#15 RSS feeds

I've used Google Reader for a while and find it handy to read all ones feeds in one place. As the space grows you can also organize feeds into folders. All the blogs I'm following feed into this reader. It's an easy way to follow the progress of my classmates on this course and I could imagine it to be useful to a course facilitator too for the same reason.

#14 Facebook

I have a personal Facebook profile and I've linked it to Pageflakes which is my home page. In this way I stay connected with friends from school and university and keep up with my relatives overseas.

#13 MySpace

Personally I find MySpace too commercial. It is useful if you want to follow celebritity profiles, but I prefer Facebook for personal use. There is also a lot of unwanted advertising on MySpace. I could see the application of a MySpace page for a public library, as long as it is frequently maintained. My experience with Drupal is with a previous version and we use it on our intranet. It has a much more conservative look than the examples in the link. It is quite cumbersome to load images and you need a bit of coding knowledge to make it work properly.

Visual dictionary

Shahi is a visual dictionary that combines Wiktionary content with Flickr images.
http://blachan.com/shahi/

#12 Flickr: This Photo Rocks!

This Photo Rocks!
Originally uploaded by Extra Medium

Fantastic play on words and colour!

#11 Library Thing

I am a real bookaholic, so I find LT really great. I think that it could be a specially useful tool in the library at our school, seeing that we're a distance education provider. The librarian could use the widget on the library's webpage to showcase new arrivals and it could also be interesting for students to see how widely these book are being read (or not).

#10 Image Generators

This is way too much fun! OK, I'm restricting myself to stop and show what I've created...
Cool Text Generator

Voki   She talks too!

Glowtext 
Fotosketcher This does require a download, but I think it's definitely worth the space. I've taken a Flickr photo and turned it into a water colour.