Tuesday, November 18, 2008

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.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

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.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

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.