#21: Podcast

Well, managed to get into these sites at home. Podcasts are an interesting concept and located one which was quite interesting :http://www.deliberatenoise.com/rss/bookfeed.xml. I have added this to my bloglines account. It is a small site at present, and should be interesting to see how it develops. perhaps I will be able to access it via bloglines at work and it won't be blocked. With dialup connection it does take a long time to actually be able to listen to anything in entirety

Catchup - social networking

The articles on these networks were most interesting, especially who uses what sites and why. I belong to Old Friends site but have had no need or wish to belong to Beebo, or Facebook at present. I expect if I was overseas or my family was, then i would probably use Facebook.

Week 9: # 22

Project Gutenburg - ebooks. Not sure what I expected but I found this site to be very "worthy". maybe I just read the wrong types of books which are not published as ebooks. Anyway, I had difficulty finding any of my favourite authors. The ability to have the books published in different languages is quite extensive. For the dedicated reader after classics this would be great. Then different ways of downloading were quite interesting, butyou wouldn't want to be downloading with a dialup connection! Don't think I would visit this site again.

Week 9 ; #21

Haaving a bit of difficulty with this exercise through blocked sites so will come back to it.

Week 9 : # 20

At home dialup is very slow but I managed to view Youtube. Having seen the original "Conan the Barbarian" several times years ago, I thought "Conan the Librarian" sounded interesting. Very funny! (macbre but funny). Our borrowers with overdue books don't know how lucky they are!
I could see that this video uisage could be good in a large library to show locations to borrowers, especially if the library consisted of several floors.
It would also be really good for showing processes, or "how to" on certain machines (RFID?). Short, succint information which holds your interest.

No. 20 -Youtube

Grrr. all sites blocked so will have to try at home or early in the morning on the Learn.net. very frustrating having sites blocked when you have time to do some searching.

No. 19 :Week 8

Well, this was quite interesting. I went into the short list and chose the category "books'. - and then Lulu. Did you know you could create your own book and have it published? what a special present for recipes etc that you could give your kids with their favourites in. The directions to doing this were really easy to follow with illustrations, text etc. The price is given for having this published - and although done in the States, I am sure you could get it done. Neat Christmas present? but not this Christmas!