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Thing 23 Hurry

2007-08-24T18:31:00.003-04:00

Summarize your thoughts about this program on your blog and learn about where to go from here

Thing 22

2007-08-24T18:31:00.001-04:00

Take a look at the titles available on Overdrive or NetLibrary or Project Gutenburg and learn about downloadable audiobooks

Thing 21

2007-08-24T18:30:00.008-04:00

Discover some useful search tools for locating podcasts.

Thing 20

2007-08-24T18:30:00.007-04:00

Discover YouTube and a few sites that allow users to upload and share videos.

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/cat/tanks-mechanized/page/4/

On a lighter note:

Thing 19

2007-08-24T18:30:00.005-04:00

Explore any site from the Web 2.0 awards list, play with it and write a blog post about your findings.

Thing 18

2007-08-24T18:30:00.003-04:00

Take a look at some online productivity (word processing, spreadsheet) tools.

Thing 17

2007-08-24T18:30:00.001-04:00

Add an entry to the Learning 2.0 SandBox wiki.

Thing 16

2007-08-24T18:28:00.000-04:00

Learn about wikis and discover some innovative ways that libraries are using them.

Thing 15

2007-08-24T18:27:00.003-04:00

Read a few perspectives on Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and the future of libraries and blog your thoughts

Thng 14

2007-08-24T18:27:00.001-04:00

Explore Technorati and learn how tags work with blog posts.

Thing 13

2007-08-24T18:26:00.002-04:00

Learn about tagging and discover a Del.icio.us (a social bookmaking site)

Thing 12

2007-08-24T18:26:00.001-04:00

Roll your own search tool with Rollyo.

http://rollyo.com/mikethelibrarian/law_deportation/

Thing 11

2007-08-24T18:25:00.002-04:00

Take a look at LibraryThing and catalog some of your favorite books

DetC (Fictionary Library)

Thing 10

2007-08-24T18:25:00.001-04:00

Play around with an online image generator.

Charleston at Hogwarts
Rita Skeeter and Voldemort

Thing 9

2007-08-24T18:24:00.002-04:00

Locate a few useful library related-blogs and/or news feeds.

Explore MERLIN and then locate a few other useful library-related blogs and/or news feeds

Pittsville Library blog video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGCxQnnY018
is not for watching in its entirety but the footage of the library, which is a trailer, being delivered and setup on an unused portion of the public school property starts my mental midget brain going. The library can be anywhere. (I could have one in my front yard.) And may be when gas is more than $10 per gallon lots of little libraries will make lots of sense. What if you could walk or bicycle easily to a library from anywhere in the county and have access to books video etc in hard copy from any library in the county within a day, or download to your laptop on the spot. Or will we do it all from home. Probably some of both. Personally I want my library to have a book printing machine.

Well the blogs and myspace are free. Why not have many myspaces for the library which would be directed to different patron groups with different content and linked together allowing you to move among them to access the content that interests you !now! and linked to the libraries various blogs also, oh and the website also.

It is interesting that you yourself can sign your blog up to be include on a particular feed search website. It think it was Technorati where I encountered this.

Thing 8

2007-08-24T18:24:00.001-04:00

Learn about RSS feeds and setup your own Bloglines newsreader account.

feeds.vam.ac.uk/vam-podcasts.xml -- interesting series of podcasts on studio potters done by Victoria and Albert Museum.
I have added more than 10 items to my bloglines. Being able to create a hierarchy of folders (which I did) makes this site more useful. I now have the beginnings of useful tool for my personal and work interests.

Thing 7

2007-08-16T19:46:00.000-04:00

Create a blog post about anything technology related that interests you this week.

The end of the book?

Is the end of the book near? A good display on a portable device for reading ebooks could be the key factor in many people reading print hard copy a lot less. I really like all the features of Adobe 8, especially the feature that allows you to write notes in the margins, over the text, or separate from the text, but linked to a specific location in the text. You can view the document with or without the notes. (Now I will have to go home and make sure I am correct on this!) I think if I can get just a little better with my handwriting recognition app I will want to use this feature frequently with my Wacom tablet. Now if ebooks were substantially cheaper than books (and why can't they be?), and I had a comfortably portable and easily readable highdef digitizing screen I would want all my books on it. Oh and a couple of high capacity lightweight batteries. Oh and a way to carry all the stuff without hurting my back. My point, if I have one, is that I don't think the real competition between book and ebook has yet begun, because the ebook hardware isn't up to the task yet. It will take the ebook equivalent of the ipod to really make things interesting.

