Alternative Blogging

Well I read all about Twitter and even opened up an account but I just don't like it. I would rather pick up the phone to talk to someone. I found Twitter to be very slow that is when I was able to get into it because the times I tried it was down most of it. Sometimes I feel with all the Emails and blogging we are getting so impersonal in our lives and not talking face to face anymore.

I also created a Tumblr account. It was okay but I probably would never use it. I did lurk around a bit but it did not interest me.

Audio/Video

I had fun looking around at all the video sharing websites and I agree it can be addictive. I picked out a video on Genealogy because that is where my interest is. I found so many videos discussing genealogy that I will have to go back to these websites at a different time and look at my leisure when I am at home. I will definitely add them to my del.icio.us account. I like the idea of adding videos to websites and I think having some on the library website would make it more interesting.

Podcasting

I tried all 3 Podcast directories. Podcast.net would not load I kept getting a server not found message. Podcastalley.com was okay but they wanted me to download some software in order to listen. I did like yahoo Podcasts because I did not have to download anything.
I checked several library sites and most of the ones I found were the reading of childrens books.
I did like www.wku.edu/library/podcast/index.html and also www.loc.gov/podcasts/ I also found some interesting ones for personal interests that I have.
I found podcasts a good idea but unless you have an ipod or mp3 player that you can download to I think it is somwhat inconvient because then you are tied to your computer.

Item 19 Music and Other Audio

I had fun with this although I did feel a little guilty doing this at work. I tried last.fm, Pandora and Imeem. I liked last.fm best I felt it was easy to move around in, Pandora I thought was just too busy and confusing.
I also check out Internet Archives which I really liked. I think I need to get myself an MP3 player now because I did see several audio books that I would like to download. I also like the idea that they had some very old books that were digitalized some that would be great for history or genealogy purposes.
I looked at Mango Languages also which I think I would like to use to brush up on my Spanish.
I could see were libraries could use alot of these sites especially for reference. And no I don't think CD's are dead yet.

Item 18: Google Docs

Okay I watched the common Craft Video "Google Docs in Plain English", I thought that it was very informative I also took the "Quick Tour" to find out more. I made a little presentation which was fun doing I tried to put it on my blog as a page element but my presentation was too wide so it wouldn't fit, I looked but could not find how to make it fit so here is my link http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dgfbd6j8_6hp2phqfb

I hope you enjoy. Overall I did have fun with the google Docs but some areas I found were confusing.

Cool Stuff

I had fun with the cool stuff. I thought that the blog readability test was okay. I did not care for the sketchcast. I really like scrabulous and word shoot. On scrabulous I played the computer and lost, so then I played by myself it really made you think which is hard to do at the end of the day. Word Shoot you had to be fast. I did look at the Yahoo answers but I did not try it. All in all I had great time with the cool stuff.

Wikis Wikis

What I learned about Wikis is that they let multiple users add, remove and edit content and you don't need to understand HTML. My concern would be the accuracy of some of the wikis, can you really trust the content as being true. Over all I like the idea of them I like the example they gave in video about the friends going on a hiking/camping trip, I think it would be great to use if your planning a family reunion and you have people all over the country that you need input from. I liked Wikipedia I know my daughter uses this one alot. I have never used a Wiki before but now that I am more familiar with them I will be checking them out and maybe find one that I can put information on myself.