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Summary

Some of my favorite exercises during the 23 things were flicker, youtube, Rss feeds, podcasts, and wiki's. I have learned that there are some interesting things in the blogisphere I wasn't aware of, such as delicious. I honesty can't say I was surprised by anything in particular. A suggestion for the format would be to encourage reading of other blogs and making comments on posts. I would also be eager to participate in future discovery programs.

Digital Media Collection

The Art of War
The Essential Translation of the Classic Book of Life

From description:

For more than two thousand years, The Art of War has stood as a cornerstone of Chinese culture, a lucid text that reveals as much about psychology, politics, and economics as it does about battlefield strategy.

Podcasts

The Podcasts Alley link was pretty interesting. Searching is easy, performed by keywork or browsing. I was able to find a few sites that interest me. I linked to Practical Backpacking's podcasts on my Bloglines account. Here is a link to my Bloglines list: http://www.bloglines.com/blog/mitchellp23things

You Tube

Peter Aerts

I.K.B.F. World Heavyweight Champion
W.M.T.A.World Muay Thai Heavyweight Champion
K-1 GRAND PRIX '97 3rd Place
K-1 GRAND PRIX '94, '95, '98 Champion
K-1 WORLD GP 2001 in Las Vegas Finalist
K-1 WORLD GP 2003 3rd Place
K-1 WORLD GP 2006 - 2007 Finalist






I don't have any problems with YouTube, and generally like everything abou the site. Sorry, but I don't really see the benefit for libraries using this.

Onmidrive

From the Seomoz.org Web 2.0 list of awards I chose Onmidrive in the Digital Storage category. Digital storage is nice for documents you might need when away from your computer. I don't know if I would trust having this service for all my documents, however. What happens if the company shuts down? Are all documents lost? It seems too risky for me. Also, the storage amounts are too small for use of anything except temporary storage of files. The free account only gives you 1 gb of storage. The pro3 account, at $200 per year, only gives you 50 gb of storage. I'm not impressed. Nor would I use it in a library setting.

Zoho

If I had to use an online word processor, this would be a good choice. It seems to have excellent features for an online product. The equation editor seems particulary useful. Typing was easy and seemed fluid; some online products are stuttery. Even so, I still am not yet a fan of online applications although I am sure we will be forced that way in the future.

PBCLS exploring web 2.0 wiki

Another wiki. Its nice, you can add content and easily search it. Even though I like wikii, I'm thinking they are just web pages that are easily searched. Yeah. Nothing really new or novel, but I do agree it is easier than searching a normal web page.

Wikis

I generally like wikis. Wikipedia is a great resource, containing real information, with sources of that inofrmation. The content is "peer-reviewed" in that others can update that information. The wikis linked to for this exercise however, are not much more than a collection of links that could be posted on a normal webpage. I noticed one of the wikis could only be updated by librarians. Kinda defeats the purpose of a wiki...

Away from the “icebergs”

Interesting article. Discusses the obselete "just in case" collections that libraries have, usually static and periodically updated information for everyone. Suggests patrons wanting access to digital information warrants dumping of print materials to better serve patrons. Also suggests that services should be able to be used without training, or the service is undesirable. Article also suggests putting more information online, pushing our services out, instead of requiring a parton to come to us. WEb 2.0 to me, and this article, is about providing easy to use information sources digitally.

Technorati

Technorati seems to be a pretty powerful seach tool for searching blogs. The different ways of searching by tags is really useful. A search is available by general topic, as well as the top 100 blogs. Searching other popular blogs is also available.

www.technorati.com

del.icio.us

This app is useful for bookmarking sites and being able to find them again. Also, other users bookmarks are cataloged, so searching a tag would help you find other sites on the same topic. I can see this being more powerful over the folder method. I don't know if I would use this for doing much research, but it would be nice for having bookmarks available at any computer.

Webfeat

Seems like this is handy, allows searching of selected databases at the same time. Also makes you wonder why there isn't just one "database" to begin with; similar, you know, to that Google thing...

Found this article about LCS:

Christmas thieves plague town in Florida.
Source:UPI NewsTrack (Dec 24, 2006)(194 words) Reading Level (Lexile): 1380.
Document Type:Newswire
Bookmark:Bookmark this Document
Library Links:
Full Text :COPYRIGHT 2006 United Press International
PALM BEACH, Fla., Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Lake Clarke Shores, Fla., where there are normally only a dozen break-ins a year, has seen 14 house robberies in the last month.

Library Thing

What is it? A catalog for books. Not really worth the bandwith...

A link to my catalog:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/mitchellp23things

Generators

www.magmypic.com

RSS feeds

RSS feeds are nice to have if you visit mulitple sites. RSS feeds allow you to view content from multiple sources in one location, thus saving time. It is easy to add channels and the updates are automatic. I prefer the Google Reader to do this. I have tried Bloglines and do not care for the interface.

Virtual Star Gazing

Microsoft has created the WorldWide Telescope, a night sky simulator application. You can now gaze at nebulae, stars and planets from the comfort of your computer desk while avoiding mosquitoes and the purchase expensive telescopes. Guided virtual tours are also available.

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/

Wide Angle pictures

New Mexico Sandias
Originally uploaded by Open Threads

Interesting lanscape photos can be created with a wide angle lens on a DSLR camera. The photograper for this impressive photo used a Canon EF-S 10-22 lens to capture a large area of the landscape.

Get your shirts here:

Found this blog post, and thought I would pass it on

http://blog.justbob.us/2007/12/re-defeat-communism-2008.html

The real American Idols