tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978544209742513633Mon, 07 Oct 2024 05:00:13 +000023 thingsBlogging about BloggingThing 04HelpfulHousingSecurityThing 03Thing 05Thing 06Thing 07Thing 08Thing 09Thing 10Thing 11Thing 12Thing 13Thing 14Thing 15Thing 16Thing 17Thing 18Thing 19Thing 20Thing 21Thing 22Thing 23linksthing 01thing 02videohttp://voyage-through-time.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Laura)Blogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978544209742513633.post-3715647197839096786Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:06:00 +00002010-04-08T03:08:10.648-07:00This blog and all its contents has now moved to Wordpress. You can find it at:http://voyagethroughtime.wordpress.com/I'm still getting the layout sorted out, but it should be up and running by next week.That's all, folks :)http://voyage-through-time.blogspot.com/2010/04/laura-has-left-building.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978544209742513633.post-3720463677805673080Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:48:00 +00002010-04-07T09:50:51.502-07:00As the 23 Things programme rolls to an end, I've had to face up to the problem of online identities, my main issue being that I have three. I've been online for nearly four years now, and in the communities that I first joined, pseudonyms were normal. Everyone chose a name that said something about them, or related to their interests or that they liked the sound of. For many of us who've http://voyage-through-time.blogspot.com/2010/04/identity-crisis-ii.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978544209742513633.post-6462727053609843060Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:42:00 +00002010-04-07T03:46:08.090-07:00Picked up from Phil Bradley's Twitter: A 2.5 year old encounters the iPad for the first time. Fascinating to see how quickly she picks it up, although he does say in the whole article here that she already knows how to use an iPhone. I'm not entirely sold on the iPad personally, but that's probably because I have a Touch, which seems remarkably similar, only littler. And I have my netbook and http://voyage-through-time.blogspot.com/2010/04/ipad-cometh.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978544209742513633.post-6992674004867163299Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:56:00 +00002010-04-07T02:08:08.219-07:00Thing 21Thing 22Thing 23Well, I added the Delicious widget to my iGoogle page, didn't like the way it looked there and removed it again. I think that's because I don't really use Delicious as a networking/discovery tool, I use it as a personal bookmarking account so that I can access my bookmarks from any computer, anywhere. If there's a subject I want to keep track of, I use my GReader account and RSS feeds, which http://voyage-through-time.blogspot.com/2010/04/home-straight.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978544209742513633.post-3585219845372151248Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:12:00 +00002010-03-24T03:36:12.123-07:00Thing 19Thing 20I absolutely love Google documents and wouldn't be without it. Although I've never used it for work, in my personal life, I use documents, forms and spreadsheets to do just about everything. My writing is all in the cloud, which means I'm less likely to lose drafts and random snippets that I might want some day, and Google forms are just brilliant. I'm running something right now that has overhttp://voyage-through-time.blogspot.com/2010/03/cloudy-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978544209742513633.post-904956676179352424Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:38:00 +00002010-03-23T02:43:45.027-07:00videoThis came up on various of my RSS feeds this morning, along with an invitation to the Cataloguer's Forum, so I couldn't resist re-posting.The speaker is Simon Spero from ibiblio.org, and he gave this 2.38 minute talk at the recent Code4lib conference. Considering the OLIS issues this morning, it seemed appropriate... I originally picked this up from Roy Tennant's post at Library Journal[with http://voyage-through-time.blogspot.com/2010/03/cthulu-fhtagn.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978544209742513633.post-6629811233534931473Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:30:00 +00002010-03-19T08:10:56.821-07:00Thing 17Thing 18Wikipedia is both an incredibly useful resource, and the absolute bane of a teacher/information professional's life. It's become ubiquitous as a source of all knowledge, and a recent spat with the Encyclopedia Britannica didn't settle the matter, it only added fuel to the fire.I use Wikipedia all the time to look up TV shows and people I've never heard of, as well as finding a good source of http://voyage-through-time.blogspot.com/2010/03/all-knowledge-is-contained-on-wikipedia.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978544209742513633.post-3706091892676570124Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:01:00 +00002010-03-16T05:11:54.124-07:00HelpfulSecurityVery quickly (because twice in one day is probably more blogging than absolutely necessary), I've seen three or four posts this morning about having to remember yet another username and password for the various Web 2.0 accounts.There are two approaches to this. The first is to have them written down in a notebook. Yes, I know that sounds crazy, but most hackings happen remotely, so whoever's http://voyage-through-time.blogspot.com/2010/03/freeing-up-memory.