Music and Audio

This was interesting. I didn't get the radio thing at first, I mean why waste time with one of these sites when I can listen to my iPod or other music player? But, after talking with a work mate I can see where people would like this option. I personally could care less who else out there likes the same music I do, but others might want to talk to others that like the same bands or music style. Of the three sites offered I like Pandora best. It was fun to look up my favorite bands, watch videos and listen to music. One thing I liked about Last.fm was the top played list, I would use this to discover new bands I hadn't heard of before.
I thought that the Gutenberg.org site was torture! It is great that all these books are out there and someone has put them on the Internet for free for people to read, but good grief, I had eye strain after the first paragraph.
The one I loved was Mango Languages. I am trying to learn another language so this will be fun.

Google Docs -

This is very interesting. At first I could see that companies could really use this and that is about all, but after thinking about it and reading some more I see a whole lot of possibilities. I will start using this at home, since our new computer only came with a trail version of Microsoft Word and that is about done.

I am now trying to figure out how to post this on my blog and I am finding that I have to do a lot of digging to find out how to do some stuff. As I was digging I did find something that was kind of funny to me. Under Share, there is an option to "Email as attachment", isn't that what Lee LeFever in the video we had to watch at the beginning of this exercise said was so nice about Google Docs, that you did not have to email attachments to people? Whatever.

It just made me chuckle. :-)

Totally Cool Stuff!

I tried all of the suggested sites and liked most of them. Scrabulous and Wordshoot were my favorites. I was kind of annoyed with Sketchcast because you had to create an account to even try it out. With this Discover 2.0 program, I have made more accounts with different websites that I care to count and I did not want to make one more. It does look like a neat program though, I saw what a coworker did with his, and he did a awesome drawing.

Wicked Wiki

Wikis are definitely interesting. I use Wikipedia quite frequently and find that it is a very good source for quick information. As I was looking at the different wikis listed on the Discover 2.0 page I was disappointed with most of the sites. The information on the sites would be more appealing on a regular webpage. I did like the Wikihow, it always nice to know there are instructions out there on how to hire a bodyguard in case the need ever arises. :-) Wikimedia Commons was also fascinating, I am very visual and I loved the cool pictures, check out the picture above that I found while searching.
As for concerns about these kind of sites, I don't have many. I'm sure that there is bad information out there, but for every person who adds bad content to a page there is someone out there who is just inchin' to correct the information and then all is well.
We use pbwiki here at work to keep track of storytime themes, fingerplays and good books for school visits. I think that it is a great resource but I am never quite satisfied with it. I keep thinking, if I could only do this or I wish entering data was easier. For now, it's great but hopefully later I will find something that meets all my needs.

Good Read, Library Thang!

Pretty cool. I ended up making an account with both services to really get the feel of the two. Both had good and bad things about them. I thought that Library Thing had a better tutorial but Good Reads seemed to be easier to add books and notes to each book you entered. When I first was reading about these two services I was excited about being able to list all the books that our family owns, but after entering just a few titles I realized that cataloging all of our books would be very time consuming. I think that these services are great for people who want to keep track of the books that they have read during the year but not for going back and entering everything from the past.
I do like the little widget and where on Library Thing you can access your list on your phone, so when you are at the book store and are not sure if you have the book you can check.
I know a number of patrons who I will recommend these two sites to, but I don't know how much I will use them.