Photo Sharing

Besides IM, I think my favorite Web 2.0 tool is online photo sharing. Of course, you wouldn't know if from visiting my Flickr account at http://www.flickr.com/people/mcthill, where I have just a few public pictures posted from the Bohemian National Cemetery, and not very good pictures, at that.

I often use the search function at Flickr when I'm looking for images with a Creative Commons License. It's amazing what beautiful shots you can find-- of almost anything--to use in teaching, websites, and handouts.

Since I've had my Flickr account for a few months now, I decided to begin experimenting with Picasa. I figure that Google owns me, so perhaps I should go with a Google product. I have found that editing images with Picasa software is fun and easy, and that Picasa does a great job of organizing all of the photographs I have stored in different nooks and crannies of the computer. I don't know that it will replace Flickr for me as a way to share photographs, though. I guess I need to play with the program some more before I decide.

LibGuides, del.icio.us, and the society for creative anachronisms

I've had a delicious account for a couple of months now: http://del.icio.us.com/mcthill.

When I was doing research for the NEIU LibGuides project, I saw LibGuides at other libraries that used tag clouds to organize librarian-vetted websites, courtesy of delicious. They looked so pretty that I just had to give del.icio.us a try. Now all of my public tags relate to English and American literature and/or the research process, and are posted straight to LibGuides.

I've been thinking about revising my tags to include more phrases, as in "16_century_poetry." I find the single-word tags very limiting. I generally ignore the pink bars, only because I don't think that the approval of many users means that the site will be better for my students. For medieval literature, for instance, some of the most popular sites address the interests of gamers and creative anachronists.

Ubiquitous

I'm the Circus Librarian here.

I'm the Righteous Librarian on pbwiki. (That's righteous as in dude, excellent.)

I'm myself on Google Pages and Facebook.

That covers it. I think I'm pretty much everywhere.