Searching twitter

I searched for Fantasy Fiction on Twitter's search engine and came up with varied results including publicity for a publisher and various people talking about what they like or their wish to write fantasy fiction etc.
The same search on TweepSearch brought up heaps of people who had Fantasy fiction as one of their interests but also some sites such as @scifi_book which Tweets new science fiction and fantasy book releases on the day of their publication.
On the whole Twitter just annoys me because the information available is very brief and not particularly interesting, so no, I have not become a twitter addict (not that you were asking).

Twitter Accounts

I had a look at Meg Cabot's Twitter page as I have enjoyed some of her books. She appears to be usuing it for similar things as people use their Facebook- sharing various things, including a videoclip on Vampires which I didn't take the time to download.
Auckland City Council's is more informative with updated info about the Santa Parade, Auckland City Libraries extended loan perios over Christmas etc. It all looks useful information but is presumably available on their web page.
I don't feel inspired to join in the Twittering from what I have seen - looks very time consuming.

Creative Commons

The Creative Commons license is Attribution- Non-commercial 3.0 New Zealandwhich means you are free to share and Remix under the conditions named in the license type. These can be waived with permission from the copyright holder. Fair use and author's moral rights, publicity and privacy rights are not affected by the license.http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/4115677815/sizes/o/This image is labelled No known copyright restrictions. I couldn't see the CC License. I was searching for a picture of a laborador dog originally!

OpenID

I probably would use my Google account to open other accounts as it would be easier than the proliferation of login and password details which I have now, including the various accounts I opened for 23Things, many of which haven't been used since (I have to confess). I also have various accounts such as abebooks which use my home email address and others which use my work email. The only ones which use my Google account are the blogs so that's probably not the best use of Gmail and does mean I'm keeping track of quite a few passwords, even if I have used the same one for several accounts where security doesn't matter.

Online privacy and security

These resources provide a clear and easy to follow guide for someone who knows nothing about on-line security. OpenID sounds useful for those people who complaingn about all the passswords they have to remember although I haven't tried it.
Patrons should be advised not to use the password they use for banking or any other financial transactions. I would advise them that they can use the same password for Your Info and Pharos to save having to remember several passwords.