Poddy Casts....

I found the podcast directories overwhelmingly American again - as I have found with a lot of the other "Things". I added LibVibe to my Bloglines - which has headlines of Library News from America - it would be good to have something like this for Australia - or Victoria...
I spent time on the ABC website listening to podcasts - which is something I have been meaning to do and haven't got around to. One thing I like about podcasts is you can have them on in the background and continue working!
Again - in a Library field, my comments are similar to my comments about You Tube - book reviews, librarian comments - anything like that on a library website could work well...

Marley on You Tube

I am familiar with You Tube and have looked at it on several occasions to find certain things that I am interested in. I find there are a lot of apalling things on there - just absolutely not worth the time - but if you know what you want, the clips can be worthwhile and for example can give action to something you are reading.

I am just in the middle of reading Marley and me by John Grogan, and it had me laughing out loud in places - which I don't often do when I read... I am now approaching the end and feel I will be shortly sobbing - so I was pleased to find some video footage of Marley on You Tube. I did find a brief bit of him at home with one of John's children in an interview with John Grogan as well, but the one I have put here is of when Marley was a film star. It is mentioned in the book that he played the family dog in a film called "The Last Home Run" that went straight to video - so here are Marley's scenes from that film.




In a Library situation - book reviews or author interviews (from You Tube) could be put onto the library's webpage - and even local librarians commenting on new items or events could be uploaded - or a snippet of bookclubs or storytime would promote the library and books and put them out there for people in an interesting way.

So much stuff out there!

I like the idea of One Sentence (http://www.onesentence.org/) - 2nd place winner in Fun Stuff - but found most of the one sentences very ornery. I use Google Maps a lot with great success - so was interested to see that it had 1st place in Mapping. Looked at Wayfaring - which was 2nd place in Mapping - but found in more clumsy than Google Maps maybe just cos I'm more used to Google Maps. Had a quick look @ Frappr (3rd in Mapping) - but seemed way to social for me at this point in time.... Got distracted and had to play Guess the Google (grant.robinson.name/projects/guess-the-google) 3rd place under Games - which was fun but was a bit disappointed they didn't tell you the answer for the ones you got incorrect.
Ran out of time to look at any more so didn't find any Library related stuff - but may come back - Lulu looked interesting...

Zoho, Zoho it's off to blog I go!

There is a huge advantage to having your documents online and being able to either work on them from various locations without transporting them (whether via e-mail, CD or memory stick), or to share them with colleagues who need access to the same document. This has already happened at work with a Google Spreadsheet being shared among staff to record in one location our donation figures from across the corporation's branches. I can see the value of this in other areas such as periodicals as well. I found the toolbars rather limiting at first - but then a lot of what I work with contains images or tables and importing these into Zoho from already existing documents didn't work that well - but there are always ways around these things...

Ochre Oasis

 

 

 

OCHRE OASIS.doc

 

I can definitely see the advantage of having documents online

and being able to work with them from various locations or sharing

them with other people who need access to the same document!

 

Sandy Wiki

I felt that the PBWiki gave good hands on experience as to what Wikis are all about and enabled me to get a feel on how to actually use and be able to edit one.

Wiktastic!

I think Wikis are great - in a controlled environment such as our library service they could be of extreme value in communication in general or in working on a special project, or for subject / autor lists. As we have staff in a number of different locations - seperated by considerable distance in some cases - to have a central document that can be revised and /or edited by anyone on the working party would be a bonus. I also feel that as we would generally be all working towards the same end in this we shouldn't suffer from many "edit wars" and have to go to arbitration as must be the case in bigger Wikis... (I also thought the Commoncraft video explained Wikis in a very clear and concise way...)