Do YOU TUBE?

What do you know, I'm actually a tiny bit on top of the exercise this week!!!
I am a member of YOUTUBE! I find it to be a cool site, if you check out the seomoz web 2.0 awards, you'll find that YOUTUBE ranks in the top three for video category. I also belong to metacafe and that came in third. I do have several faves in my file as well as a couple of postings that my hubby and I uploaded. Watch in order...

Hey, I just went to my account and got a message from a buddy named AVDJ who was spending his vacation going on a scavenger hunt! He wanted people from YOUTUBE who visited his site to give him items to look for. I asked him to find a public library, go inside and ask for a copy of To Kill A Mockingbird...HE DID!!! My alias in youtube is Phootyboots...



I also wanted to share a silly video my husband created for me of an incident that involved wild monkeys in Japan... it was his first creative endeavor and unfortunately his last (for now).

2006 Web 2.0 Awards

This was sooo AWESOME!! seomoz along with flickr have been my absolute favorite exercises! The people that were interviewed in the Zeitgeist section; Danny Sullivan, Brad stone to name a few, gave the most truthful in site I've found with regards to the entire "Web 2.0" phenomenon. I suggest checking the site out and in particular, visit the Zeitgeist section. Proof is in the pudding so to speak.

My favorite section was the retail awards in the short list. The short list gives you only the top awarded sites in a gazillion categories. My favorite categories were retail and photo's and digital imaging. Flickr came in first for the later category and astoundingly enough, a site my daughter loves and spends money she doesn't have (although, now I'll be buying her something cuz it's such a cool site) came in second in the retail category! It's called threadless they carry nothing but unique t-shirts and hoodie designs by up and coming artists.

Oh, I spent this weekend outside!!! Yeah, I took a few pictures of spring and the chaos that ensues when the sun shines on the Eastside! It's like an ant hill that has been laying dormant for the winter. check my flickr account, you can click right to it by clicking on my flickr badge to the right of this blog.

Enjoy the sunshine, enjoy life!!!

Google Lab inspection

Google Reader lets you keep track of all your favorite sites. Isn't that like the "Favorites Star" on my MSN window?

Google Music Trends keeps all the google fans up to date on what everyone is listening too...I don't know anyone in my circle listening to AKON and if Nelly Furtado is the second biggest hit being listend to on Google I'm either really out of the loop or WAAAAY ahead of my time. I'm more the My Chemical Romance, The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, Floyd, Rush, Zepplin kinda gal...eclectic rock?

I did find Google Transit of interest. If you enter the address you're leaving from and the address of your destination a schedule pops up! It tells you where the closest bus is and which buses, if any, you will need to transfer to as well as an estimated trip time. For instance; if I wanted to ride the bus to work, I would only have three choices. The earliest being 10:33 in the morning. I would first need to walk approximatetly20 minutes to my closest neighborhood bus stop (They suggested it, not me). Once on the bus, I would transfer one time and it would take me approximately 45 minutes to get to the bus stop on Sunset and Maple where I would get off the bus and proceed to walk another 12 to 15 minutes in order to get to work...great in the summer time if I wanted to get up at the crack of dawn and get home after dark when the racoons are foraging. It takes me 40 minutes to drive to work, with out the hassle of changing my full time hours to part time...

Google Page Creator is a "no brainer" web page design for folks like me who just want everything done for them...lol...seriously, a quick start up buisness might want to look at this as an inexpensive way to advertise and get the word out that they are up and running. Besides, you don't have to worry about losing those long arduous thoughts (like me who loses things in just a click) because Page Creator saves it automatically for you!!!

Google it seems to me is riding the tail coat of MSN windows in many ways with the excel, document sharing, word processing, etc. But I also think it has some really ingenious ideas and some will come in handy in the future. People who have really stripped down computers that don't have MSN already installed might find Google useful...as for me; well, I'm sort of old school in that department, MSN all the way...for now.

combining 19 and 20...

Just a quick thought on the whole "WEB 2.0" experience and where I see it going. Simple fact; it's here to stay! Get used to the idea that CHANGE is imminent! CHANGE is a GOOD THING!!!Every second of every single day the web is changing and as it changes, so too do our library systems.

