The adventure continues...

Today, I looked at eBookee and Tangler, completing the final episode in this stage of my adventure. I didn't have much success with eBookee. Being a crime fiction junkie, I had a look for books written by some of my favourite authors like Robert Crais. I found that the pages couldn't be found for most of my searches which was a little disappointing. I tried Stephen King as an author but again, there were a lot of broken links on eBookee. I read some summaries of books and looked at popular titles in general. The magazines available from eBookee were interesting. I checked out the computing titles as we don't subscribe to many IT publications here in the Tax Office Library. However, most of the titles were about gaming. In the end, I decided that browsing the shelves in the local public library and the bookshops would be more satisfying than using this site. I must confess that I haven't, as yet, got into the electronic book scene. Friends (who exercise) like to listen to audio books while jogging etc and others read their electronic books on public transport but I'm still a fan of the physical book. I looked for information on Amazon's Kindle and was pleased that at least I now know the name of an electronic book reader! The page may look like paper but you don't get to turn or dog-ear the pages!!

Tangler seems like a easy to use site for setting up a social networking chatroom and its application to libraries is very apparent. I followed some links to the LibarianInBlack blog and pondered over the fact that it's all very well to start such initiatives but it's very important to keep them current after the initial excitement may have waned. Otherwise, it wouldn't reflect well on the Library. Still, if the content was interesting, there's no reason to anticipate a lack of participation.

This week I also stumbled upon StumbledUpon.com, owned by eBay. At first, I thought that this was a site that would help me to keep a finger on the pulse of what was new and interesting on the Internet but its use seems to more for marketing sites which are StumbledUpon by those with StumbledUpon accounts who can give sites their thumbs up or thumbs down recommendations. There seems to be plenty of scope for biasing recommendations in order to promote a particular site.

So, that's it from me for this round of 23 things. Once again, I've enjoyed the experience and am feeling far more confident about signing up for and using different applications. Thank you to the Learning 2.1 facilitators for provoding me with this vehicle for discovering different technologies.