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.