Thursday, February 28, 2008

Interesting indeed!




Basically I think its cruel to ask us to find an "interesting" image in flickr. It just makes my mind go blank and I can't think of a single thing I'm interested in.
I've uploaded photos to the net before with snapfish, and i think its a great way of sharing photos with friends and family who live far away, however for myself, I don't think that there are many of my photos that I'd want to share with the world. Call it paranoia, but i just think there are too many creepy people out there.
As I'm the mother of twins - a boy and girl who aren't particularly alike in any way, i thought i'd see what searching for twins on flickr would produce - lots about the Twin Towers, and this photo of quite old identical twins http://www.flickr.com/photos/stoneth/72248594/

Hopefully being brother and sister will mean that my twins won't look like this in old age, but if they do i wont be around to see it.




Thursday, February 21, 2008

I feel so 21st Century!

As someone who always said that the only reason I had kids was so I had someone to record my telly programs for me when i get old, I'm feeling pretty pleased with myself. So far I'm finding this self paced learning pretty straightforward.

From a librarian's viewpoint, online book discussion groups spring to mind as something that could be linked from a public library's webcat, not just for fiction books, but for people who have obscure hobbies and would like to get in touch with like minded people, or at least exchange ideas. I've read other people's blogs before, but have never contributed to them. In my own time I rather like reading celebrity gossip blogs, as the rules of libel and slander just don't seem to apply, and I don't contribute as I don't seem to move in celebrity circles and have anything to add(sigh!).

Actually, thats a point, is the owner of a blog responsible for anything libellous that is posted by themselves or others? If the answer isn't clear, I would imagine heaps of Councils getting nervous if their libraries start hosting blogs.