Thing 23

Almost finished- just this blog entry to go. First, my favorite things in the 23 are the ones that will enable me to get information easily for research for my writing or my interests. This includes the Bloglines and the word processing tools. Sites like Facebook and Linkedup, I probably won't use as these seem more social, but it's interesting to see what people are talking about when they mention these. Mostly all this confirmed what I suspected, that there are more tools out there for me to get information and that this is mostly what I want to do on the web. I thought the format of the program worked really well and I would participate if another individual learning program were offered by PPLD. Thanks so much!

Thing 21 and 22

I explored You-Tube a little and looked at some of the commercials that all Pikes Peak Reads put out. They're really good. I also looked at a snippet on one of the presidential candidates. It was fun.
I also explored the NPR Podcast Directory and subscribed to the World Audio/Video Podcast site on my bloglines. I'm a NPR fan so this was good and I might actually use it at home.

Thing 20

I checked out the winners of the Web 2.0 Awards and looked into Lulu about self-publishing books, this is a 'good to know about' site for me as a writer. Also, I checked out ThinkFree to look into free word processing products.

Thing 18 and 19

I looked over Google Labs: mars maps, lookups. Interesting to see what they're creating. I am now writing this on Zoho Writer. This is the most interesting thing to me, since I'm a writer. I might sign up at home and see how I like writing on it. I think I need to write quite a bit to really see. Mainly, if I collaborate on a writing project, this could be valuable.

Thing 17

I read the wikipedia article on Library 2.0. It seems that the 23 Things lessons are moving toward the staff understanding and using the technology that has to be part of Library 2.0. And the technology is part of the democratizing effects of the web, even libraries have to change.

Thing 15 & 16

I went into Del.icio.us and got an account and the buttons on the top of my Microsoft Internet Explorer. I am puzzled as to why this site is more convenient than just having a favorites list. It must be just to be able to see who else or how many other people have that web site on their list. I also added a blog to my bloglines on my Google Reader account. Again not sure how this is better than having the blogs in my favorites list except maybe you can add blogs you might not have thought of through Technorati- this site is useful.

Thing 13 and Thing 14

Checked out MySpace and Facebook. I created an account in Facebook. I can't say I'll use these sites much. I'm not much of a chatter but I certainly was interested to see what they looked like and how they looked since they are in the news so much.
I also looked at Ning and could not see much difference, really, but I signed up for it anyway. I like the informational sites better.

Thing 10,11,12

I did the LinkedIn and couldn't find any of my friends from college listed. That was kind of sad. But if they do sign in later, I'm there. I also did the LinkedIn and I love that site. I've often thought about putting out there my favorite books and personal reviews of them. This seems like a perfect site to get started. And there's a networking aspect as well. The last was the Rollyo site. I didn't get much out of that but it might help eventually to get all my websites together, instead of listing them in long lines of favorites.

Thing 8 and 9

Finally, I spent a few minutes every day trying to recover my Google account from the black hole. I did my readers, rss feeds, and somehow didn't realize it's on the same account as my blog. So, I messed around with changing passwords several times, even using my home e-mail account several times but that didn't work. All since last Thursday, 3/20. Well, today all is recovered even my feeds. I'd already subscribed the a co-workers account last week. It's good to be successful at this despite the trouble!

Lesson 2

Whoops I did lesson 3 before 2 but then I missed a week last week. This time I registered on the intranet wiki and I looked around on the other library's wiki.

I explored flickr today. Some really beautiful photos. I think for my own use- the mappr tool would be good. Match up photos from flickr with the location on the map. I could also use flickr to send photos of my daughter to relatives.

I'm here

I finally am started my first blog. Now I'll know what all the shouting is about