And if books become less and less available what will my detention center patrons be reading because I can't imagine getting readers in here (security problems). And what about poor people who cannot buy a device for reading ebooks? I can see subscription plans -- buy a years worth of books and get a "free" reader -- like cell contracts.

Thing 6

2007-08-16T18:39:00.000-04:00

Have some Flickr fun and discover some Flickr mashups & 3rd party sites

So I think I can streamline this by keeping this open in one Firefox so I can write as I explore in other tabs!

I cannot connect to Mappr through the or through links in a Google search for Mappr, but I used something in Flickr to search on a map of the world for photos of that place. Great but not all by any means of Flickr photos are linked in this way.

Checking out some links from Wikipedia Mashup article. I can see the buildings on the property where I live on moremap.com This site overlays a roadmap on sat images. The images must be from last summer I can see the perk holes in the field next door. A house was built there over the fall and winter and someone moved in a month or two ago. In the sat images from this site the lane isn't even there yet.
When I click traffic and 21701 it shows some green sections on 270 and 70 but no other routes have the graphical traffic info. By the way it brought me from Texas to Frederick Md when I inserted the Zipcode.

And Webmunes - photos(Flickr), Wikipedia, Amazon and more!

I'm sure what completions of these things entails but much time has passed and I must move on.

Thing 5

2007-08-15T19:00:00.000-04:00

Explore Flickr and learn about this popular image hosting site.

Well I seem to be over at Google now. On Flickr 2 hours and still browsing. How much credit do I get if I complete 1/2 of the 23?

(I will be revisiting thing 1 and 3 shortly! -- completed!)

On Flikr I found photos of my pottery teachers work in a show called Utility Inspired: Clay at Main Line Art Center in Philadelphia -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sokref1/158369732/

The whole show is documented on Flikr and here is my teachers piece.

Jack Troy: cosmic-burned affect (set)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sokref1/sets/72157594152655389/

And here is the celebrity who hangs tirelessly in the Detention Center Library

Tags - Lots to say about tags, but most interesting to me so far is when you are a photographers "main page" or whatever and you look at their tags they are arranged in a box alphabetically and the more photos with that tag the bigger the type face of the name of the tag.

I have been browsing a book on digital assets management and similar tagging is one of ways suggested by the author for pro photographers to organize their photos. He suggests physically descriptive and emotionally descriptive tags for each photo, plus a quality rating. For you personal collection you would probably control you tag vocabulary even is only unconsciously. I suppose searching Flickr tags is something like searching the for free internet. You usually find what you want, especially if you a re looking for what everyone else is looking for, but it is probably impossible to have a search be precise or exhaustive. Hopefully controlled vocabulary indexing does better. Back to Flickr, some submitters photos have no tags so tag search will never find their photos. But I always go away happy because there are so very many photos that I always see something interesting.

I plan to sign in to Flickr but I am going to take some time to come up with a good alias before I do (after 23 Things!)

Thing 3

2007-08-14T19:08:00.000-04:00

Set up your own blog & add your first post.

Aha: There is more than 1 thing per week. Lifelong learning tutorial completed

Actually this should go here and not in thing 2 I think (which no longer exists because it didn't require a post - I think. I am learning how to edit these things out of grave necessity!):

Lifelong learning thoughts --
Since there are less than 2 weeks to go and I am now completing Thing 2 I must admit that Habit 1 setting a goal and formulating a plan and checking in on it is the habit that is not a habit of mine (yet!). Confidence(misplaced) I am not lacking.

Thing 1 and Thing 2

2007-08-10T16:47:00.000-04:00

Read this blog & find out about the program

I have completed reading about 23 things on the blog post and listened to the podcast.

Discover a few pointers from lifelong learners and learn how to nurture your own learning process.