Thing 21 Podcasts

These audio or video feeds are great because no iPod or MP3 player is needed to access them. The Podcast.net directory conducted a really good search on "tea", yielding 11 sites. My favorite was 122 episodes of Tea Lover's Room Teacast. These were also sites located in Japan and Formosa. Some sites were bands and chat groups. The cutest title was"Tboy's Tea Time" with disco and ambient music. This directory was easy to use with good results.
Yahoo Podcasts search for "book review" had many sites, but one good one was the News Hour with Jim Lerner. This discussed the cutbacks in book reviews by newspapers because of the poor economy. This site had good links.
MERLIN podcasting learning link lists how libraries are using podcasts as stories for kids, library news, public programs and staff training.

Thing 20 Activity #1 :You Tube

You Tube, Yahoo Videos and Google Videos all are video sites. I used You Tube to search "tea production" and found 7 pages of videos listed. The first one listed was the best-5 star rating and detailing the tea production in Sri Lanka. It has been up for 9 months and has 459 viewers. Other sites searched just "tea" and came up with Lipton commercials, Broadway productions, etc. It was fun to see real tea production and to view the Lipton commercials. I like the ability to search for almost anything. I dislike the poor quality of most videos I viewed.

Thing 19 Sites from Web 2.0 Awards List

This is amazing-over 200 Web2.0 sites in 41 categories. Category of books had two sites-biblio.co
for out of print books and librarything.com for what to read next and lots more. My exploration of library thing revealed such features as good recommendations on what to read next as well as "unsuggestions" of books I would not like. I created a catalog of books by list and by cover art, by author, title subject and rating. Site encourages tags and blogs. I disliked the persuasive language they used to attempt to get users to post a profile and to join or form groups.
In a library setting, this could to useful to book discussion groups.

Thing 18 Zoho Writer and Google Docs

Both of these software productivity tools were easy to log into and to use.

Thing 16 Creative Wikis

I was glad to have it spelled out that library 2.0 is a term used to describe application of new web 2.o technology in a library setting. Finally, a clear definition of library 2.0.What a relief that old copyright laws are legally being bypassed by new creative commons licences. Librarians no longer need one webmaster; all can contribute to the web page. Wikis are great to use as library subject guides, to annotate the catalog and for collaborative projects.
Ideal as community or convention guides, wikis are useful as public service announcements.

Thing 15 Perspectives on Web2.0, Library 2.0

It's my understanding that these terms can be used to describe the new technology that keeps people constantly in touch and connected . These technologies are based on concepts that emphasize constant change and reworking. Barriers to libraries staying connected with their customer could be focusing too much on the print collection, failing to teach new technology to library users and not making these services easily available.

Thing 14 Technorati

A keyword search search had no surprises because there were so many tags. It was also no surprise that popular blogs were about making money online, learning breaking news and new developments in libraries.

Thing 13 Del.icio.us

Signing up for a del.icio.us account was not as complicated as for other accounts. Del.icio.us willl help me bookmark web pages used frequently for research for book discussions.

Thing 12 Rollyo

This was a good review of search engines.

Thing 11

This was fun and interesting. Learned about tags.






http://www.librarything.com/catalog/tealady5643

tealady's blog

Thing 10

Creating an animated gif was fun. I could spend hours playing with this. I used "meez" to create an image of daughter Cathy, a photographer living in L.A.

Thing 9

Topix was excellent for local Cooksville news. and could supplement local newspapers. Technorati had most specific topics. It's a good thing to have Merlin.

Thing 8

This was difficult to do, but the results should be helpful. Now I'll have more resources for reviewing books for book discussions I lead for the Glenwood library. The book review sources I subscribed to should give me lots of new ideas for selecting titles and for discussions.