Social Bookmarking
I found aspects of this week's activities challenging. In particular Social bookmarking. I used Evernote once, quite some time ago, and quite possibly not particularly well. Research papers are of interest, however I never knew about social bookmarking, or perhaps had just a glimpse at Del.icio.us in about 2004. I remember thinking (I don't want my bookmarks to be public). It took me a while to find out about the 'death' of Delicious for this activity. I signed up to Mendeley and Diigo, perused others briefly. Once I started investigating both applications, I found it to be really interesting and exciting. My problems here mainly consist of how challenging I am finding it to manage information and a steep learning curve. Writing this weeks responses regarding the two social bookmarking apps has really helped me to gain confidence in continuing to utilise both as a part of my personal and professional practice.
Maps
I had fun with this. My maps look terrible, are a bit silly, but I enjoyed exploring what I could and couldn't do. I spent a lot of time trying to include a slide show from my Flickr account in to the map, somehow. It didn't work. Problem: Also I am conscious of the fact that I have used (4?) photos from a Mount Hotham Twitter account without acknowledgement. Yet to rectify.
Mashups
My mashup example perhaps was not a very good example as it only contained one extra 'mash' and actually may not even be considered a mash. Not a very web 2.0 example. My mashup was my holiday map that contained varying media though again couldn't get anything bold and interesting together. I spent time trying to do a video mashup on YouTube, a Macca-Pacca vs. Gangnam Style (backwards). I had permissions issues and gave up. However I really enjoyed listening to this mashup as I worked that day See tweet.
I think I could've found better examples of mashups. I was trying to find Museum or Library related ones. I liked one that utilised YouTube to include on their overview of Born Digital.