LinkedIn

Explored http://learn.linkedin.com/
Looks useful.
Drew the line at signing up, at least until I can face creating yet another username and password.

Facebook and libraries

Social networking in a non-social context. Plenty of serious studies done in this area.
One LSE study http://clt.lse.ac.uk/Projects/Case_Study_Five_report.pdf refers to an
OCLC report, ‘Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World’ which apparently concluded that social networking is ‘not for libraries’. But that was 2007, ancient history in web terms.

More recent is this article, Use of Facebook in academic health sciences libraries
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2605034/
J Med Libr Assoc. 2009 January; 97(1): 44–47.
The consensus? a useful marketing tool and could be even more so once greater numbers of libraries embrace it.

My Delicious

Just noticed I forgot to give the link to my account as proof the deed was done:
http://delicious.com/juliet.thing

Podcasts and videos

Find some podcasts we were told, so I thought I'd try out University of Oxford on iTunes U for a listen to one of the many oxford lectures which have been made freely available. Apparently it's been a worldwide hit and has just passed its 2 millionth download. What a marvellous way to share this august institution's intellectual output with the wider world.
As we don't have iTunesU installed on our pcs I'm consulting the FAQs and see an alternative channel is via http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Top of the pops there is A short romp through the history of philosophy by Marianne Talbot, which is playing on my pc via Windows Media Player on as I write. It's going in one ear and out the other so it's good to know you can rewind and replay!

YouTube I'm not a big user of but am happy to have a quick search for something sheep related. Here we have 17 seconds of Shaun the Sheep & flock doing Riverdance, which is cracking me up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8DFwb3zlDk

What an absolute marvel that all this podcast and video stuff is just, like, out there. Yet amazingly my search on YouTube for sheep library retrieves only one hit, er, "Two guys run through a college library during finals weeks dressed as a cow and sheep".

Delicious

Easy to use in some ways, eg tagging and searching for tags. Unexpectedly fiddly in other respects, eg couldn't install the bookmarklets thing, had to try more than one way to add people to my network. Anyway came across some interesting sites via the ox23 tag and my new network, for future perusal at least, which is the main point of the social bookmarking exercise.

Online photos and images

Created a flickr account, tentatively named nottheradcliffecamera. (Brain fizzing at yet another username and password.)

But behold this bevy of beauties - http://www.flickr.com/photos/47437773@N06/

If you've ever worked at the RSL and want to be added to the RSLdiaspora gallery do get in touch!

RSS feeds

Sign up for Google Reader - done.
Subscribe to some feeds - done.
Boggle at sudden torrent of incoming feeds - done.
Keep up with the 23things programme - just about!