> could be a useful reference source for discovering websites which are considered to be "a cut above the rest" amongst the web community, and linking through to them from on-line library resources like pathfinders.</div></div></div>lupi not the olive oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10464829313827674109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669658071900637676.post-49298222651323842972008-09-21T16:10:00.013+12:002008-09-25T20:06:26.296+12:00Zoho explore - where have you gone?<p zid="2"><br zid="1"><span zid="14" style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;"><strong zid="15">Zoho Explorations with el lobo</strong></span><img alt="surprised" src="http://writer.zoho.com/wo/images/smiley-surprised.gif" border="0" zid="3" /></p><p zid="4"></p><p zid="5"><span zid="16" style="color:#663366;">This looks like it could be a lot of fun and quite useful. As with everything we are discovering on this tour around the vast Web 2.0 world, it will be a matter of continuing on with the explorations and using the various things we like the look of. Then once we have mastered those ones, we can go back - <em>maybe</em> - to the ones we still struggle with.</span></p><p zid="6"><span zid="18" style="color:#663366;">I'm going to see if I can insert an image I've tried to get off my new digital camera. I'm not quite sure where it's gone to though as now my nano has gone walkabout somewhere on (although it looks like <strong zid="8"><u zid="9">off </u></strong>would be the more appropriate word at this point) or in my computer. Just something else to try and get my head around. Here goes...</span><img alt="tongue_out" src="http://writer.zoho.com/wo/images/smiley-tongue-out.gif" border="0" zid="10" /></p><p zid="11"></p><p zid="12"><a href="http://anwo.com/store/wolf_crossing_sign.html" zid="19"><img style="WIDTH: 248px; HEIGHT: 157px" height="240" alt="wolf crossing sign" hspace="3" src="http://anwo.com/store/media/wolf_crossing.JPG" width="320" vspace="3" border="0" zid="20" /></a> </p><p zid="21"><em zid="28"><span zid="29" style="font-family:book antiqua;font-size:100%;color:#9933ff;"><strong>What is man without the beasts? </strong></span></em></p><p zid="23"><em zid="30"><span zid="31" style="font-family:book antiqua;font-size:100%;color:#9933ff;"><strong>If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit, </strong></span></em></p><p zid="24"><em zid="32"><span zid="33" style="font-family:book antiqua;font-size:100%;color:#9933ff;"><strong>for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to man. </strong></span></em></p><p zid="24"><em zid="34"><span zid="35" style="font-family:book antiqua;font-size:100%;color:#9933ff;"><strong>All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of the earth.</strong></span></em></p><p zid="26">Seathl, Duwamish chief (Chief Seattle)</p>lupi not the olive oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10464829313827674109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669658071900637676.post-22902646086581611862008-09-15T19:23:00.011+12:002008-09-17T12:01:49.813+12:00Rollyo Rolling, rolling, rolling<span style="color:#660000;">Rollin', rollin', rollin'.</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Rollin', rollin', rollin'.</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Rollin', rollin', rollin'.</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Rollin', rollin', rollin'.</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Rawhide!</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Hah! Hah!</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Keep rollin', rollin', rollin',</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Though the streams are swollen,</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Keep them dogies rollin', rawhide.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawhide_(TV_series)"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246486519415603634" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 304px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 213px" height="215" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaWqY4w_mAronw48mMs-fE59YGIwvKR0mrFd5QZj_FgIoEElin2YP0DAz1_IPe9xf-kx7xLQswSPhFwZa4DGuuV2V-NJxp9TbsAX8wSQHwBFqaz4Jj4jPNXEzqwRJFNNyM1tDFiGxUGvTu/s320/rawhide4.jpg" width="310" border="0" /></a></span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Through rain and wind and weather,</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Hell bent for leather,</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Wishin' my gal was by my side.</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">All the things I'm missin',</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Good vittles, love, and kissin',</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Are waiting at the end of my ride.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Move 'em out, head 'em up,</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Head 'em up, move 'em on.</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Move 'em out, head 'em up:Rawhide.</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Cut 'em out, ride 'em in,</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Ride 'em in, cut 'em out,</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Cut 'em out, ride 'em in:Rawhide!</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Hah! Hah! </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Movin', movin', movin',</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Though they're disapprovin',<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGGsJw9LxcTEp_gYpHRP6zDZRmyyggouAhsM4up1RNmoYdm9eYFN2AfOzSkdOoKP8Gzfrv1sowESON87TWUi8ic4PcbFihMJ_fvLrj-9mmLjgIwbRiaHLDp6evhRTHn9pxioCGNFDPCnIR/s1600-h/rawhide4.jpg"></a></span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Keep them dogies movin', rawhide.</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Don't try to understand 'em,</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Just rope an' throw an' brand 'em.</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Soon we'll be living high and wide.