To a cetain extent that is what the visual tour is entended to do, to try and give a new staff member a visual guide to the library, though I have to say I have had better editing tools to get the picture & text sync'd. I uploaded the pictures to Flickr, but I never seemed to get them to load properly from there.
I had a look at Mosaicr and Mapr, which I found pretty useless really. Why I would want to turn a picture into a mosaic I can't imagine, what purpose does it serve? Mapr could be good if you can upload your own maps, and then add graphics on top of the map, but I'm pretty sure photoshop can do the job better if that was your desire. It would be a good floorplan design tool if you could insert photos of furnishings into a blueprint for fitout purposes. On the other hand, the architects fittings codes work well anyway!
So this brings me to the main point, to what purpose is some technology? Blogging in particular seems to be the re-iteration or linkage of other net published material, interspersed with personal opinions like this one. Perhaps there are some useful collections of materials and thought, but they seem few and far between.
So whilst there is a fun factor here, one has to ask how useful it really is? Things like Feeds just come through so fast it is more glimpse technology than any serious research tool. Generally I'd regard Forum pages as a better place for discourse and the sharing and critique of ideas. Blogs seems kind of shallow..
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I am also a photshop fan and tend to use it whenever I need to manipulate photos, however for those who don't have access to program such as this; this type of web based program is good.
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