Week 9, Thing 23 - Summarize your thoughts

That's it! I've explored everything! Well - at least 23 things of everything. I spent lots of time working with all the different technologies. Some were easier to use than others. Some didn't seem to work at all for me. Even though at times I was frustrated, there was always something that proved interesting. I don't believe that I will use my blog or bloglines account as my homepage . Therefore, all the feeds that I incorporated into my account won't be popping out at me unless I go to that account. I want to delve farther into some things to have them become useful to me. My favorite things were the Avatars, generator blogs and YouTube. I had fun working on this and would do something similar again. An unexpected outcome was that I was able to tell my daughters about some technologies that they didn't know about. Our situations were reversed.
While I didn't mind working on this at home (I thought of it as finding out fun things on the Internet), it would have been harder to find the time at work because the summer is so busy. At least for me it would have been difficult to allow the amount of time at work for the amount of time I actually worked on it.

I am glad I did the 23 Things because at least I have a surface knowledge of the kind of things that are out there. I'm sure librarians will be called upon more and more to help patrons with problems they have while working on those sites. The 23 Things project is important to librarians for that very reason. Technology is moving forward fast. We have to be ready and move with it. Libraries have always been a place for people to discover things - whether it is is found in print or non print or on the internet is irrelevant. And we, as librarians, have to be able to help them find what they need.

Week 9, Thing 22 - Learn about Audiobooks

I've taken the Overdrive guided tour and looked at Netlibrary. I've downloaded, upgraded, restarted and whatever else I needed to do. I chose a book to download onto my computer at home but I still need to upgrade. I just did that! So now I have simply removed the book from my bookbag and I will read it in print. I'm sure this is great for someone who wants to transfer it to a portable device and maybe sometime I'll try again.

Week 9, Thing 21 - Discover some useful tools for locating podcasts

My discovery process was not easy. I found some good podcasts but it was difficult finding the RSS feed. I tried to add the feed for young adult book revews and it looks like I will be getting all kinds of info. On the other hand, I did find a nice shortcut to adding any website that I am looking at to my bloglines account - providing it has an RSS feed. I need to look at this further.