Heavyweight Battle

Google has launched their answer to Wikipedia, and its name is 'Knol'.
And I like it!

1. It's got colourful pictures. Call me shallow but I believe everything should be judged by its cover, especially books (what's that I hear, librarians around the world drawing in a collective gasp of shock!)
2. The writer does not remain anonymous. You want to be published you've got to show off your credentials baby! It also allows for some personality to be interjected into the article.
3. People to get to post comments on the article & author. The negative here is all the world's spellers are more than willing to show off their superior alphabet knowledge. I HATE those guys, in my world spelling is highly overrated!.
4. There’s a post on making 'buttermilk pancakes'. Genius!

So get to 'Knol' (http://knol.google.com/k) and the units of knowledge in your brain shall grow!

Flickr I Take It All Back

Well that's a lie; I don't actually take it all back. But I do love Flickr Colour Pickr. It's so pretty!! And it can be functional. It let me create the slide show of Great Zimbabwe, a place that I've walked all over, taken similar photos of, admired and miss much.

Great Zimbabwe is where Zimbabwe got it's name for, literally translated it means 'House of Stones'. The amazing thing about it is that Great Zimbabwe was built without the use of any kind of mortar, it's just one big pile of rocks careful placed upon another big pile of rocks. It was built in the 14th Century; it's crazy and astounding.

Rollyo

Jeez, the internet is smart. It allows you to steal other people's hard work left, right and centre.
However others shouldn't really take the credit, since I've pulled all their hardwork together into one big useful search tool. Me, so clever!

If you're ever on the hunt for for information on Aotearoa literature for kids and teens, you should really use my Rollyo seach engine located on the side bar. Just be sure to select the Aotearoa Youth Lit option.

One of These Things is Not Like the Other

Can you spot the odd one out?

Thanks to http://www.bighugelabs.com/ and their giggle inducing mosiac maker.

I Heart Library Thing

I'm the first to admit I have a long history of being a library geek. Yes, I was a student librarian at school (that didn't do my social life any favours). Prior to that I'd busy myself as a kid sticking tape all over my Dad's westerns, mending them in my own unique manner. So of course I loved library thing, no surprises there. However figuring out where to place the html on the blogger layout options I didn't love so much! And blogger help just confused me with all it's html & code talk, speak English please. However experimentation paid off and my superhero reading list is now available for all to see.

It’s official, Wonder Woman is a genius! And she owns an invisible plane. It just don’t get better than that.

Freaking Flickr!

No, I don't want to view a stranger's holiday snaps!
Nor do I care about random people's cute kids in silly poses.
And if I don't know you, I really don't want to know your pet!

While I understand the usefulness of Flickr and sharing photos I'm amazed at the sheer number of photos out there, the prolific comments posted and the time spent (wasted) on viewing thousand upon millions of images. I got books to read people & trash TV to watch.

So will I be inflicting my photos on you? NO! And it’s not just because I don’t own a digital camera. It’s because I actually enjoy the mystery and process of dropping a film off to get developed. Who knows what pictures will be returned to you, what shameful deeds or hideous grimaces have been forever caught on film. And the delightful surprise of actual finding a nice picture of yourself amongst the twenty bad ones. That sh*t is priceless…