Audio/Video - Podcasting

I've always been interested in Podcasting but never took the time to do it.
I looked at all three podcast directories and found Podcast.net easier for me.

Not to sure how to find things yet. The only thing I found that I was
interested in was in iTunes.It was for people who like to knit and read
books but don't have time to do both. It's called Craftlit.

http://craftlit.blogspot.com/

I could see the library using it for book talks and letting people
know what programs are going on.

Audio/Video-Music and other Audio

I've have an ipod so I've done itunes before and love it. I didn't know that there were so many other music websites out there, should have known! After going through these websites I liked IMEEM the best for videos. I really like watching music videos, so this one was fun.
I haven't done and podcast downloading yet but will give it a try one of these days.
Some things that I don't like about these websites are you always have to sign up just to look around.
I'm not sure about using it in the library except I like watching the One Minute Critic on book talks, I'm sure you could do more with that.
I hope CDs are not dead but mp3 players are very popular!

Online Applications/Tools: Google Docs

I tried out Google Docs. I typed a document then sent it to my FVRL email.

I then opened my email, did some changes to the document, saved it

and sure enough it was on my original document. Pretty amazing!

The only draw back I could see was, I sent it to my husband but he

didn't have a g-mail account so he couldn't add to it.

I think Wikis are easier in that regard.

Cool Stuff

I played around with Wordshoot, Yahoo Answers and Scrabulous. I thought some of the games on Wordshoot were fun to play. Some of the other websites you had to register to get in and I didn't feel like registering to anything right now. I've checked out other people's MySpace and some are really cool. It's amazing what's out there.

Wikis

I didn't know what a wiki was so this was very helpful. I went to several different websites and thought they were targeted mostly to older and educated people. I think its a great way for companies to collaborate on projects that a lot of people need to work on. The FVRL Wikis were fun to look at. I don't think I would like to add or change anything on other peoples wiki but you never know. I think I'll try it when my family goes camping and we need to decide on who brings what. This could be fun!

Goodreads and LibraryThing

I created an account with the
Goodreads website. http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/986183

I decided on Goodreads over LibraryThing because of the way it looked and it was easier to use.

Both of these websites are fun because you can see what other people have to say about the books they've read. Now I can keep track of the "soooooo" many books I want to read. You can even join a book group like the "One Minute Critic" book group!

Technorati

This website confused me. I'm not sure why you would want to keep track of all the blogs out there but I guess someone does. I felt like I was lost and didn't know what I was looking for.

When I typed in learning 2.0 it seemed to take me to the same place so maybe I wasn't doing it right. I think I'll move on to the next step.

Del.icio.us

I think del.icio.us is great. I first heard about this website from taking a class at FVRL but didn't take the time to start my own del.icio.us account. Now that I have an account and have spent some time with it I really like it. I can now save my favorite bookmarks to del.icio.us and have them where ever I go.

I enjoyed watching the One Minute Critic in the isdesk account. What a fun and great way to find out about books. Sam was great! I'll have to try a Peter Lovesey book!