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Monday, August 6, 2007

Precious picture

On Saturday August 4, 2007, Grammy turned 97 years old. Here is the Oldest and the Youngest in our family....Grammy (Bonnie Arnold) and Elijah Brooks, 5 years old. Great picture!

Podcasts seem sort of random. I listened to part of an interview with Jason Statham, who is one sexy man! That was on the Yahoo Podcast site. There were a lot of links that didn't go anywhere - kept telling me it couldn't find it. That didn't impress me, and in fact frustrated me because I don't really know what I'm doing half the time and then when I follow the directions I'm given and it still doesn't work...AUGH!!!

Then I checked out Podcast.net but it seemed like everything I tried to play/listen to I got a box that said "Click to run an ActiveX control on this webpage". ???? I don't know what that means. Then it kept wanting me to restore MIME type associations to QuickTime...I don't know what that means either. I didn't know if it was safe to do that or not, so I told it NO. When I finally got to the actual point that it would play something, it just kept saying "rockin'pop-cast" and "rockin'pop-cast.come" over and over. That didn't impress me either. I must be doing SOMETHING wrong.

I also went to Podcast Alley -- had trouble locating anything I actually searched for. I typed in Janet Evanovich (one of my favorite authors) and got ten hits...none of which had anything - and I mean ANYTHING -- to do with Janet Evanovich. Nothing. Sooo....either I'm doing something completely wrong, or it's just not all that easy to use. At least for us technologically slow people.

#20 Cat Bloopers - YouTube

I chose this video because the first time I saw it, I laughed until tears streamed down my face! Those cats just crack me up!!!

I love YouTube - I think there is a lot of very funny stuff on there. I find a lot of garbage too, and I wish there was a way to isolate the stupid stuff, but that would be censorship, I suppose. But anytime someone sends me a funny video, more often than not it has come from YouTube.

I think YouTube would be a useful component if you could do tutorials or self-guided tours of the library -- is that an option??

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

#19

I went to the "short list" and found Facebook. I love Facebook, so I'm gonna write about it. Facebook is a social network that you can just "play" with your friends online. Seems like nearly everyone I know is on Facebook, so of course it definitely has a place in a library setting, but probably more as a use for communication than anything else. I keep up with former staff and student employees once they are gone from here. It's also a good way to contact students when email just isn't doing the trick. They are on Facebook more than they check email anyway, most of the time. It is just FUN and it makes you feel good. Aside from the playful nature of Facebook, some of the useful features include an email feature, a huge variety of applications that can be fun or educational, and it also gives you the opportunity to seek out "Groups" that you can join. The Groups tend to be forums based around a specific topic. You can keep up with things that interest you. This feature might be useful in a library setting.

#18

So I worked hard in Zoho writer, followed all the directions and tried to create this document to post to my blog:

This is my writer.zoho.com document that I'm experimenting with. I have already practiced sharing a "test document" with Mark Mace...well...I received his, and I don't know if he ever received mine or not. ???
Anyway....here it is. This is pretty cool actually! Except it's not posting to the blog, even though it says it is. So....it WOULD BE pretty cool...if it worked. Hmmmm.

So, it never would post...and I did everything right, I'm fairly sure. It even told me on the site that it had posted. Now I feel like it was a big waste of time. That's disappointing.