RSS Feeds

Today I set up 3 RSS feeds for my blog from:

PostSecret: a website displaying an ongoing community art project in which people write down and mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. No restrictions are made on the content of the secret; only that it must be completely truthful and must never have been spoken or revealed before. Selected postcards have been published in PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives (ISBN: 0060899190), published by Harper Collins/Regan Books in 2005. Second, third and fourth PostSecret books were also published in subsequent years.

Strange Maps: Who doesn’t like looking at maps? The website Strange Maps shows you all kinds of interesting - weird - bizarre - quirky maps out there.

World Wide Words: This website pays homage to the idiosyncracies and oddities of the English language, presenting weird and wonderful words, each with its own potted history and full meaning.


I like RSS feeds - they really are like getting a personalised newspaper delivered, covering specially selected topics I'm interested in. Obviously, it would be great to harness RSS feeds for BCC libraries. There are so many great library blogs out there that staff could be getting updates from, to learn from and for professional development.

A beautiful song...

Here's a beautiful song I've been listening to a lot lately, a ukelele version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" by a Hawaiian singer called Israel Kamakawiwoʻole...

Flickr images I like...

I came across this photo on Flickr and loved it. I immediately wished I could be the deer in the forest - what a peaceful place to live... (If you want to search for this picture on Flickr, it's called "Meeting the Pregnant Princess of the Forest" by Ben... o.k., so the title's bad, but the picture's so good!)