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Thoughts - Challenge # 23

Not really much of a challenge at this point.

Just supposed to summarize my thoughts.

At this point I've done all the real challenges, but haven't actually registered for the program (challenges 1 & 3, neither of which are particularly challenging).

Many of these items I've used before:

Blogs

Youtube

Social Bookmarking

Google Maps

Google RSS Reader

Flickr

del.icio.us

Wikis

Google Docs & Spreadsheets

Podcasts with iTunes

Some that I had heard of but never really used before include:

LibraryThing

Technorati

Online Image Generators

Some I had never heard of before:

Twitter

Rollyo

Honestly, the ones I've used before I will probably continue to use, however sparsely, but the ones I hadn't used much before...well, I probably won't revisit them much.

However, It's always nice to have some exposure to something new.

Teach Someone - Challenge # 22

I showed someone how to use the dumpr site.

It's relatively easy.

Just select the format you want (choices include - photo in museum, sphere, old timey, puzzle, and drawing).

Browse your computer for the image you want to play with.

Hit the "continue" button.

The result shows up.

If you really want to do something with it, you can embed the photo somewhere else.

Like this:

Still fooling with Dumpr

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Web 2.0 - Challenge # 15

There seem to be a lot of definitions of Web 2.o out there.

There's even talk of a Web 3.0.

Wikipedia's definition: a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies — which facilitate collaboration and sharing between users.

From Wordspy: A second phase in the evolution of the World Wide Web where developers use new technologies to create websites that look and act like desktop programs and encourage collaboration and communication between users.

Basically, Web 2.0 is pulling together many of the elements that we're encountering in our Challenges here. Some of these elements were present in Myspace. That's where I first blogged and found music videos, among other things. It also allowed me to reconnect with people I hadn't heard from since the '80s.

I read some of the "Library 2.o and 'Library 2.0'" article from Cites and Insights, but found it to be a bit of a mess, doing more to confuse on the topic of Library 2.0 than illuminate.

Podcasts - CHALLENGE # 21

I've been an iPod owner for years, and started using iTunes before that, so my familiarity with Podcasts goes back at least a couple of years.

I've never really been into them though. Similar to the way I've never been into talk radio.

I experimented a couple of years ago with some podcast subscription sites. I just wanted to see what the big deal was, I guess. Then iTunes updated and started carrying a lot of podcast options. I looked at that a little bit as well.

Nevertheless, for purposes of this challenge, I checked out Yahoo! podcasts.

More talkshow options here. A lot of the same stuff I can get through iTunes.

I'll probably continue to keep my ipod podcast-free.

However, some of these would probably interest library users. If it weren't for a lot of racy content, a link to pages like this from Library home pages might even be a good idea.

Maps - CHALLENGE # 19

I created a map of the neighborhood I'll soon be moving into here.