There are some who think that the computer will obliterate books. If that were the case, it would have happened a very long time ago. Humans have evolved, especially our young ones, to a level of multi-tasking in which the information is not only gathered and obtained via books but even more so thru a computer. Librarians today have got to be savvy in their knowledge and use of computers and the web. It behooves them to know as much as their patrons especially the young, school age ones. If libraries are to be a part of the community, then it makes sense for the establishments to house and make accessible such knowledge as can be found on the web as well as ensuring their employee's understand and use the most up to date tools. Isn't that why we are participating in the KCLS 27 THINGS project?

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

With that, I couldn't think of a really good reason for using the spreadsheet maker or the word format in google or Zoho in fact, I find it silly, to be honest. If you own a computer, then you most likely have msn office or outlook on your computer and it has excel, word, publisher, etc. I suppose if someone had a really stripped down computer then yeah, they might want to use these programs, but I'm happy with outlook. I can do everything, including share and have my fellow co-workers edit my files if I want them to.

Thanks, but NO THANKS!!!

Lesson 18 search engine roll....

Search engines are a must have for every computer user. Having specific search engines for all my favorite things,right at my finger tips is even better! I decided to create a search engine roll for my son who would like to get a degree in Technical Theater. Being that there is so very little on the actual subject in colleges, it's just been within the last 10 years that programs are being created for Techi's, it wasn't easy putting together information.

Rollyo was very glossy, pretty, lots of advertisments for "technical colleges". I decided to try out google. I did create my account with google and as you will see, I did add a couple of links. Being able to just click on the subject at hand is great and I do think that it is something I'll use at home for my traveling and more educational needs for both kids.

Up, Up and Away...

And so Cataloging and Processing says goodbye to Darth Nielsen, the best music librarian our department has had in a very long time!!! He will be moving upward (literally) to TLC...You guys are SO DARN LUCKY!!!!

Lesson 17 already!?

My Motivator Picture from Flickr My Mosaic made with Flickr pictures

It seems like yesterday when I was struggling to just creat this blog spot! I'm glad that our "Masters" at KCLS 2.0 27things has given us this week to play. I hadn't the opportunity nor the gumption for that matter to explore or join anymore sites...little did I know, they would entice us with toys...bwah ah ah ah ah!!!!!


I do have a fondness for flickr, if you haven't noticed already so I did play alot with that site but I did go to the generator blog and had a blast! I took a spin thru glassgiant.com, where I created a giant cookie and became a Super Hero for the day.

Under extreme stress, I become... Thunder Sister !!! I have a Secret Special Power: Mystical Lips. My Transportation: Magnetic Train (I'm not sure how a magnetic train works or where to find one). I have a Weapon: Quantum Blade. and even a costume! Personally, I'm not into Steel but what the heck; Costume: Stainless Steel Cowl. I have a Sidekick: Dirk Deadly (I wonder if we are married) and a realNemesis: Eric the Elder. This is ironic as in real life, I love cats but I am allergic; Tragic Flaw: Fear of cats How my favorite food got to be Cheese is really not my choosing but the what the heck again! It's all in fun, right?

My Cookie from glassgiant.com

You'll notice all sorts of little pictures and do-dads thru out my page. Have fun, I did!

Here A Wiki, There A Wiki, Everywhere A Wiki, Wiki!!!

In Hawaiin, Wiki-Wiki means quick or hurry. So it only makes sense to call this super fast way to get and give various sources of information in one place "Wiki", sort of like one stop shopping!

This weeks lesson 15 really home for me. Our family uses wikipedia ALOT!!! Homework seems to be the big reason for my teens. It's a wealth of information on everything, I do mean EVERYTHING. Research for my son's senior project (technical theater) has been so much easier since he started using wikipedia.

I visited the ALA 2007 link and wish I hadn't been sick on the day I had planned on going! I did like how nicely the menu's were set with interesting events and "self guided" tours for newbies or more seasoned ALA CON goers.

My fave site is the Princeton library! Very cool indeed. I checked out the various reviews on books and what people were reading, I like that it was set up in a visually appealling way. I like to read but I tend to be drawn to pictures and colors. Captions that pop and spark my interest are going to be clicked on quicker that having to read an entire page to find the information I'm looking for.

Wiki's are cool!