23 skidoo

Well this Learn and Play Web 2.0 business was interesting, thought provoking, and sometimes fun. My favorite things about the program were reading the other blogs and Youtube. I feel I am a little less of a Luddite and a little more tech savvy, having strengthened areas with which I was already familiar and broadened my Web horizons with new concepts and applications.

I would definitely participate in another discovery program (Web 3.0?) like this in the future.

Exiting the blogosphere,
Library Man

P.S. The reason I named this blog "and in this corner...Library Man" is because my son sometimes tells people his dad is a professional wrestler and a library man.

your mold samples, Dr. Honeydew

MOLDI. What a moniker. I checked out MOLDI and I indeed like it. I found a new Dinosaur Jr. DVD on the front page and promptly put it in my cart to watch later. I couldn't find any e-books by Vladimir Nabokov which I thought was weird. However; I wasn't too disheartened though, for I find reading too much from a computer screen makes me feel like Beaker from the Muppets. Nevertheless, I see MOLDI use growing, especially with AV.

pods

I am familiar with podcasts. I have some favorite podcasters that I listen to quite often. I used Podfeed.net to find a possible new favorite: Alternative Kitchen Garden which is now added to my bloglines account. I found a library survival guide by Woodruff Library on Podcastalley.com; however, it required a software download, so that site receives a thumbs down. The podcasts I frequently listen to are hosted on libsyn.com which I like well enough.

As to podcasts relevance, we could follow Woodruff Library's example and create a customized guide to CML. Also, the futurist who visited CML last year said info will be passed along more and more verbally with books on CD, podcasts, etc. I have to agree with him.

So yeah, I like podcasts.

Quiet Library

I am very familiar with Youtube. I watch videos on the site a few times a week. My favorite channels/users are Permaculture Science, Peak Moment, and the Dervaes family's Path To Freedom.

For something a bit more humorous. Here is a clip from a Japanese game show called Quiet Library. The ending is unforgettable.

Tools

I checked out the toolbar and the Tooling Around blog. The Book Burro sounds promising. Some of the books which I am interested acquiring are out of print and out of my price range. I wonder how much more effective Book Burro is than the behemoth Amazon.com.

I read the top five reasons to get Gmail on the Tooling Around blog. I used to have a Gmail account a few years ago, but I let it atrophy. I already had enough e-mail accounts with enough storage and didn't feel like sending out the e-mail "Here is my new e-mail address."

Lulu

For Thing #18, I glanced at the winners and found Lulu. I had first used Lulu to buy a book earlier this year: After the Crash: An Essay-Novel of the Post-Hydrocarbon Age. I was impressed with how the book looked and felt...the content was pretty good too. So I investigated the Lulu site a bit out of curiosity. Lulu's goal "has been to have 1 million users that sell 10 books instead of 10 authors that sell 1 million books." It would not seem like a financially prudent proposition to pay even the minimum prices to get a book published if a user only plans to sell a few books. But hey, sometimes it is all about getting the word out so to speak.

Heaven Seventeen

Dear Blog,

I have neglected you for so long. I am trying to kick start myself again after the hiatus of Learn and Play assignments. For some reason I have had the soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange in my head as of late...hence the title of this very entry.

Regards,
Jared

P.S. So Goggle docs. Heeeeeeere's mine. I cannot foresee how this would help me in my current position (except to win some tech swag). However, I can see how it may come in handy with reading lists and/or finance reports.

P.P.S. Sorry about that guttural sounding moniker of yours. Cheer up, you could of been named Blah.