Here's a picture of our resident frog who comes out every night to swim in a bowl of water we have in the garden.

RSS Feeds

This is actually something that I'm already using, I subscribed to FESA alerts through Outlook so I can get up-to-date info about bushfires.
The five sites that I think are useful are:
FESA fire alerts - this is the first RSS I set up because there are always fires in the hills and if you live up there it's good to know whether you are going to be able to get home!
Perthnow - traffic jams and peak hours traffic updates - also useful for driving home
Art Gallery of WA- to keep up with the latest exhibitions
Unshelved - for fun
Guggenheim - it's interesting to see what's going on elsewhere in the world and how awesomely creative people can be - check out "A Biennial of creative video".

http://www.youtube.com/user/playbiennial/?x=dHlwZT12aWRlbyZpZD1uMFA2dUlZZVAwcyZjb3VudHJ5PUFMTA

I'm probably more likely to use RSS through Outlook than through Google Reader because, obviously, I look at that every day.   I could see that the libraries could offer a subscription to patrons to keep them up-to-date with events, maybe new books etc.  Could be useful.

First Post

So here's my first post, not sure what to write about but  I'm not sure whether this blog is something I'd do if I wasn't doing it for this course but it's been interesting getting it set up and playing with the design settings, I like that there are heaps of different backgrounds to choose from.  You could spend a lot of time making it very specky or just use a template and keep it quick and simple.  I think the hardest part was thinking of a subject to write about but I'm building the frog bog and pond at the moment so I thought that would be something I could at least talk about and then add photos as I go and also add links to sites I've used to get ideas.  I think you'd have to be quite passionate about a subject (or like typing) to spend a lot of time writing and commenting on or about blogs.

Flickr

A nice photo of a motorbike frog.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/warpedtime/751408210

I've just joined Flickr and am going to try and upload some photos from my garden and also put them in my blog.  I've already found a few groups on Flickr that have some cool photos of native garden design.  I've also found that by looking at the groups that other people are members of I've found links to other groups that I'm interested in. One of the things I've already noticed on flickr just from using it a few times is that if the tagging is really important otherwise it's quite hard to narrow down your search.  I've tried to look for Australian content and seem to end up with photos from all over the world.  But maybe that's just me! 

I've used Flickr before to look at pictures of libraries and I think that it has been quite inspirational to see what can be achieved if you have the money and the vision.  
 
Red chairs in the new Salon, Learning Commons Renovation, Scott Library, York University, Toronto

http://www.flickr.com/photos/riverdaleto/5027745835/in/pool-ola_worldlibraries



National Library of the Czech Republic.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fkada/4757043538/in/pool-ola_worldlibraries

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brokentoyshop/4362657368/