Valid excuses for not keeping up to date with blog!

Hello all
anyone reading this blog might be forgiven for thinking i'm incredibly slack - not to mention ungrateful! for not doing anything related to this blog for quite some time - however i do have a completely valid excuse! I am currently taking the longest period of sick leave i've ever taken in my life, owing to a few small dramas with my achilles tendon (think severed - yuch) and some associated complications - fun fun fun. very grateful and thrilled to have won a prize though, thank you Learning 2.0! Entirely unexpected and nice news to get in a hospital bed when you're feeling a tad self-pitying. Now that i am allowed to sit with my foot lower that my heart, I can get moving on finishing this, as many of my clever colleagues have done.

Task # 14

OK, well I've just started on Technorati and decided to try claiming my blog using "post claim", which is asking me to enter the following piece of code:
Technorati Profile, and then click on a button which says "release the spiders"! As a moderate arachnophobic that scares me a bit but I'm going to assume that nothing black and hairy is actually going to jump through the monitor at me and "just do it" as the Nike people would say (sorry)! Wish me luck!

Well, no spiders here ... however in further playing around with searching for Learning 2.0, found this interesting piece on youtube.... very appropriate to the topic at hand!


Having a look at "Popular" in Technorati. People are clearly interested in Dumbledore and JK Rowling's recent revelation about his sexuality. Wonder why people really care who a fictional character does, or does not, sleep with....

Having done some searches and found a few things of interest, I think I'm getting the hang of this.

Week 6 Task #13

Hello again to anyone reading this. I've been exploring with del.icio.us and it seems like quite a neat tool. We need this one on the ref desk for certain. I haven't quite got my head around it yet, though, so I think further playing may be required! It's not the most friendly interface I've ever seen, but perhaps once I get used to it I won't mind that. It's interesting that so many of these sites seem to have a social networking component. So much for those who claim that increased use of the internet will lead to increased isolation!
Another tool you may want to have a look at if you have time to kill is stumbleupon (www.stumbleupon.com). similar sort of theory to del.icio.us in a way, but based on "interests". you can browse through some really terrific online content but talk about a time devourer ...

Week 5 Task #12

e-books on Rollyo - how fab! have created a rolled search on recipes which I may actually use. See "aussie recipes" for some of my favourites.

see http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/14822/flourless+orange+cake for a delicious recipe for the following cake:

Week 5 Task #11

Had a look at LibraryThing - looks interesting. Have catalogued a few books but I always find that I can't remember books that I've read and enjoyed when I'm asked (thus my love of fiction guides etc.!). Link to catalogue: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/ameithyste