The 23rd Thing

Wow! I can't believe I did the whole thing. I think my favourite things are actually doing a blog and checking out the Web 2.0 Awards list. I can honestly say that I learned a lot! I am glad I had the opportunity to learn all the things that were in the program. One thing that I found problematic though is that it took a lot longer that 15 or 20 minutes to do each one. There's just too much stuff to check out. I found that I didn't have time to do it at work but I made sure I did it at home (the last few on vacation). I probably would do something like this again if it was something that I was interested in like this one. It helps that there is a prize at the end of it all too.

Audiobooks

Ah, audiobooks. The end is near. It has been a while since I have tried to investigate audiobooks. I know I was looking into it at one time, when I was looking into getting an mp3 player. I think I didn't rush into purchasing one because I didn't really see anything that I was interested in reading on one. I had to check out things kinda quickly today (running out of time). I will take another look when I have more time and can actually download it onto an mp3 player.

Audiopoding

I have been interested in podcasts ever since I got a cell phone that is also an mp3 player. I have yet to figure out how that works. Perhaps, now that I know a little more about this through the podcast.com community, I will figure it out. I had a little trouble finding a podcast that I thought was interesting. I did come up with one. It's called "Book Recommendations, Blog and Podcast: Books on the Nightstand". It looks and sounds interesting. I have added the feed to my bloglines account.

YouTube

I have seen YouTube videos before. I used to have some favourites on my Facebook page but they disappeared when Facebook went to the new Facebook. I do have a favourite from our own library. I think it's great.

Web 2.0 Tools

Well. I must admit, I spent a lot of time checking out some of these. I am very glad that some of the nominees have already been checked out in previous excercises. I could spend all day looking into some of these.
I am going to talk a little about .docstoc in this post. I found a really hilarious story in the humour section called "Lawyers should never ask a Mississippi grandma a question if they aren't prepared for the answer". I discovered a powerpoint display that had some pictures in it that I got in an email a while back. Beautiful pictures.
I'm not exactly sure how this would be useful in a library setting, but I did see some documents regarding libraries there. I suppose it would be useful if you wanted to see how others were doing things.
There is a lot of good stuff there. You should check it out. http://www.docstoc.com/

Zoho Writer and Google Docs

Wow. I had no idea that there were free word processing tools online. This will definitely help anyone who doesn’t have a word processor on their computer. I know they are expensive to buy. I tried to publish to my blog but it didn’t work.

PBwiki

I am not sure if I have this quite down pat. I did manage to add my blog to the list. It took a couple of tries though. Was not sure if I wanted to try another favourite list.
I am having a little trouble with certain punctuation in my blog. I canèt (can not) type a quotation mark at all. Not sure what the problem is but it makes it hard to say what I really want to.

Wikis

Wikis are great, but not entirely reliable because they can usually be edited by anyone. You do not need to know HTML to do it. I can see that they are being used to show information about library staff, book lists, intranet, conferences, etc. I think a wiki would be a great way to access staff manuals or book reviews.

Library 2.0

I think Library 2.0 shows how much the Library has changed and is changing. We need to go with the flow and change to be more user friendly. The users have changed and we have to too. I know I have seen a lot of change in the last 30 years and I am interested to see the future of Libraries.

Technorati

I was really hoping that I would be able to use Technorati to find some of the other blogs from our group. I had no luck. I tried searching post, blogs, and I even tried tags. I also tried searching for LTS to if that would come up with anything. I got a lot of stuff about Ubuntu, which I gather is a free community developed Linux-based operating system.
There is a lot to look at here. I am wondering if this might be an even better way to keep track of my feeds than Bloglines.

Del.icio.us

Now this is interesting. A new way to access and sort bookmarks. Nice idea this tagging. I like that I can check out other people's bookmarks also. There's some very interesting stuff out there.

Rollyo

I had a little trouble getting my mind around the Rollyo concept. I think it's a great idea, but I couldn't think of something that I would want to search for on many websites. Then I thought of Out-of-print books. That's something that I do all the time. Only problem with that is, I already have one site that searches many sites. I just use that. Oh well, I set one up anyway. Maybe it will be better.

http://rollyo.com/rcunning/out-of-print_search/

Library Thing

Library Thing is very interesting. I think it's kinda neat that I can review books before publication. Awesome.
I also like the idea that I can check my Library Thing catalogue on my cell phone. Sometimes I buy books that I already have at home. Of course, that would entail my getting every book I own on Library Thing. Hmmm.
Check out what I have already added.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/rcunning

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This is my nephew. I used PhotoNotes to make an Instant Polaroid.
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News Feeds

Okay, so I've tried some different ways of checking out newsfeeds. I've got a few in my Bloglines account, I've got a few in my iGoogle account, a few in My Yahoo! account, and I've even got a few bookmarked on Firefox. Not sure which way I prefer. I think I'll just play with the different ways for a while.

RSS

Oh wow! I found "scrapbooking" blogs. Some of them are famous scrapbooking people. People with TV shows and magazines. Wow!

I actually got involved with Bloglines a couple of years ago, but I didn't really get into it. Didn't know you could find scrapbooking stuff there. Wonder what else I can find?

http://www.bloglines.com/public/rcunning

Technology

Isn't it amazing how things have changed. I see people all around talking on a cell phone. Walking down a street, shopping, driving (yikes), even in a tanning bed (yes, really). I know I've become quite attached to my cell phone. I was at a friends house on the weekend and I thought everything was fine, until I realized my cell phone wasn't in my purse. After the initial panic, I thought to myself, that's ok, it's probably at home and (hopefully) nobody will be trying to reach me anyway. I was right, but I still felt a little uneasy going home on the back roads in the dark without it. I'm not sure I could give it up now that I've become accustomed to having it with me all the time. And to think it all started because I wanted to keep track of my teenaged daughter.

Spell with Flickr

Flickr

Wow! Flickr is interesting. I didn't realize it was free to use. Looks like a great place to store photos. I saw some interesting DBW photos and some beautiful UWO photos. Now if I can just figure out how to attach one to my blog!!

Testing it out.

Well. Here goes.

7 1/2 Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learners

Easiest - Habit 7 1/2 - Play. Self explanatory. LOL

Hardest - Habit 5 - Create your own learning toolbox. What??

Lets just do this.