Twitter

Now that I've been using Twitter for a couple of weeks, I'm ready to concede that it does have some good points. I follow ABC news, and I've found that it's a good source for news and other information. I don't have a television, or really listen to the radio, so unless I read a newspaper or go online I can often miss important things. So that's one good thing.

I'm also following Marshall Breeding, who's a bit of a big-time guy in the world of Digital Information Management. I actually discovered him for Information Discovery, but some of the articles that he posts onto his Twitter account are quite relevant to this course. He also has a website which is full of interesting information. Judy O'Connell, who I've mentioned on here before, is also on Twitter, and she posts some good links for Information Management.

My favourite Twitter account, however, is louis as art. I'm not at all a One Direction fan, and I'm not even sure if it's pronounced the French way or not, but some industrial person has taken the time to find artworks that are evocative of photographs of Louis from One Direction. And some of them are brilliant. Here's a few examples:

sunrise // chris hobel pic.twitter.com/g4Kjv4AMBB
— louis as art (@artlikelouis) March 19, 2015

(one more first day of spring post) abstract knives // unknown pic.twitter.com/ZkjFlugYKL
— louis as art (@artlikelouis) March 20, 2015

pink shadows // ellen ys - #KCA #Vote1DUК pic.twitter.com/0qxaCAwTnu
— louis as art (@artlikelouis) March 28, 2015

I also just taught myself how to embed tweets! Took me a little while, but after last weeks class in HTML, I didn't panic, I followed the instructions, and did it myself! It really is amazing what I'm learning here.

EndNote and the joys of Trove

In class this week we (those of us that didn't have it) downloaded EndNote, a referencing system which will surely make life easier when writing our assignments. I've never used it before, it wasn't around when I was at Uni last time. It definitely would have helped during my Arts degree, where there were heaps of references for each essay. I used to spend hours making my reference page perfect, mostly as way to defer the actual writing part.

Also this week we were editing articles on Trove and Wikipedia. I've never edited anything on Wikipedia, never really had a desire to, but Trove is much more my style. It's a bit like a crossword, or a word search, and I love a crossword. I have been working on my cryptic crossword abilities, but a straight crossword I'm very good at. So the work that Trove needs, the editing of the text, is something that I can do for hours.

An interesting blog that i found this week is judyoconnell.com. She writes thoughtful pieces on libraries and connectivity that I've found quite helpful. She's a Teacher Librarian now working at Charles Sturt University as Course Director in the School of Information Studies. Many of her blog posts are closely related to what we're studying here, which is great.