#12 - Rollyo

I had also played with Rollyo a while ago (2005?) and set up a search to look at a the State Library of Victoria, other state library and National Library sites. Try it if you like, the search is public, and is called NASLA...

#11 - LibraryThing

I had had a bit of a play with LibraryThing before, but never bothered to add books. But I've added some now - just a few and those which are within my view from where I am sitting at the computer - Jill Dupleix's excellent cookery books, and Henning Mankell, since I have read all of the Kurt Wallander books. You're welcome to have a look...

I also had a look at Lili's book list.

The other great things on LibraryThing are the BookSuggester and, even better since it is such a quirky idea, the UnSuggester! UnSuggester takes "people who like this also like that" and turns it on its head. It analyzes the sixteen million books LibraryThing members have recorded as owned or read, and comes back with books least likely to share a library with the book you suggest.

#10 - online image generators

Well, I was ahead on this one, having already played with them in the past, and then constructing an image for a friend's 60th birthday party on Saturday. And, of course, it turned out to be the same image generator used on the SLV Learning Services blog.

I thought it was rather good...

#8 & #9 - Blogs

Well, I've created my own Bloglines account. Have to say that - although I've been using the Google blog feed thing on my personalised Google homepage, and that I subscribe to a few blogs through AvantGo on my PDA, including Stephen's Lighthouse, Connecting Librarian, Information Wants To Be Free and Derek's ALIA Blog - Bloglines organises the information in a nice, clear and easily sortable way. So I might use it some more...

I've also re-subscribed to Derek's blog on Bloglines - especially since he blogged on the Millenials professional development session we hosted at the State Library of Victoria the other week. Is this a shade of hubris??

Attaching more photos

This is a photo I'm adding directly from Picasa - a table from a friend's cottage in the Cotwalds. Elegantly plain...

WikiMindMap

So the next task was to blog about something tech-y, and I thought I would say something about WikiMindMap.

This is a really interesting API which analyses a wiki (the live web version works with Wikipedia, but the site says that WikiMindMap will soon be available as intranet solution, so it could be used to analyse any wiki.)

If you think about it, a good wiki is structured by a whole group of contributors who determine the linkages and associations between entries. So, while the software only analyses the structure of the wiki, that structure really is a mind map if the wiki is any good.

Have a play, and see how you can move from Rousseau to Romanticism...

I've just uploaded a few more images, including my all-time-favourite memorial plaque - from a monument to Edmund Fettiplace in the church at Swinbrook in the Cotswolds (Swinbrook is also the village that the Mitfords come from...)

It reads:

IN PIOVS MEMORIE OF SR EDMVND FETTIPLACE, KNIGHT ON

READ AND RECORD RARE EDMVND FETTIPLACE:
A KNIGHT MOST WORTHY OF HIS RANK & RACE:
WHOSE PRVDENT MANEGE IN, TWO HAPPIE RAIGNES,
WHOSE PVBLIQUE SERVICE, & WHOSE PRIVATE PAINES.
WHOSE ZEALE, TO GOD, & TOWARDS ILL, SEVERITIE,
WHOSE TEMPERANCE, WHOSE IVSTICE, WHOSE SINCERITIE,
WHOSE NATIVE MYLDNES, TOWARDS GREAT AND SMALL
WHOSE FAITH AND LOVE, TO FRENDS, WIFE CHILDREN, ALL
IN LIFE AND, DEATH MADE HIM BELOVED, AND DEER
TO GOD AND MENN; AND EVER FAMOUS HEER:
BLESSED IN SOULE, IN BODIE, GOODS, AND NAME.
IN PLENIOVS PARTS BY A MOST VERTIOVS DAME.
WHO WITH HEI HEIRE AS TO HIS WORTH STILL DEBTER
BVILT HIM THIS TOOMB, BVT IN HER HEART A BETTER.