New pathways

When reading the article "Library 2.0 - An academic perspective" the authors included a link to "Evaluating web content" which I found interesting. This link referred to a list of bookmarks and I eventually found a reference to Citeulike. This bookmark is useful for finding references to scholarly material on the web. It would be a handy tool for students looking for scholarly information within their area of study. If a university has subscriptions to the journals listed in Citeulike the articles can be accessed immediately. Swinburne University had access to all the citations I selected.

Delicious Junction

I've visited del.icio.us and found a number of sites that reflect my interests. A site that I particularly like is the one for Bush Heritage Australia. Bush Heritage is a non-profit making organization that purchases properties with the aim of protecting Australia's unique plants and animals and their habitats. This organization has just purchased Yourka Station in far north Queensland and the frog in the picture is found on this reserve. This frog and its habitat certainly looks worthy of preservation to me!

Social bookmarking is fine for recreational use but I do not envisage that I would find it useful for my work activities.

The photo of Lesuer's frog found on Yourka Reserve was taken by Wayne Lawler and appears in the summer edition of Bush Heritage news.