</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">My heart's calculatin',</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">My true love will be waitin':</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Waitin' at the end of my ride. </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Move 'em out, head 'em up,</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Head 'em up, move 'em on.</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Move 'em out, head 'em up:Rawhide.</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Cut 'em out, ride 'em in,</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Ride 'em in, cut 'em out,</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Cut 'em out, ride 'em in:Rawhide! </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#660000;">(Rollin', rollin', rollin'.)</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">(Rollin', rollin', rollin'.)</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Hah!</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">(Rollin', rollin', rollin'.)</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Hah!</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">(Rollin', rollin', rollin'.)</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Rawhide.</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Hah!</span><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2_NMcKOBY8">Rawhide! </a><br /><br /><br />Yet another "tool" I've spent too much time on, getting more frustrated and confused the longer I spent on it. Sites like Rollyo, which to me look "cluttered" because they have so much - some might say <strong>too</strong> much - I find confounding. I always thought myself quite logical and practical, but yet again I've found myself going around and around and around.... Creating more when I was desperately trying to delete - why is it you can delete some things far too easily (usually when you don't actually <em><strong>intend</strong></em> to) and when you do want to delete something, it almost seems impossible to do? Anyway, once I figured out how to consign some rolls to the trash heap, I did end up with a search roll I thought was okay, and I've added that searchroll to my blog. One site I just couldn't link <a href="http://www.livingwithwolves.org/">here,</a> and I can't figure out a reason why. Murphy's Law, it's a site I've used myself for a while, as well. I probably won't revisit Rollyo often, but I <strong>think</strong> I understand how it works. I'll now store it away in the recesses of my organic computer to draw upon in the future if I feel it could be useful. I may do some more "playing" sometime to see if I can figure out some of it's mysteries which have so far eluded me.lupi not the olive oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10464829313827674109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669658071900637676.post-81512003703196944722008-09-09T19:18:00.009+12:002008-09-11T20:36:01.869+12:00A WonderfulThing is this LibraryThing<a href="http://www.livingwithwolves.org/us.html"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244670636873793362" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 117px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 186px" height="191" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZT3PMeQ1jCAQDUpArXrsQWecrtCxtHlqBBNIIA452miorg5nKBtZ6A9Pex_WjM7xasspBtfp1mW9n6aoVWitT1cM_f6pMQ8hDooWGHyqk1s3JXjFwjJEs21nuCRBoEj9IfSe3BJgnEgvf/s320/paw&hand.jpg" width="124" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#999900;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#999900;"></span></strong><br /><span style="color:#006600;"><strong>Read the best books first, </strong><br /><strong>or you may not have a chance to read them at all</strong><br /></span><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong><em>Henry David Thoreau</em></strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br />I can see I may definitely continue adding to <a href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=lupilobo">my catalog</a> on LibraryThing. A great idea, very easy to use and I can see it could actually be useful to have a link to this from our own library OPAC. Like an extension of your reading history, LibraryThing allows you to peek into other people's lists, and catch up on titles you may not otherwise stumble across. After all, we can't all be cataloguers, and while I certainly appreciate the need for good accurate catalogue information - I also realize to most people (myself included) the rules of cataloguing are, and will always remain, one of Life's great Mysteries. The added joys of simple tagging!lupi not the olive oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10464829313827674109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669658071900637676.post-23095864035446023402008-09-05T19:43:00.024+12:002008-09-09T08:41:38.284+12:00Generating the hours (and hours) away...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo7MD6RfmxeguMEFeWwqbqtgJVoFWA-dRxTIxJuxIGCOrrvaXqTTWPLI0Wk7lDHJolbsAgATQ9gULIQMMUV-lUyU0yOn_zbc2_V7xCs-xzp6op40WeOouGbBD51Ihwx2HyaD_a6F8Uo5j0/s1600-h/Wecanneverhaveenoug3.gif"></a><br /><br /><br /><div><div><div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-kZPxxpn9dZapm_dPlK__56nf1dxNShDHomJGBoHKNMeVC505ZsH-O5gQDhOV0NeXaZwm4hlDtHrhtCD-oSLMr5C7n4nzDtCiP7jmP1o3aayiGeXEaXKBtQ5IyHE8LGbHOHIsKb-SRs9k/s1600-h/Billboard-Nash.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243534677097088418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 211px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 146px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="136" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-kZPxxpn9dZapm_dPlK__56nf1dxNShDHomJGBoHKNMeVC505ZsH-O5gQDhOV0NeXaZwm4hlDtHrhtCD-oSLMr5C7n4nzDtCiP7jmP1o3aayiGeXEaXKBtQ5IyHE8LGbHOHIsKb-SRs9k/s200/Billboard-Nash.bmp" width="200" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000099;">Perhaps unless the billboards fall,</span></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000099;">I'll never see a tree at all</span></strong></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#000066;">Ogden Nash</span> </div><br /><br /><div><a href="http://www.customroadsign.com/menu.php">http://www.customroadsign.com/menu.php</a> </div><br /><br /><div>Well,my goodness - you can spend hours on this exercise. It has been fun, but I'm beginning to feel the more we explore, the less we find out we <em><strong>think</strong></em> we know? It's quite scary the time you can so easily get trapped into spending at some of these clever and amazing sites. With so much being added to the blogosphere every second, there's no way you could ever hope to find enough - just as well there are "real people" always at hand to drag you back to reality! I enjoyed playing with a couple of generators. Would love to keep going with more, but my brain (and my body) needs a rest. Hope you enjoy my efforts.