Thing #20

Now YouTube is something I already knew about, for once. I think any teenager with access to the internet knows about YouTube. It's really useful. I've only uploaded something myself once, that I wanted to show a friend, but it made it possible. I can't e-mail someone a video of any sort of quality, so that was really handy.

As for how it could be used with libraries.. I'm not sure. Maybe a tour of the library for someone who hasn't come here and is looking online? Or even for someone who does come here, but doesn't quite understand the organization. I'm not sure.

So, this is a video I already knew about. Haha, it's just some silly thing someone made and then posted. I loved it, though, when I first saw it. Now sometimes when I think something is cool, and whoever I'm with has seen that video, I might exclaim, "Mathematical!" or "Rhombus!"

Thing #19

I, of course, zipped right to the book 2.0 tools. I found Reader, which is great. I registered. I wish I could read faster and be able to read more of these books I want to read.

So! Reader has all the things I like. I can add books, I can review books, I can look for books like what I like to read.. and so on. There's nothing to dislike about all that! Of course, it's not hugely popular yet, so some of my more obscure authors don't help me out. But that just takes time!

Thing #18

Wow! I had no idea these web-based applications were out there. Talk about handy! My laptop has WordPerfect, which I pretty much hate. I should try this instead. It's hard for me to see, at this point, the web-based replacing the desktop version. But maybe one day it will! Probably not too far away if it is going to happen.

There are really a lot of options available on that application. I was surprised. Basically everything you'd get in a desktop application is there. Anything I use anyway. That could be handy as well, if I'm writing something and switching between my latop and my desktop.. I wouldn't have to make sure it's in a shared folder and that the other computer is on. Nice!

Thing #17

I didn't realize you could have quite that much freedom with a wiki. I liked reading through the favorite books of many people.. I saw someone put down Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, which I've just started. Glad to see it's somebody's favorite! One of these days I will have to sit down and really explore these things. So little time these days, though!

Thing #16

I'm on a roll today!

I immediately went to the BookLoversWiki when I saw that on the list. Very nice. I looked through and found some books I like, or books I've wanted to check out, and saw what the reviews were. I really like it! I'll have to add that to my RSS feeds.

I'm not sure how things like that could be used within the library.. I suppose being able to have customer review type things, like Amazon, would be neat. Being able to get recommendations. Or see what other things people check out similar to what I'd be looking at. I'm usually looking at those things on Amazon anyway, as I look to see what the library has. It'd be nice to be able to have those resources on the library site.

Thing #15

In the article "Away from icebergs", the author mentions getting rid of the "just in case" collection. I'm not sure what he means by that exactly. All books? Or reference type books? If he meant reference type books, magazines, journals, and all that, I think I would be inclined to agree. When I do my research papers for college, I have been relying almost entirely upon the databases over print sources. When it comes to reading for pleasure, though, I want a book in my hand. I'm pretty sure there's technology out there for having books in some portable thing, but I don't have it, and I don't know if I would get it if there are books for free at the library where I don't need any technology. And I just like having actual books.

I liked all the second article was saying about librarians. Since I'm not a librarian yet, I don't really have the experience to disagree or not. But they all seem like good ideas. Especially about not latching onto anything that's new technology. New technology is definitely not always something very useful.

"To better bibliographic services" was a good article. I use those services a lot in college for my papers, and it is really frustrating sometimes trying to find what I want. It just overall sounds like some changes would simplify the databases a lot, and that would be very valuable to me.

Thing #14

Technorati is a very interesting tool! I don't know if I can keep track of all these tools. I need to be favoriting them at home, they're so handy.

Searching for Learning 2.0 in the blog directory seemed to be the most effective way to find the right things. At least, in this case. Searching for Learning 2.0 in blog posts got me nothing about it, but it did search for "learning" and "2.0" separately. I don't know if it works like google and putting quotes around the phrase would make it search for the two words together.

I've never heard of a few of the people that are in the most popular searches list. I was surprised to see Paris Hilton there. I thought she was old news by now, but maybe something has come out recently that I don't know about. 300 I wasn't surprised to see. I saw that myself while I was visiting my brother, and I really liked it.

Thing #12

Oops! I did this thing, but never posted my entry for it! So here I am a little late. I did a search engine that includes 3 art sites that I look at a lot. Art sites that let anyone submit their art of many different kinds. I search through these sometimes in search of drawings of particular things, so it'll be handy to search through them all at once.

Thing #13

I looked around on del.icio.us. Definitely seems like a good thing for me to start using. I have a laptop and a desktop computer, so having a site with all my bookmarks would be a smart idea. And I think it helps find more sites that you want through that search engine. I looked up "books" of course, ha, and found some good stuff. I think I'll have to set up an account sometime.