Technorati

Had a look at Technorati.
Not feeling chatty about it. As for Web 2.0, well, it definately will impact on Libraries of the future, it is already impactign on us with the amount of time we are spending on this training. A colleague of mine was here for hours last night trying to catch up wiht her Blog.

Where I work,we still have kids who come in and can't tell the time, and children roaming around at the age of 3 unaccompanied by adults, homeless people snoozing, and I love this real world, and like talking to all these real PEOPLE . Not sure what point I am making.

I am sounding a bit grumpy and tired today, so I am going to cease writing for now.

Delicious Rave on Passwords

I registered for a Delicious account ( another password another login). I think this will be useful for Bookmarking, but I don't quite get the point of tagging other peoples Bookmarks, because it just gets more and more information and I already feel overloaded. I like the easy simple things. My enthusiasm is waning, as I want to go back an live in the rain forest to escape all this STUFF!

I now have a a login and password for Blogger, Bloglines, Delicious, Rollyo, Library Thing, my work computer, my home computer, my online banking, ebay, paypal, ticketmaster, and I am sure there are more that I have forgotten, and it seems to be getting a bit crazy. I mean do I write them all down in a book, and then what if I loose that book. I can never remember half of them and don't want to use the same ones. Maybe someone should come up with a website where you can resister all your passwords, but then you would need a password for that site, and what if you forgot it......

Why the current intervention in the Northern Territory will not protect Aboriginal and Islander children

Dear Readers,

I have lapsed a bit with my writing in the last few weeks. I have to write about the Patrick Dodson talk that I went to two weeks ago. I don't care that It doesn't relate to learning 2.0 because it was so amazing. Patrick Dodson is a such a fantastic speaker, and listening to him is like jumping in to a cool creek on a hot day, his words are like cool water. He speaks so clearly and cuts through any ambiguity to the essence of the subject. I could listen to him all day!

I have put a link to an article he had in the The Age which was an extract from his talk.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/a-time-for-honest-talk/2007/10/09/1191695905428.html

I also want to include a few points about the Northern Territory Emergency Intervention Act 2007 that I have picked up from reading Coercive Reconciliation( see previous blog), reading the paper,attending the Patrick Dodson Talk and a talk at the Koorie Heritage Trust on Friday Nigh. This talk was held by Women from Wik, a lobby group that has formed since the legislation was enacted, that is working to lobby government in relation to the impact of the legislation on Aboriginal communities.

I do believe that the Government needed to act in relation to the findings of the Little Children are Sacred Report, but along with many other Australians, and many key Aboriginal Organisations and I think that Intervention if flawed, racist and does not implement any of the key recommendations found in the report.
These key points have been taken from http://www.listenupaustralia.org/the_evidence, as they articulate much better than I can.

• The main Act does not even use the word ‘children’ but talks about acquisition of rights, titles and interests in the land, and the ability of the Commonwealth to take over business management in communities, none of which has anything to with the protection of children
• The ‘emergency’ legislation is clearly an excuse for trampling on rights. The Acts expressly exempt these measures from the protection of the Racial Discrimination Act and give the Federal Minister for Indigenous Affairs extraordinary powers over the lives of Aboriginal and Islander people in the Northern Territory.
  The ability to sidestep the Racial Discrimination Act is inherently racist and has implications for Aboriginal and Islander people across the country.
• The Federal Government’s response ignores the recommendations of the Little Children are Sacred Report, particularly the first recommendation which calls on the Federal and Northern Territory Governments to work with Aboriginal and Islander leaders and communities to create a coordinated plan to address child abuse.
  Instead, the Federal Government has taken ‘emergency’ action without consultation or coordination with the effected communities.
• Take away land, property and community control by- granting 5 year leases to the Federal Government over major Aboriginal communities. No negotiation is required. These unconditional ‘leases’ give the Federal Government rights to exclusive possession, to repair or demolish any existing buildings and infrastructure, and to terminate the lease at any time. No rights are noted in favour of residents or traditional landowners. Compensation is not guaranteed. The leases do not guarantee Aboriginal people right of residence in communities – it is not clear what rights Aboriginal people have and whether the Government could evict Aboriginal people from their own communities.
  