</div><br /><br /><div><a href="http://glowtxt.com/">http://glowtxt.com/</a> </div><br /></div><div><a href="http://glowtxt.com/"><img style="WIDTH: 432px; HEIGHT: 33px" height="38" alt="glowtxt.com image" src="http://static1.glowtxt.com/data1/8/8/c/88c65b289d48617bd184b26b6dedabaed654d1035e8ec22dc77d9f979a2eba6a25ef87c0.gif" width="498" border="0" /></a><br />Henry David Thoreau, 1854</div><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhilnL50M4wIXOfeLg6ZXW2ddcFad_riidK-Wl__tL_J8Dfv9YA2YJGpvnNBf9nbCHFd29MW43zW2TFQyoy8t-zNrZ_O-Gc4ARL4SCLQA8zKmQKyQQ-EwcO03BwiUuoObv2oSxmSpufQT6k/s1600-h/lupinottheoliveoiltiny.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243553263961466546" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 146px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 42px" height="26" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhilnL50M4wIXOfeLg6ZXW2ddcFad_riidK-Wl__tL_J8Dfv9YA2YJGpvnNBf9nbCHFd29MW43zW2TFQyoy8t-zNrZ_O-Gc4ARL4SCLQA8zKmQKyQQ-EwcO03BwiUuoObv2oSxmSpufQT6k/s320/lupinottheoliveoiltiny.gif" width="611" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></div><div><br /><br /> </div></div></div></div>lupi not the olive oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10464829313827674109noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669658071900637676.post-46022636759575254692008-09-03T17:17:00.007+12:002008-09-04T20:07:44.198+12:00Wiki Qwicki = edit (write) save link<span style="color:#660000;">The Beginning<br />In the beginning there was nothing. Only water, darkness and The Raven.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">He flew through the darkness with a bag that hung around his neck. He had been flying for a long time, and was starting to get tired. So while he flew, he removed a rock from his bag and threw it into the sea. This rock became the first land. He sat down upon this land to rest, while resting he took other rocks from his sack and threw them into the water. Thus The Raven made the land. </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Rested, The Raven picked up his bag and continued to fly. After a while he became tired, so he sat on a rock and took more items from his bag. He removed the fir, the pine, the spruce, the redwood and all the trees of the world. He also removed the huckleberry bush, the wild strawberry, the grass and all of the plants of the world, including the plants of the sea. These things he scattered across the land and the water, so that they may grow. </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Again The Raven took his pouch around his neck and flew through the darkness. And again The Raven became tired so that he sat upon a rock. This time he removed all the animals of the world. The wolf, the eagle, the salmon, the bear, the dear, and all the animals of the land and of the sea. </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#660000;">The Raven looked around him at the world he had made, it was a good world, every one was peaceful and happy. But before he flew off he looked into his pouch and saw that there was one thing left. So he removed man from the bag and placed him upon the earth.</span><br /><br /><em>(Mythology told by the people of the West Coast of North America)</em><br /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242070231949980066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 143px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 104px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="98" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSwdTzpUrqoQASq8GgBo7AVLNQ-ANR6vZ_22V8fBZMXnL_A7pL3fUWlrTmkbEJjzbiT_F0zG2nCnk53kJDvLWQH_rB5-ZbaY5EoRRkkcHzjsuBQIHrkyvoIOHPOH5A_2-oS5EG775Ky0Xy/s200/wolf+and+raven.jpg" width="138" border="0" /><br />The Raven and the Wolf have an often symbiotic relationship - when the wolf hunts you will always find the raven present, but Raven is also known to lead Wolf to prey - a wonderful relationship where both can (usually) end up getting their bellies filled! The way in which Raven built his 'community' in The Beginning, and the co-operation that still continues amongst that community, has a wiki ring to it - "edit - save - link" - as noted in the best <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY">video</a> I've come across so far in connection with this Web 2.0 experience. There are some useful and interesting library wikis, especially the ones listing subject guides and new books. You could spend so much time just <em><span style="color:#006600;">exploring</span></em> these wikis, you recognize how great it would be to have a well resourced library IT department to <em><span style="color:#006600;">create</span></em> these for us. Not forgetting the possibilities of library training wikis, either! Another extension of the already co-operative community that exists amongst libraries and librarians? Power to us all, and a reminder of <strong>The Wiki Prayer</strong><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#cc6600;"><em><strong>Please, grant me the serenity to accept the pages I cannot edit,</strong></em></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#cc6600;"><em><strong>The courage to edit the pages I can,</strong></em></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#cc6600;"><em><strong>And the wisdom to know the difference</strong></em></span></div>lupi not the olive oilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10464829313827674109noreply@blogger.com2