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978544209742513633.post-3422286235458549839Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:29:00 +00002010-03-16T03:39:24.133-07:00Blogging about BloggingAnd it was all going so well. It's been interesting over the last few weeks to read how concerned people are about putting their personal information on the internet. It's a concern I understand, but particularly if you work in an Oxford (or other academic) library, there's already information about you out there. Your name is already searchable, and there might even be a staff picture that's http://voyage-through-time.blogspot.com/2010/03/two-steps-forward.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978544209742513633.post-4603146848891217669Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:29:00 +00002010-03-12T03:36:56.821-08:00Blogging about BloggingI am officially the happiest blogger in blogland this morning, thanks to the new customisable templates from Blogger. One of the things I always said I didn't like about Blogger was how I couldn't make this place look how I wanted, and that my options were really, really limited. If I'm honest, I still find the dashboard very confusing to use, but being able to not just tweak but completely http://voyage-through-time.blogspot.com/2010/03/for-indecisive-among-us.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978544209742513633.post-2292962759808160422Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:25:00 +00002010-03-10T10:32:24.031-08:00Thing 15Thing 16Ah, where would we be without Twitter? Actually, don't answer that.I've had a personal Twitter account for some time, and as soon as I can come up with a username I can live with, I'll set up a work one (answers on the back of a postcard, please...) Initially, I think my sheep-like tendencies were why I got an account - everyone else seemed to be doing it, so I decided I would as well - and http://voyage-through-time.blogspot.com/2010/03/all-twitter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978544209742513633.post-6167652499084231379Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:18:00 +00002010-03-02T06:27:41.468-08:00Thing 14I've had a LinkedIn account for a while, but once again, 23 Things has me updating the gadgets I'd forgotten about, and possibly remembering why I didn't use them in the first place.The interface at LinkedIn is far from intuitive, but I definitely see the value in having a professional online network, as distinct from those provided by Facebook, Twitter and even Blogger. I know several people http://voyage-through-time.blogspot.com/2010/03/joining-dots-or-not.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978544209742513633.post-5487802253267712801Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:44:00 +00002010-03-02T06:18:12.376-08:00Thing 13Okay, I have to be honest at this point and say that I'm not a huge fan of Facebook. It's not that I don't see its value, quite the contrary. When I've lost someone's email address, being able to find it again is terribly useful. It's also handy for keeping track of birthdays and seeing photographs and suchlike, but there's something about the small update window and the sheer volume of...http://voyage-through-time.blogspot.com/2010/03/fess-up.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978544209742513633.post-8620857058670339700Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:11:00 +00002010-02-26T01:39:02.989-08:0023 thingsThing 12Like many other 23 Things bloggers, I'm a big fan of YouTube. It's great when you're trying to remember an advert from ten years ago, or you want lots of funny videos about cats. Personally, I don't watch much 'user generated' content there, mostly because life's too short and there's just too much to keep up with. The BBC has an excellent presence, letting me catch up with little bits of http://voyage-through-time.blogspot.com/2010/02/sometimes-i-go-on-internet-but.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978544209742513633.post-1115026340562403770Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:57:00 +00002010-02-23T07:04:07.916-08:00Dear Blogger,I was not inclined to love you. It took me long enough to figure out my Livejournal, but at least over there people organise themselves into communities to help one another. I find the independent nature of blogs over here disconcerting, I find the menus hard to navigate, and I never seem to be able to find the option I want when I want it. Having said all that, I was prepared to http://voyage-through-time.blogspot.com/2010/02/open-letter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978544209742513633.post-4956040405821802608Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:56:00 +00002010-02-26T01:38:49.263-08:0023 thingsThing 11My most recent technology purchase was an iPod Touch, a considerable step up from my old, chunky MP3 player. It has lots of fun features, not least an addictive touchscreen game, but undoubtedly the best thing about it is how it handles podcasts. If I'm honest, I don't find iTunes the most instinctive programme in the world, and I have terrible trouble with my music on it since most of them arehttp://voyage-through-time.blogspot.com/2010/02/pod-addicted.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978544209742513633.post-5218709714696183732Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:17:00 +00002010-02-21T06:20:36.288-08:00Another win for Delicious. I save everything in my account, to the point where I barely know what I've got any more. My 'to_read' list is ridiculously long and I've had clearing it out on my to-do list for months.Anyway, I was saving yet another recipe in there, with my usual 'recipe' tag, when Delicious suggested the tag 'recipe-dairy-free'. Which made me wonder if I'd thought to save the http://voyage-through-time.blogspot.com/2010/02/organised-serendipity.