Want to insert a live link here. Is this the way?
www.snowflakebentley.com

Thing 23 CML Learn and play

Right now I am so overwhelmed by doing so many "things" today that I can hardly think straight. Today we had no materials come in to Technical Services so I used the time to work on Learn n Play. I had given up on having the time to finish it all. Fall publishing season was not the time for me to try this!

Anyway, I did learn a lot, especially about what "Web 2.0" means. The "things" have given me a good introduction to what I can do out there on the web. I was confused and petrified about trying anything new. Now I'm just confused! But willing to get out there now and learn more about all these discoveries.

I especially liked flickr, youtube, Geni (the genealogical site), and del.icio.us. I didn't see much use to me for Twitter. I think the RSS feeds on Google Reader could be useful if I had the time to go look at them. This does not happen at work. Perhaps at home, but I don't spend a lot of time on the computer.

I feel a generation gap yawning in front of me. My children accomplish so much and are so familiar with the web. I grew up reading, playing card and board games, doing crafts, watching tv. I still like doing those things and although the computer is fascinating and useful, I just don't have it at the top of my list. Maybe when I retire! Looking forward to that-- and who knows what the internet will have to offer in 13 years!

Thing 22 MOLDI

I was happy to see that some titles could be burned to CD, as I don't really fancy listening to a book at my computer table. I don't have an MP3 player either. Quite a variety of titles available.

I tried to check a couple one out and got to the point of downloading, where I kept getting an error message telling me "A problem has occured in retrieving the Digital Rights Management machine identification." A co-worker said she had to call IT to get that straightened out. So for now, I will simply say I looked around the MOLDI site and tried to check out some titles.

I found the podcast directories hard to learn how to use in the limited amount of time I have to allocate. I ended up using podcastpickle and looked at some random podcasts. Having trouble finding a podcast relating to libraries. Next I went to podcaastalley.com and had better luck at find library podcasts. There was one where teens had a book, movie discussion and talked about programs at the library.

I did find a podcast of interest to me personally, a weekly program, called Pet Talk Naturally. I can't figure out how to add an RSS feed. Not even sure this one has an RSS feed. Oops, the RSS feed is to be added to Google Reader. OK.

AH HA! I did it. Found the RSS feed for this podcast and added to Google Reader. This is not easy for me!

I found this on Youtube while looking for the music video Ordinary Day by Great Big Sea. This is a cover of the song and IT IS GREAT!

Thing 19

I added a comment in Tooling around (Firefox post). Looked in the Tool Box and visited Boing Boing. A little too much info there!! I saw a youtube video of a dog saying "Obama". Hmmm.

Looked at StumbleUpon. Stumbled upon a picture of a Corgi with his tongue in the peanut butter jar. HA HA!!!

Thing #5

Just realized I never did a blogpost about this thing. I had put in the url for a picture on flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jackieinmi/2363231199/

I used to live in Ironwood Michigan (Da UP) and was very pleased to find such a nice photo of the Ironwood Theatre sign.