no really

no no, thank you

what i really think

it really does seem like the 27things went by fast. some were fun, good ideas, others not so much.
as far as helping me reach my lifelong learning goals, i guess it helped me learn some new things, although they were not necessarily things at the top of my list. (like learning how to write a haiku.) but it did inspire me to focus on learning new things.
my favorites were the flickr mash-ups, and the silly animation ones. anything silly and useless is what i like best, i suppose. i was surprised by some of the choices, like rss feeds, as well as by how many different tools there are out there that you have to have a login and password for.
i didn't really need help with anything, but we did have several discussions about learning 2.0 where we talked about different ways of blogging that we'd tried. so there was some collaboration. i would definitely like to see any new technologies that come up that would be related to what we do at the library. i think this was a little bit too broad at times, and then too specific at others. if we had just one specific thing we were looking at, that had just been released or we had just begun to use, that might be more useful.
and i would definitely do it again. whatever frustrations i had were not insurmountable, and were not even close to what some people had. i enjoyed it, and i would tell myself that participating was worth it. (especially once i get that mp3 player.)

you tube

here is the promised youtube post.
i like youtube, and i suppose it could be useful for libraries. videos of events are fun, and storytimes, etc. would we really need youtube in order to broadcast those sorts of videos though? is there someway we could upload them ourselves? i honestly don't know, but i think that might be better. or do both, maybe, so that people can find library videos if they do a search on youtube.
on my personal blog i don't really have a way to embed videos, so i'm excited to try it with blogger. and this video has absolutely nothing to do with the library or even learning 2.0. i just wanted to post it because i found it amusing. so enjoy. wait a second . . . i have to log in on youtube to get the html to post it?? but i don't want to create another login!! and you can't make me!!!

podcasts

i know i skipped one, but i'll get back to check out youtube later.
podcast.net was a cool search engine. i looked for library in the keywords search and came up with some interesting things. some were specifically about technical library stuff for library staff. some were book reviews. one was a teen book review podcast, which sounds like a totally cool idea. and there were even podcasts of audiobooks. i didn't actually look at the site itself, so i'm not sure if they're free. but it seems like a good idea.
libraries could use podcasts for all of these things, but i think it would be fun to have updates of events and that sort of thing as well. an audio event calender maybe. and kids and teens doing their own book reviews. those would be fun podcasts to listen to.

web 2.0 awards

i was a little disappointed with the first thing that i searched for on the awards. they didn't have enough book sites to give awards out? how is that possible? well, anyways, i still like librarything best out of the ones they had listed. and i liked the fact that digg won at least second place for newssites, although i don't remember if /. was listed. it's funny how sometimes when you know about something and like it, you don't want to check out new things. i know about those sites and use them, so they're my favorite, and i'm irritated when i don't see them in these kind of listings. i'm sure the learning 2.0 team is suggesting many things that they are familiar with and like, because you think they're the best. it's just the way we are. but it's good to have someplace to go to find new stuff, if we ever want to.

google labs

this was a fun exercise. i love google, and i wasn't even aware of some of this stuff. google trends was cool, but i'm not really sure how useful it would be. google transit is a great idea; hopefully they'll get more cities involved in that, and maybe find a way to interconnect different services.
i don't even notice half the time if things are in beta or not. everything that's available to use usually works smoothly enough. the beta's that i enjoy are mmorpg betas that other people can't get in to. of course they're even buggier than some of the sites we've looked at, but that's the point.

online software

as a google user, i of course prefer the google documents. zoho uses the same format, it looks like. i didn't really look that much, i'll admit, because i didn't feel like creating another account for something. but google documents really is very easy to use. i use it to transfer stuff from my computer at home (on which i use open office software) to school or work computers (which use microsoft word). since the two are not compatible, google documents is a good transition for me. i've never used the collaborative features, but i can see how useful they would be. and i may be trying those out with my research partner this quarter!