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I now have two sets of NPR podcasts available off my Yahoo page. I'll never lack for interesting listening.

Thing 17 Podcasts

I've been interested in podcasts because I'm a NPR fan -- I like listening to their radio broadcasts. I am familiar with their website and love to pass on their audio commentaries to friends and family when they are interesting. So I listened to a Fresh Air broadcast and have put a link to this program which is on air 5 days a week on my browser view. I'll be able to easily listen to the noontime broadcasts whenever I want to from my computer. Then I tried to download one of the programs to my MP3 player and wasn't successful. It seems to synchronize up to 50% and then disappears. I should have enough space on it so I don't know what's the problem. I'll try again.

I was frustrated that my YouTube broadcast was squeezed into the rectangular box but now I realize that it's just a teaser and you click on it to link to the video.

I love to listen and love using my MP3 player for books so it's an easy leap for me to go to podcasts. I just have to get to the point where I find it an easy task to download and that'll come. It took me a while to do books from the library catalog but now I do it without trouble.

It was good to look through all the offerings on the podcast sites. Mind boggling what's out there.

Thing 16 You Tube

I brought in a You Tube video of a storyteller I admire but somehow it came in a long rectangle on the side of the blog. Not very successful to view but I was pleased again that my copying html worked. Have to re-do. (I took it off and will try again.)
I enjoyed the library tours, jokes, musical, etc. Would love to have a funny library tour on our website but it would take some good writing and filming.

thing 15 Rollyo

Well, I feel triumphant that I copied and pasted the html for Rollyo into my blog successfully after it not working with Library Thing.
I did like the readymade grouping of great websites for travel. I will definitely be checking there to prepare for the next trip for wanderwoman.
I am amused by the Star power website gatherers -- funny to see what celebrities are using for their website surfing but probably it's just Rollyo doing some marketing.
I can definitely see that Rollyo could be used at the reference desk. In a sense we have it already in our bookmark collection but this is a great way to personalize and winnow out what you really use and find valuable.

Thing 13

Library Thing
Very interesting-- I've wondered about it so I was glad to be introduced to its possibilities. I like knowing that I can add book covers to my posts. I signed in and took the tour. I do feel like saying that instead of doing Library Thing "I'd rather be Reading" but it's a valuable tool. I did look up the book I had just started and the postings immediately told me more than I wanted to know. Spoilers on the plot. I do like the announcements of what's happening locally in the book world.

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My attempt at using html to add a Library Thing widget didn't work out so well. I'll see about getting help.

Thing 14

I admit it- these things left me cold. I have done a MY Yahoo page and use it to check on some of the things I want to know about repeatedly. But an online to do list and a countdown widget just smack of overproduction for me. I put stuff in my Outlook calendar at work for other people but really prefer the old paper version. Writing things down imprints them in my memory and I don't want a computer to be on all the time so why do all this stuff online? I suppose the sharing part might be useful but again, there are some of my staff who don't check in online often enough to make this workable.