Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Thing 23, The End.

Yay I made it. I learned a lot. I shared flickr with my sister, who used it for a presentation for school. I made some friends on Twitter. I blogged. I never did make an avatar, but maybe one of these days I will. I put my favorites in Del.icio.us, but I'll probably never go back and look at them. All in all, I think this was an excellent way to spend time learning about the new technology that is developing around me.

Thing 22, MOLDI

Moldi has great stuff. I have downloaded many things at home. Every student reading the classics needs to know about this. There are tons of audio books for our steady stream of people who listen to their books. I think it is the future of audio and video services. Someday we won't buy CDs and DVDs. We will offer download service from our website.

Thing 21, Podcast searches

I tried the podcast searches listed on the learn and play blog: podfeed.net, Podcastalley.com, Google Podcast Directory. I had a good time nosing around and seeing what I found if I clicked here or there. I ended up finding very interesting stuff. I didn't listen to any of it, but it looked good by the description. The thing about the directories is that they lead you through them to other pages which also lead you through to other pages and so on. I could do this for days.

Monday, November 10, 2008

Thing 20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7BsGBpMD2w

Great video. I can't see myself ever posting a video on youtube, but I certainly enjoy watching them.

Thing #19 CML's toobox

I found worldcat.org at the bottom of the cml toolbox. I've heard about this, but never really looked at it. It might be just amazing. Is this the entire content of Worldcat? It is a much more attractive format. The ability to make lists and the blog are nice. Either I'm missing something or I don't have to go back to the old interface any more.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Thing 19 Cml's web 2.0 tools

My experience with CML's tools has been really positive. People love the ability to see new items in the drop-down menu. The search box is handy. Also, the extra tools listed are all handy. The best thing for me was the free worldcat through google. It's just amazing.

Web 2.0

Thanks to the web 2.0 awards, I found a seriously fun site called http://colorblender.com Oh, it is fun, fun, fun. And I have been wanting to paint some of the rooms in my house, so this is the perfect site to try. I wonder if I can find a web 2.0 site that will help me get all of the furniture into the middle of the room so I can paint the walls. My experience with this site is pure joy. My other experiences with web 2.0 have been good also. I used to play games on facebook.com. I even convinced my 80 year old great aunt to sign up so we could play scrabble. I like all of this stuff, but very little of it can be used for work. Perhaps knowledge of it will help me in my career. I suppose that it the point of learn and play.