Thing #23

I'm finished and I did it! I'm just a little excited! It's hard to say what my favorite things were because most everything was new to me except YouTube. I am just still amazed at all the things that are out there. Doing these exercises really made me realize that I'm not dumb and that I can learn about new technology. A person just has to sit down and take the time to try things. And yes I would do this again but hopefully we can have it during months that are not so busy like January and February.

Thing #6

Flickr is huge, so many different things. I played the games Fastr and TagMan. They were pretty cool. The Flickr album maker was also pretty neat. Trulia was pretty awesome. I wonder if this is what the city uses to figure out how to lay out housing developments. Crimespotting reminded me of the maps they use on the television show "Numbers". I thought the best was Mappr. It reminded me of the projects we did on ourselves for the display case. I took a United States map and taped photos to it of some touristy thing we did in each state we visited. They use the computer and it looks much nicer than mine did. And you can put more than one photo on each state.

Thing #9

I would have to say my favorite search tool on this assignment was Topix.net. I love news. I can't get enough news. But boy could all these feeds be dangerous because I'd get hooked on reading them and I wouldn't accomplish anything else during the day. Syndic8.com and Technorati were interesting and relatively easy to use. I researched libraries and parenting. There were alot more interesting feeds for parenting than libraries.

Thing #8

I can't believe I forgot to blog about this one. I added my 10 newsfeeds then and I just added my new one I did today for Thing #21. Some of the 10 that I subscribed to were About Animals, Cats, Bloglines News, Books, Cooking for Engineers, New York Times and USA Today. I don't know where people find the time to read all this information. It's great but I could get seriously hooked and not do anything else.

Thing #22

Carolyn and I did this one together also. It was easy. We downloaded the Velveteen Rabbit and listened to some dramatic woman read it. She was a bit too dramatic for my taste. We also listened to a duo of father-daughter (I'm guessing) read The Night Before Christmas. Oh, is it cute! We tried Little Black Sambo but that didn't come up. It's really too bad that they can't do books after 1923. I think this is a great idea and that every book should be public domain.

Thing #21

Carolyn and I worked on this one together. The first thing I say for this assignment is "Wow". I had no idea how much is out there. My favorite was Podfeed.net. I created an account and found a Podcast I liked. I subscribed to the SoonerThought Podcast. Podcastalley.com was good and so was Podcast Directory but holy palooza was there some smut on Podcast Directory. There were alot of podcasts from different libraries. I could sit and listen all day if I had the time.

Thing #20

For my YouTube video I watched the "Oregon Lighthouses: the silent sentinels". Actually I watched about 20 different videos on lighthouses but this was my favorite. It's on Yaquina Head Lighthouse and Yaquina Bay Lighthouses in Oregon. We saw both of them on our trip in August 2006. I liked this video because it was professionally made. After looking at so many videos on YouTube I really do not care for the ones that people have made on their vacations. Some of them are really boring and drug out. I like to watch the videos that are informative and done in a tasteful manner. I like a narrator that has a nice calm voice and the background music fits what you are watching. I think it would be interesting to make a video of our library and put it on YouTube but it should be professionally done. Not just pictures of us smiling and waving at the camera.