Folksonomies - fancy word for categorising things

Have been looking at Del.icio.us and have rediscovered my account which I started long ago and its meagre 2 bookmarks. Have added 2 more (wow!! - I'll try not to go overboard!) but will definitely be adding more when I get time. Its actually a really good concept. I love the De.licio.us page for Ask Now - it's excellent for finding those elusive websites to fit a client's question, either during an AskNow session or on the phone or desk. I also like the tag cloud - easier to see a lot of tags at once. Its good to see other libraries using it as a way to recommend good websites to their patrons.


Had a quick look through Technorati - I can see it will be a first port of call when looking for blogs on particular subjects. Really want to get on to Library Thing tho....

Have finally joined Library Thing .... its great! Noosa Library's Library Thing is impressive - so many book clubs! And providing multiple copies for them all is amazing. I'll be adding lots more to mine but i have to say i don't own them all...they're mainly ones I've read - I don't buy many books. Or is that a bad thing...oooh I'm not sure....everyone seems to add books on their shelves at home...I wish i could buy so many books!

RSS Feeds

Must make an effort to finish these posts quicker! Went into Bloglines and finally managed to figure out how it works...its quite fun actually, now I've sussed it out.

I've subscribed to 11 feeds - OPAL Training; ABC News Brisbane; BBC News, World Edition; Librarian's Internet Index; 5 feeds from the NZ Herald; Rotten Tomatoes (Movies); The Shifted Librarian. Will look for more at a later date. I can see they are a good way of keeping up with different interests / events, without having to go to all the different websites / blogs.
Because this blog is about home "across the ditch" I'm going to post the feed for the NZ weather ..... it'll remind me about having to get up in those freezing mornings and more often than not have to get ice off the car window.