News from SLNSW

Government 2.0

This blog post analyses Australian government web traffic - and web 2.0 use http://egovau.blogspot.com/2008/10/putting-australian-government-web.html
This post (by the same blogger) shows how some recent planning consultation was done in Melbourne using a wiki and other online tools
http://egovau.blogspot.com/2008/10/success-of-future-melbourne-online-wiki.html

Statistics

This blog from the ABS makes exciting reading for lots of different statistical reasons http://abs4libraries.blogspot.com/

Week 11 Online apps

Had a go at the Google Docs presentation:

Week 10 - Mashups

Not another thing to join, another sign-up to remember. Once I got over this hurdle, I found it immensely enjoyable to create my own mashup......

How clever are some of the webistes we visited? I loved the images associated with maps, googlemaps (including streetview - did you check out your house?)...the starry night sky in Star Viewer, London - a life in google maps....

Will we all be creating calendars with our own photos for Christmas now?

Second Life?

Are you interested in research into second life?

The Eduserv Foundation are producing snapshots of use of Second Life focusing on use within the UK Higher and Further Education sector.

You can read about the snapshots here:

http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/studies/slsnapshots and the most recent report is available from here http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/sl/uksnapshot102008

For Caledonia

Week 10 Mashups

Highlites this week have been London a Life, and Voicefreds; I have had the DNA mashup from Bighugelabs on my flickr profile for some time and use it regularly because it gives more detailed info than the standard flickr stats which only pro accounts get anyway. The poster is the motivator from BHL.

Mashups cont . . .

Having spent a fair time puddling about with web 2.0 and ignoring the trolley of cataloguing at the side of my desk this week, I'd PROMISED myself I would knuckle down and get through said cataloguing . . .

However, my beloved side-kick here has been doing Week 10 and asking me questions and I've got sucked in big time. We've had quite a giggle. She'll hate me telling you this (sotto vocce), but she Warhol-ed herself and ended up with a fabulous beard. All shredded now sadly . . .

Thought I'd let you know about two other mashup things while I remembered.

First up is AutoMotivator. Similar to the Motivator in Big Huge Labs. Helps you create posters. How creative could we get at work? Very I think.

Here's one I prepared earlier:

The second is Wordle. Have I mentioned it before? Take a muckle great wad of text and put it in Wordle and see what happens.

This is how To a Louse came out:

Now, isn't that so much easier to read??