Youtube, Metube, we all Tube together

Youtube has always been awesome, and always will be. Moment I saw this up there I knew this would be a fun one to write a little about after the slow paced push to get something up there about wiki's other then the way to basically always discribe them as "An organised database of user contributed information" Youtube was gonna be a breath of fresh air. Now... I didn't need to search for lego to know what was on there. I already did... Lots over the years. I'm not a kid. I'm just special :P

I onced watched a very funny video on youtube about lego aliens, predators and jason. Jason was winning and near the end gets jumped by a lego face hugger! So cool. I had a hard time loading the clips due to some technical... Difficulties, however I decided eventually instead of looking for the video I wanted I'd just throw this one up related to it, and massively funny aliens vs predator xbox game commercial - Enjoy!



The value in using a media engine like this for use in the world place is immense. As long as you had a service that could provide the internet in a smooth running fashion for everyone to view you could make your instructions in a video format with demonstrations. I can see the use for this perhaps making a video to use our website avaliable online however - If it would be used is the question however by people wanting to learn how to use our resources better.

Whoot! Wookieepedia :)

Wiki's... I know them. I like them. And I can't believe Wookieepedia is on the recommended have a look list! With my sort of life I generally will open a wiki and have a browse to discover the information I need - For work or for my own personal life. You can find a wiki for just about anything and everything and I already knew of the star wars one for I read over it quite often back when I use collect the star wars miniatures game and read the New Republic series of books to find out about the characters I was collecting. At the moment I've used it quite often to pull up stats and historalic information on world war II and battles surrounding it so we can somewhat recreate them in our Axis and Allies games.

A few of the links were to libraries who used their wiki's much like a forum to get information out there about their library and what they are doing. I also noticed one of the wiki's was being used to catalog the book reviews they had recieved - Which is one way of dealing with the problem of how to best present book reviews.

One library broke down the library, and how it was present by branches, locations, phone numbers, associations and then also supplied their services and series by a title page link system which was quite easy to use when broken down into catagories then again by topic headings.

One of ways of communicating with the outside world a wiki could be a important source of information on everything to do with the library especially if you allowed all the members to edit the topics when concerning novels and the series. Even just allowing the staff to edit and change could be a nifty thing if the staff is larger.

Anywho, onto ... media online stuff :)

RSS or RRS? Whoops! Hey ... Feeds... Cool.

My searches were quick and easy, chasing up things about video games and movies and the popular online comics about gaming such as ctrl alt del and penny arcade jumped up with a huge selection of hits which I could of spent hours pouring through. I even through in quotes of the day, cause who doesn't like reading smart, intelligent or quick one-liners they wish they could remember later? Aftering adding several of interest I threw in the Powerhouse Picture of the day feed for good measure and finished it up. These can be used to link important news, features or just get the information out there for people to know! I think this tool is fantastic in the modern day being able to just throw up a way to get it all out there. I choose some work related bits for the library and for new best seller books, I tend to like the new york times best seller list for its had a few of my all time favorite series included in it such as the Horus Heresy and the Dark Elf Trilogy. I think we could use this quite easily if we kept up with our RSS and used it to public it for the library's benefit :)

I touched on this last time...

Last time I touched on that I enjoyed movies and gaming so this time I thought I'd mention more those games I find myself pouring endless hours into. At the moment this one such game I constantly play with a friend, - It can also be played online with a total of 4 players and 4 "infected" players trying to hunt them down heh.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gogdog/3042999356/

The idea of the game is simple, there has been a zombie apolocolpyse and now they plague the streets looking for those lucky few survivors who are immune to the desease. The games story is much like the story from the game 28 days later and it's sequal 28 weeks later, where the zombies are created from a virus strain that causes them to enrage and attack other people rather then being actual "living dead corpses". It also incorporates the idea of "special" infected who can be controled by players to hunt the survives online, these stray away from the very good theme but add a challenge to the game that the designers felt was needed.
The game is done with steams wonderful valve engine, that was used in the game Counter-Strike source. They actually got the idea while play testing counter-strike against things called "Bots" which are Artifical controled characters who are run by game using pre-designed code. These bots can never be as good as players, but hordes of these with knives rushing them gave them the desire to make a thrilling game about zombies in the same style where players fight through the stage to make a safehouse and eventually evacuation.

Computer games such as Compant of Heroes, Dawn of War II and Halo Wars are also absorbing some of my time currently. I also play a bit of a board game called Axis and Allied Miniatures by Wizards of the Coast (Who are now a huge game retailer!). But I'll leave these alone as I've already had a good rant about Left 4 Dead... And yes I -will- leave people for dead to make that safe house.

S.A.

Who would trust me with a blog?

Hey folks,
This is my first time using a blog although I am more then a little familiar with forums and most internet things having raised myself chained to a computer since probably the age of 14. I've been intending to use it more often for personal uses to review movies, games and just get my oppinion out there ready to be either loved or hated! :)
Learning doesn't really end, at each age you progress and learn more be it for your work, love life or simply just life in general. School of hard knocks hey? I use to moderate a forum for a text-based game I once administrated on (A MUD - Multi-user domain) and I've found these blogs to be vastly similiar just less chatty and more one person ranting which is just fine with me! Administrating on the game and the forum was probably some of the best times of my young life, as I spent a great deal of my time helping people along what they needed or wanted to know about the game and to be honest, it's alot like blogging :)
I've been pestering everyone around here to let me have a library blog to type reviews, chat or just get people talking as a community about the library and its books. The benefits in this could be endless with the proper amount of supervision to stop "flaming" we could have people get involved and really just harness the gains of a community.
If I was to blog, I don't think I could blog to well for a corporate audiance, I'm more set to talk my way and style about the things I enjoy, be it novels, movies, games or just personal oppinion in a way that adds my own imaginative flare :) Although difficult as it may be I can hold myself back when required and speak as officially as I need too heh.

Hawt! P.S. I also enjoy long walks on the beach at night, Earshot and many many other bands .. Rawr.