Week Five - Play Part two- Rollyo and Library Thing

IMAGE GENERATORS

• I have played around with image generators, and quite liked the mosaic I created, and can see that there are a lot of fun things out there to spend time looking at, these will be fun to use with kids who may come to the new Youth program at our Library, if they are interseted.

LIBRARY THING

• I have explored library thing, and have a list of books that I catalogued on my Blog. I can see it is fun, and it is great that it includes Libaries Australia, because some of the material I was cataloguing is Australian material. I am not sure if I would spend much time using Library Thing, but I like how the Widget looks on my blog.

ROLLYO IS GOODO

• I like Rollyo! It seems a really useful tool. I found someones else's searchroll and they had a great list of Indigineous websites, and that saved time, so I added it to mine.

Week Five play week- Image generators etc.

These photos were taken on the Traditional Lands of the Kuku-Yalanji. I made this mosaic because I had photos on my computer of this part of Australia. I f you should want to find out where it is, then you could check out this website: http://www.decs.sa.gov.au/corporate/pages/default/aboriginalaustralia/

or even better

http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/aboriginal_studies_press/aboriginal_wall_map/map_page

From these site you can locate a map of Aboriginal Australia.

RSS and Gordon Bennett

Altered Body Print ( Shadow Figure Howling at the Moon ) Gordon Bennett 1994.

I attempted the RSS learning task again, and succeeded to register with Bloglines, and now have some State Library Feeds, Alia Feeds and a few other feeds too. I am not sure whether, I will really log in to Bloglines all that often and have a look at, but as other Yarra Library Bloggers have said, its good to know how to do it and what it is all about. I heard that new version of Outlook that Yarra will be getting in the future will have RSS capabilities, and this would be better than logging into another account. Also, a colleague of mine showed me her Google home page which had her email, feeds, and news all in one account, which seemed easier.

Anyway enough on RSS, because I think its been blogged on all our pages to within an inch of its life.

On Sunday I went to the Gordon Bennett Retrospective at the NGV ( Federation Square) It was just amazing, truly a wonderful exhibition, very intense, my mind was a bit blown afterwards, but it is powerful and amazing work. So another cultural recommendation, and its on until January, so it gives you a bot of time to go! Bennett is an Aboriginal Artist that challenges the official history of Australia, but also challenges notions of Aboriginality and identity. I think he actually challenges ideas about being and Aboriginal Artist, so I guess I should say he is a Contemporary Australian Artist.

Actually I wonder what Gordon Bennett would say about my posting his picture- which was one of my favorite, next to such an inane post about RSS. Hmm

PATRICK DODSON @ the Brunswick Town Hall OCTOBER 10th @ 7.30 pm

Pat Dodson to speak on future of Aboriginal Reconciliation, if anyone reads this post wants to come let me know!!!

Is reconciliation dead? What is the way ahead? What happens after the election?

Aboriginal leader and activist Patrick Dodson will address these and other key issues when he delivers the La Trobe University Centre for Dialogue Annual Lecture at the Brunswick Town Hall next Wednesday, 10 October, 2007.
He will speak on the topic ‘Reconciliation: Two Centuries On, Is Dialogue Enough?’
Often described as the ‘Father of the Reconciliation Movement’, Patrick Dodson is widely recognised for his involvement in the preservation and advancement of Indigenous rights and culture throughout Australia.
He has served as the Chairman of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (1991-1997), and often works as a consultant for industry, government and community groups on Indigenous affairs.
Patrick Dodson is also the founding Chairman for Lingiari Foundation, a leading research and development organisation that seeks for the advancement of Indigenous affairs.
La Trobe University’s Centre for Dialogue is supported by the Government of Victoria and educational, cultural and religious organisations in Australia and internationally.

The lecture, co-sponsored by Moreland City Council, will be held at 7.30 pm, Wednesday, 10 October, 2007, Brunswick Town Hall, 233 Sydney Road, Brunswick.