Feedback

Goodness me ! What a journey it has been ! ! At times incredibly frustrating and at others rewarding and no I don't just mean the incentive of the player coming my way. There have been moments of complete ludditeness, but more of the "Oh I can do that ! variety.

The RSS's (shades of the terrors of the Princess Bride were close to my mind during this exercise) were not my favourite, but then I really got to grips with You Tube and then adding my clip to my blog.

My favourites though had to be Bloglines and Image Generator. Will these be useful in my work, who knows, probably not, but I got huge feeling of accomplishment in finding out that I was capable of getting on a computer and setting up my own Blog, which I will continue to use.

As a confidence and knowledge boosting programme I have definitely benefited in my own way.

Thanks for the opportunity.

Podcast part Two

Have finally managed to track one down. Went thru podast in Bloglines, but got lost. Sigh.
Went back to Pod alley and found my Podcast. I am now a subscribing member of 'All about Heroes' in my Bloglines account. Whew ! ! !

Now off to the Feedback segment.

Hooray ! !

Net Library

Ooh this was fun, and yes I did set up an account. I tried searching for a number of my favourite authors, but to no avail. So then I looked up on what we had in our elibrary and searched from there.
As a friend of mine is working on an audition for Twelfth Night I was able to look that up and see two Cliff Notes texts as well as the full text by Shakespeare. 'Tis a shame that the printing is soo small, as for me it was hard to read, and then it took a while to click that you didn't move the pages using the arrows, but by using the Next button.
Still it was amzing to see the array of books that we have in that system. Tried to read a Berenstein Bears Picture book, but it wasn't the same as having the large pictures in front of you.
It does mean howver that those confined to their home who are au fait with e-books have a large selection of books to choose from.

Podcasts et al.

An apology and probable sense of impending doom is coming the way of the poor Web 2.0 person who has to suffer through my musings of this particular task.

I-tunes I love and always will, but Podcasts are just not my bag, having said that the Yahoo version did have some good music casts.
Podcast.net was the easiest for me to navigate, although when I tried to listen to a couple my poor computer told me I didn't have the necessary equipment. Yahoo's version was not at all helpful unless you had a particular podcast in mind.

This might be cheating, but I was looking at Annie's cos' we like to do that bonding thing, and saw her comment on the BBC pods, so had a go at that, and joy ! ! Things I really wanted to listen to...if my machine would let me. Maybe my flatmate will let me borrow his computer at home.. hmmmm.

You Tube

I first saw You Tube when a friend sent me the video for Here we go again by OkGo , at least I think that was the bands name. They got so many hits that the video was then put on Juice TV etc.

I agree that the Library Dominos showed a distinct lack of imagination. What about going downstairs... plus a variety of sizes and colours would have increased the interest factor. I'm still searching for a video I saw where a library patron got crushed in the stacks by the "evil" librarian. Was very funny and most cathartic...

Generally I found the site easy to use although copying and pasting was a tad confusing until I realised the code would bring the video up on the blog, not my post. Still got that sorted.

My video is a favourite from my childhood. Love it !! ! Ahh memories....

You Tube - My Favourite

2.0 Web awards

I could have picked Facebook, cos' I've been playing on this for quite a while, but decided to try something new instead. If you lived in USA 'Yelp.com' would have been extremely useful as it gave bars and restaurant details of each city alphabetically and then by state.
Clipmarks was interesting as you could 'clip' only the bits you were interested in. Fancy ! ! !