week 8 Thing 21 Podcasts!

I subscribed to a podcast called Learn Spanish with Coffee Break Spanish! The short nature of podcasts and the amazing variety on podcast alley makes learning so easy. And I found what may be the ultimate podcast called Library Geeks! Definitely something I would look at each day to keep up with everything. I downloaded the Juice Podcast to listen to Fred's World and had a problem with it importing the feed. I am going to try another one.

Week 9 Thing 22

I downloaded the player for MyLibraryDV. The most valuable content, in my opinion, is the How To and Cooking areas. The only drawback I see is the inability to rewind and forward if you happen to be working on the topic at the same time. An awesome site is http://www.hulu.com/ which has old tv shows along with current movies and tv shows. Check that site out!

Library Thing

As a cataloger, I love Library Thing and have used it for awhile now. More importantly, I like how it allows me to access my library from whereever I am before I buy a duplicate of the same book. Not that such a thing would be bad....

Wordle

Things # 8 & 9

One less login name and password; that is like winning the lottery. I used Google Reader to set up my feeds for this exercise. Michael Sauers RSS class was informative and entertaining, as all of his are. In fact, the Nebraska Library Commission has just begun their Web 2.0 Thing exercise on the statewide level and he asked me if he can link to our O What a Geek site. So BEWARE - all eyes are upon us.
The condensed format of RSS Feeds and the ability to track all of my interests in one place makes RSS Feeds one of my favorite forms of technology. Still finding the time to read them is challenging, but I am getting better. I used Bloglines Search Tool to find and choose the RSS Feeds.
UnuSual RSS Feeds - the Shakesquill one I had signed up for because I had liked the day's poem looked promising until another poem on another day and it was quite graphic and explicit in content. That was a deleter - and hopefully before anyone saw it!

My prize

Oops, it appears I was supposed to mention the prize I would like in one of my blogs so I will do it now. The $40.00 gift card to Best Buy will be real "fly". Retro-coolness happening here.

#6 FLickR Mashup

The mashup I used to create the photo reel above is called a badge from www.flickriver.com. It was pretty simple to do after going back and forth between my flickr account, blog, and the flickriver website. The hardest part was choosing which photo set to include, making me realize that I need to post some more interesting photos that are Flickr-worthy.