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978544209742513633.post-3569726423822037610Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:34:00 +00002010-02-26T01:38:36.967-08:0023 thingsThing 10As I think I said in Thing 9, Delicious Networks aren't really something I've explored very far. I did add the Law Library to my account though, and I had a skim through what my existing network had bookmarked recently. From what I can see, they're mostly looking for pretty pictures and knitting patterns. It could be worse.I can definitely see the value of a Delicious network, kept in some http://voyage-through-time.blogspot.com/2010/02/networking.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978544209742513633.post-88214277217563397Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:45:00 +00002010-02-26T01:38:26.184-08:0023 thingsThing 09I've been intrigued to read people's reactions to Delicious, and thought I'd better write my own thoughts down before I go commenting on other people's blogs. I am a huge, huge fan of Delicious and use it all the time. The first thing I do when I update my browser or get a new one (I've recently switched from Firefox to Chrome) is to install the Delicious extension, so that I can save bookmarks http://voyage-through-time.blogspot.com/2010/02/tag-youre-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978544209742513633.post-7249771204495591504Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:17:00 +00002010-02-26T01:38:08.136-08:0023 thingsThing 07Thing 08Things 7 and 8 were to do with photo editing, which isn't something I feel I have a particular knack for. I love photographs, but I take very bad ones, and I don't really have a good enough eye for colour/style to feel confident doing interesting things to my pictures. So I thought this 'Thing' was going to be fairly quick and simple. I already have a Flickr account, which I use for keeping http://voyage-through-time.blogspot.com/2010/02/look-of-thing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978544209742513633.post-3204691860077437574Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:00:00 +00002010-02-26T01:37:53.396-08:0023 thingsThing 05Thing 06Ah, Google Reader, where would I be without you? As with other parts of 23 Things, I'm using my existing Google Reader for this, since it's already over-subscribed! The only trouble with it is that it's attached to a different online identity, but the screencap gives you an idea of how it's set up:As you can see, I've got lots of folders there, and expanding just one of them will give you an ideahttp://voyage-through-time.blogspot.com/2010/02/ah-google-reader-where-would-i-be.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978544209742513633.post-6730385636584810015Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:02:00 +00002010-02-26T01:37:43.059-08:0023 thingsThing 04Being the glutton for punishment that I am, I clicked on every link in the sidebar at the 23 Things Blog. Yup, that's right, I looked at every single 23 Things blog at Oxford. It was an interesting experience.Common themes included not having enough time 'for this blogging thing', that RSS readers take too much time to get through, or just plain not seeing the point of some 'Things' at all. http://voyage-through-time.blogspot.com/2010/02/thing-4-update.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978544209742513633.post-8342190014268056049Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:37:00 +00002010-02-26T01:35:52.246-08:0023 thingsThing 04There are a lot of people taking part in 23 Things. No really, even more than that. I've barely had time to work my way through the 'a's and the 'w's (I tend to start at the top, realise that I always start at the top then skip to the bottom. I may never get to read anything beginning with 'm')Trying to read them all will be impossible, but a quick sampling has proved interesting. It's http://voyage-through-time.blogspot.com/2010/02/its-rainingerblogs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978544209742513633.post-6870985724531515744Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:21:00 +00002010-02-26T01:34:33.831-08:0023 thingsthing 01thing 02After some thought, I decided to set up a completely new Google ID for the 23 Things programme, but not to set up a new blog. For one thing, Google gets awfully confused if you try to register too many IDs, and for another, I originally conceived this blog as a professional, rather than a personal, place. So I've ended up with a sort of odd mishmash, where I'm using some of the old and some of http://voyage-through-time.blogspot.com/2010/02/multiple-identity-disorder.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8978544209742513633.post-7517346034818299600Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:14:00 +00002010-02-26T01:34:52.514-08:0023 thingsThing 03As usual, I'm late to the party, but I'm finally getting going on the 23 Things programme properly. It's taken more rearranging of my online life than I'd expected, and I now need a chart to keep my personal, professional and online identities untangled. Although I've had this blog for a while, and although I feel I'm fairly confident with Web 2.0 applications, I'm hoping that 23 Things will http://voyage-through-time.blogspot.com/2010/02/actually-getting-started.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0