#46 Updates

This Thing is an update on the sites we've visited in Learning 2.0 and 2.1, knowing that anything on the Internet can change overnight, (how true - a number of these Things have been a victim of these changes) it listed some developments with Blogger, flickr, RSS, LibraryThing, and others. When I checked it out I found Flickr Places, (which uses geotagged photos to create a page for just about anywhere, and suggested trying something exotic like Vanuatu) which I hadn’t checked out previously. Here are a couple of the Vanuatu flickr places. Unfortunately not as many people have found or added to it as with GoogleMaps which does a similar job.

The exercise was to check up on your favourites sites and see if there have been any changes.
So I went to Del.icio.us, searched on lighthouses and this was the first match Abandoned Russian Polar Nuclear Lighthouses, Wow, of course I clicked on it.
Russian Northern coast is a vast territory inside the Polar Circle. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union decided to build a chain of lighthouses to guide ships around the uninhabited shores. They had to be fully autonomous, so Soviet engineers installed small lightweight atomic reactors to power up these structures. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the unattended automatic lighthouses did it job for some time, but after time they collapsed, mostly as a result of looters hunting for metals like copper and other stuff which were performed by the looters. Disregarding the “Radioactive Danger” signs they broke in and destroyed the equipment and reactors causing all the structures to become radioactively polluted.

I also looked up LibraryThing's Groups, a couple of interesting ones -Librarians who LibraryThing (5734 members) a post of which was what else to recommend to "Twilight" fans, of course it was unnecessary to even use the words Stephenine Meyer in the question. It also linked via a "Fires in Australia" post and books for the victims to Australian LibraryThingers (542 members).