The 23rd thing finally

Well it has been an interesting journey and not always a fun one. To be honest some of the stuff I really disliked like the RSS feeds. That was a right pain. The image generators while fun I was thinking " so what's the point" if someone wants to fiddle with that rubbish they can do it themselves.

I did learn and retain some things like uploading photos and creating hyperlinks in my blogs. I thought the program was quite long 23 things is a lot to do and accomplish by a deadline when you have other pesky things to do as well like serving customers and putting books away etc.

There was also the frustration of having to try and get a computer in the Learn.net to actually do a lot of the lessons as the bits and pieces we needed were actually blocked on staff terminals.

However I carried on plugging away and finally I have reached the end and I am so pleased. Yay this is the last of dazed and confused kiwi. I am finished.

E Books

Well Project Gutenberg seems to be well set out and easily searchable but I wasn't a big fan of it.

I like the way there are at least 50 books available in most foreign languages. 50 is better than none.
There don't seem to be many if any at all contemporary best selling authors. A lot of what is available would be termed as proper literature by literary snobs who don't neccessarily approve of best selling literature like Catherine Coulter or Nora Roberts as an example.

I din't find anything that I wanted to download mainly because I couldn't really find authors that I like enough to listen to. If I am going to listen to an e-book I want a story that will keep me entertained but not give me a headache hence an author like Nora Roberts or J D Robb etc.

Great idea but broaden the genres and availability if copyright doesn't prevent them from doing so and then I may find one I like.

Podcasts

Well I looked at both suggested Podcast directories. Both were pretty pathetic but given the choice Podcastalley was a bit better.
I subscribed to two podcasts one on Ice Hockey (NHL) and one on Major League Baseball.
Very quick and easy to add to Bloglines but was a bt slow on the baseball as two of the sites that interested me were blocked.
I think from my own experience Itunes has a much better selection of Podcasts available to choose from if that is your thing and they are all free to subscribe to.. Yes you need the itunes software but that is free to download from the net anyway. So go Itunes

Youtube

I love Youtube and it's a great way to spend your lunchbreak if you can get on a terminal in the Learn.net
I looked up my favourite group The Ten Tenors and was spoilt for choice. I decided on one of my favourites which was The Boxer. Again it was frustrating trying to link this as we can't right click to copy and paste which of course is how most of us were taught.

However Youtube was very easy to get around and all I did was to put The Ten Tenors in the search box and I got a whole list of choices. The quality of the video in most cases isn't bad. Some aren't clear as but really they aren't too bad. Sometimes sound is an issue but as I said I love Youtube. They even have heaps of vids by one of my favourite male singers Mario Frangoulis.

You could always post Library events on Youtube and there may even be people crazy enough to watch them.