Absolutely delicious!

Again really liked the idea behind del.icio.us - steep learning curve with this one. Found out about folksonomy( my interpretation folks adding their own individual name to items, sites, photos etc)users add tags online to items such as images (Flickr), videos, bookmarks and text.
Del.icio.us is a tagging system for URLs and offers the user the ability to store and retrieve their own bookmarks from any computer and also to tag each bookmark - you categorize according to how you want to remember them.This also allows you to sort them especially if you have 100's of favourites. Del.icio.us is a public site the other beauty is that you can share bookmarks with others by their tags. I do see the social sharing aspect of this but because of the free form categorizing if you're looking at other peoples tags you could end up with alot of irrelevant info maybe this is good gives you more ideas. could utilize it as a more structured tool to share a universal website nominate the del.icio.us site and get students teachers etc to add and view this just like PLCMCL2 have!
Viewed the PLCMCL2 del.icio.us website will probably go back there if I need further help with my journey.
I really think that del.icio.us could be quite useful for me and have created my own account so that my favourites/bookmarks are portable!

To Rollyo or To Google - Will I change?

Rollyo(roll your own sites) and weed out all the junk! Sounds great, a mini search that will return far more relevant and useful info than the brand name search engines. You choose which trusted sites you want to go to and you can share these too. A useful tool that would certainly help me in the library. In my attempt to setup a rollyo site I hope to find sites that will help me with story time activities. Will probably edit some of the sites but a good research tool. Thumbs up Rollyo team!

the next " thing " to do! The "LibraryThing"

Haven't really explored this site enough but will as it looks like a good site to recommend to avid readers who are looking for inspiration and of course new books to get their hands on and also compare their virtual library! I like the recommendations options. The similarly tagged books gave me options for my next read and you can exclude authors if you like to come up with new ones. I especially like the idea behind the the unsuggester that gives you a humorous list that you probably wouldn't enjoy or would you? Makes you just want to read the list and see why!

Where did that big mutant fish go!

Used BIGHUGELABS again but used the captioner to add comic book style captions to my slightly out of focus digital photo of the fish on the Yarra during the 2006 Commonwealth games in Melbourne. So easy to do and have fun with, could apply this technology to spice up some boring photos to get patrons motivated around the library. Who knows what this could lead to! (of course all in good taste!)
/bighugelabs.com/flickr/deck.php

Will also explore JibJab movie generator at later stage - looks fun to use, I could waste a lot of time on the "The Generator Blog". It did say time to play unfortunately back to the real world!

The need to get my feeds fast!

Really Simple Syndication and bloglines is a great idea for anyone trying to keep track of incoming updates without the hassel of logging onto individual sites - just go to the one site, great idea!
Enjoyed the overview of RSS created by Commocraft Video on Youtube.
I've located some interesting blogs and feeds.

http://www.bloglines.com/public/brightspark

Technology related stuff

Found two sites that are worth looking at-

http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Another good site to learn about how to fix appliances, how atavisms work, how a machine gun works etc etc

The other site involves using Flickr as a link to display photos on the library homepage. Hennepin County Library has used flickr to develop a site on their homepage where the community can send photos of themselves in their favourite reading place, see-

http:www.hclib.org/pub/bookspace

I suppose this would mean extra work for someone but it would give a real community feeling to the homepage. Also could be used to display events held at the library.

Playing with BIGHUGELABS

My oh my its been a long time between drinks er sorry internet connection complications. Have had a fun session looking at some of these sites. Yahoo planner looks good, too bad I don't have a holiday planned for the near future but you never know! Had a great time with Trading card maker could be a really good tool to use in the library to generate inhouse posters, introducing new staff reviewing books etc the applications are really too numerous to list here but I did have fun creating a movie poster.
Endless fun and not too hard to use!
The site I used to generate the movie poster was /bighugelabs.com/flickr/deck.php