YouTube

My experience of YouTube to date has mostly consisted of the Monty Python channel, and library-related videos that I've found via other people's blogs.


I started to explore the site further and found a concise animation showing ionic and covalent bonding - a hard concept to explain, so great to see it demonstrated.  Reactions of alkali metals in water is also fun to watch!


Perhaps I began to stray too far into chemistry, so I began to look for library-related videos instead, e.g.
Michael Stephens on Using Twitter in Libraries
and lots of content about information literacy.  


In my current role, I don't use YouTube for work purposes, but I can see how libraries could identify useful videos (e.g. doing citations, how to use self-issue, navigating the library catalogue) and flag them up on their Delicious page for their users.

Podcasts

I have long been a fan of BBC Radio 4's Friday Night Comedy podcast, and this Thing has prompted me to explore pastures new, so I will now also be listening to Woman's Hour and The Moth - a storytelling podcast.

Expanding my Delicious network

I've added some more individuals and some libraries to my Delicious network.  I'm particularly interested to see how other libraries use tags to segment their bookmarks for their users.

Delicious

My Delicious ID is laura_wilkinson


I have been meaning to start using Delicious for years and I'm glad I'm finally getting around to it! I built up almost 100 bookmarks very quickly by adding my starred items from Google Reader, bookmarks from my work web browser and favourites from Twitter.


I have tagged some of my Web 2.0 bookmarks with “ox23” tag so that other members of the programme can find them.  I also use tags to identify bookmarks that I use for work, and bookmarks relating to crafting.

iPhone apps

I enjoyed reading JoAnne's iPhone app recommendations and thought I'd post a few of my own:


Tweetie - for Twitter
Facebook
Google - I use it for accessing Gmail and Google Reader mainly
Bump - for transferring contacts and photos with other iPhone users
Mobile Oxford - the University of Oxford app
Battery - tells me how much power remains for music playback / talk time / wifi use
London Bus - for finding out which bus to catch when travelling in London
iXpenseIt - for keeping track of your expenses.  You can log your expenditures, export the data as a .csv file and then import it into Excel 
German Tutor - I'm all set for my trip to Berlin next week


HarborMaster - best 59p I've ever spent
Sudoku
SolFree - various different versions of the solitaire card game
Font Game - this is genius.  Perfect for font nerds like me.  Current high score 23/25.

Photos

Here are some photos from this week's adventures with Flickr and Picnik

A collage of Staff Library images:

And just for fun, a baby quilt I made:

Scrabble bedspread: 

Picnik

I went to the Picnik site, connected to my Flickr account and had a play around with the features which allow me to make collages and edit my photos.


I made a collage of some Staff Library photos, and changed the background colour.  I also added a frame to one of my crafting photos.  You can see the results in my Flickr photostream.


I enjoyed using Picnik - it's a fun and easy way to change the presentation of your photos and I can see how this could be used to liven up illustrations in a newsletter or on a website.  I'm quite tempted to subscribe to the Premium version which  has even more options! 


Some more sites I've discovered:
Roundpic - making round edges on images
Pixenate - editing and touching up images

Flickr

My Flickr screen name is Laura J. Wilkinson


I've added some photos of the OULS Staff Library and tagged them with "ox23".  I have given these a Creative Commons attribution licence.


I've also added some pictures of crafty things I have made, and these have attribution share alike licences. Find out more about Creative Commons licences.

RSS feeds

I love Google Reader - I've been using it for a few years now.  Every so often I change the feeds I subscribe to, and currently have 47.

Some work-related recommendations:

Mashable! and BoingBoing - for finding out what's new on the internet

OxfordTrainees - find out what the graduate trainees are doing

Stephen's Lighthouse - Stephen Abram, Vice President of Innovation at SirsiDynix

The Google Blog - what's new at Google

Swiss Army Librarian - Brian Herzog (I particularly like his focus on library service)

And some for fun:

The CRAFT blog, Post Secret, XKCD