week 9 #21

Went to yahoo, but had trouble finding anything interesting about libraries. When I did find something, the recording didn't make sense as it refered to a picture, so I still had to go to the accompanying print article to see the picture. So I wound up reading the info anyway. then I went to podcastalley.com which was more user friendly that yahoo's audio selections, and I did find some library podcasts. Did an RSS feed through bloglines to "uncontrolled vocabulary" which seems to be a weekly call in show on library topics. Have to say, it was pretty boring and I was most unimpressed. Can see using this for training purposes, like attending a podcast for a conference that I can't attend in person.

week 9 #20

I like youtube because it's fun, and I like the way they organize the videos. I looked at videos on how to do push-ups, as I was pretty sure that I was not doing them correctly in my home workouts. Found a couple that were helpful. In library web-sites, videos could be used to publicize events, and programs, to catch people's interest, but of course, the problem of bandwidth is always there.

week 9 #19

Sample doc: Thanksgiving: wet and rainy, moving day for my daughter, dust & pet hair, family aggravations, good food, being together, good friends, too much cigarette smoke!

Thoughts: can see some uses for this, like the alternative to microsoft office.

week 8 #18

poked around in myspace, and facebook. My space does have more entertainment stuff but my daughter has a facebook account. If I was to do anything with this, I'd probably get on yahoo 360 as I already have a yahoo account. Still prefer face to face.

week 7 #17

There's a lot of things I love about technology: being able to call for help on my cell phone when I have car trouble., being able to instant message my daughter, e-mail. I think we have to watch out for getting too much technology, like when I had a answering machine, a voice mail account, etc. and I had three things to check whenever I wanted to see if someone was trying to reach me. We have to make sure the technology works for us, and doesn't create more work for us.