the end, so sad.

My favorites were: Flickr, YouTube, and eaudiobooks. I can see myself using these for fun and on the job.

I enjoyed just learning about all the things. I know I won't use most of them, but when someone comes up and mentions RSS , blogs, or Technorati I'll know what the heck they are talking about. A good learning experience!

I would choose to participate again in something like this. It was a fun way to learn new things out there in the techie world. My office-mates all chatted about a lot of the things and we all shared our ideas even before we entered them into our blogs!

Thank you for this!!!!!

eaudiobooks

I browsed the NetLibrary page and was impressed. I knew there was a lot to choose from, but there is even more now than the last time I checked. I love the idea of downloading a book. For me, I wouldn't have the opportunity to use it very often and I of course also still love the idea of curling up with a book in hand.
The browse feature is wonderful as well as seeing what is new. 158 Young Adult Fiction titles. That is great!!!
I tease the kids when I show them the books on CD and/or explain about the eaudiobooks that they are great to listen to while on a car ride or while cleaning your room!!! Not very funny, I know.

podcast

I like the idea of youtube over a podcast. After all the fun on YouTube, podcasts seem to be a sort of let down. :(
I compared Podcast.net and Podcastalley and I prefered Podcastalley. I did the same search on both - teen authors, and I liked the presentation of the results on Podcastalley. I also thought the main page was more engaging and visually exciting.

YouTube

I have always found Youtube fun. I've seen movie trailers, old commercials, new commercials, and even a funny Harry Potter skit that had everyone in the office laughing!!http://youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1XIm6q4r4


I can see having fun with this with respect to advertising for the library. I could make a video for teens about the "Totally Tubeular Teen Librarian". Who knows?????

Web 2.0 Awards

First of all, it was great to have a list like this to browse through. For someone like me who doesn't necessarily surf the web, having just the "top picks" to look at is great. One site I liked was http://www.etsy.com/ It focuses on buying and selling only handmade items, which is a wonderful focus to the site.



I also thought http://www.pandora.com/ is a really cool site. How fun to just play and get suggestions of new songs. I can see my husband (the music freak) getting adicted to this. That is if he hasn't already!!

Zoho

Well I played with Zoho a bit and the different features it has. I can see how it would be great to be able to access your work from any computer and not just the one at your desk.

PBWiki

That was pretty neat. It was fun reading everyone's comments and it wasn't too overwhelming. If there were pages and pages of comments, that would be too much for me. The formatting was a bit off and that made certain sections more difficult to follow. I added comments in fave vacation spot and fave TV show.

Wikis

Hmmm.... another intersting advance in technology. I can certainly see how it would be useful for my position - sharing program ideas, what worked/what didn't, taking a look at how other libraries approached a similar idea. The catch - everyone needs to be involved and people need to take the time to make use of the page. Otherwise it just sits there with no input from anyone. The YS wiki that was created is a wonderful idea, but not much has been added yet. Are people afraid? Hesitant for some reason? No time? I think with a bit more encouragement and time, it will end up chock full of information. We maybe just need to change the look - new colors, fonts... Jazz it up a bit.

On Library 2.0 and Web 2.0

I first read the article Away from Icebergs and agreed with most of what the author said. That in order to stay "popular" in the eyes of our patrons, we need to adapt and change along with the changing technology. I think we have done a great job with that. But being a Youth Services librarian and helping those kids who are 2-5 years of age who hardly know what downloading means, reaffirms why I became a librarian - to help our patrons using books and reading. Which leads into the other article - Into a New World of Librarianship. For the age range of children I mentioned before, books will always be the priority, not blogs and wikis (although librarians can certainly use these tools to find new titles, new pathfinders, etc). So, it is an exciting time for change in libraries, but some things will thankfully always stay the same - a child having a book in his/her hand.

Technorati

My, there are a lot of people who have things to say about Sanjaya!! For me, it was the most interesting to check the "top searches". I also went to google and typed in "Sanjaya blog" and "Sanjay blog posts" and got many blogs as well. Including the link to technorati's list of Sanjaya blogs.
I feel like I have been repeating myself about many of the things we have been learning. It is wonderful to learn and I feel much more knowledgeable about what is "out there" on the web. But, these things are not useful to me. I can't give up what little time I spend with my family to search the web and use these tools.

Rollyo and Delicious

Interesting idea and it was fun to look at Debra Messings roll. I used my passion in life to create my roll - shopping! I would not use it in my personal life and I do see how it can be helpful for research or reference help. If you have millions of questions on American Indians, create a roll for that. Or science fair projects. But, we are trying to encourage the students to use our databases for research and you can choose a cross database search from the list alphabetically and/or by category. So, shouldn't we use that feature? I feel the same way toward Del.icou.us. There are probably only 3 sites that I religiously check. That is not enough to set up a permanent account in either of these. Although, the idea is great (especially being able to access it from anywhere), it wouldn't work for me. It was fun checking the popular and recent tags posted. I found a weird little cartoon with Harry Potter in it!! :)

Time to Catalog! NOT!

Libary thing is a fun little web site. I will not, and do not have the time to use this as it is intended. I also used the tag feature for little notes instead of "cataloging" purposes.
I liked the Unsuggester - neat!
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=chrisleary

Generate this!

That was fun. There are a lot of "crude" generator tricks out there.

Again, all in the name of work!

RSS (things 8 & 9)

Wow! Information overload!!!!
Positives : I learned what RSS means. I have seen and read some funny things after subscribing to the "Got Laughs" feed and got to call it "work". Found out QVC has a feed.
Not so positives: In my personal life, I do not spend a lot of time searching the web. I watch the 11:00 news and that is my news for the day. I don't visit many websites. So, why would I need all this information every day? How would I use this technology as a Youth Services Librarian? Anyone got ideas they can share with me?

Blog about technology

Well.... there are two ways I look at it.
First - yippee, bravo, and cool - I get to email my sisters who are in other states in the middle of the night or early morning. I can have 3 way conference calls with my sisters. I can download music from itunes that reminds me of a different time with a different set of friends (get out of my life why don't you babe..oh, oh, oh. Cause you don't really love me. You just keep me hanging on....) :)

Second - I consider myself a technology widow on most days. What does my husband's computer have that I don't have. A mouse? So what!! So, there are lots of disadvantages to technology too. And for the people who just cannot LIVE without their cell phones, I always think of what my dad said when we tried to get him to buy one - "Why would I want your mom to be able to call me at anytime?" He now has one, but doesn't use it. And people talking on their phones during storytimes. Come on, when did that become okay to do?
I'll stop now.

Lovely picture I found using color match. But again, why would I use this tool? It was very nice looking at lots photos that matched the shade of blue I chose. But?.......

Flickr- the tools are fun (the billboard and trading card for example). For personal use, the rest of Flickr doesn't seem relevant to me. I think it is more beneficial to photographers and artists and to people who want to share photos with other family members. So, overall not too impressed with Flickr.