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Thing 23 - Final Thoughts

I have enjoyed taking part in the 23 Things training. There are several things I found during the training that I will continue to use. I go to my igoogle page regularly and enjoy reading the articles on my google reader. Everyone should sign up for the Boing Boing feed. It's great. I was happy to have a reason to revisit Pandora radio and will keep listening to my Bowling For Soup station I set up. I love Library Thing and would like to say I will use it to keep a record of what I read, but I will likely keep using my notebook I've had for years instead. Even though I will never listen to an audio book, I'm glad I went through the process of downloading one so I will have firsthand knowledge of what our customers are experiencing.

Some of things I did were fun, but not something I would ever use again. While my meez is almost as good looking as the real me, I can't see ever using him in real life. I still don't see the use for a Rollyo search and don't bookmark enough to have a need for del.icio.us. Still, I am happy to have had the experience with using them.

I think my favorite part of the process has been reading the blogs of my coworkers. It is always helpful to read of other's experiences. I always learn something new from that. I just don't like discovering that my blog was much more boring than other people's, but I believe I did mention the likelihood of boring posts when I began, so you were warned.

I would definitely take part in another training like this if offered. I enjoy the independent learning because I can even do it when I am in jail.

A new song about librarians

http://addywillknow.pbwiki.com/

Overdrive, Netlibrary, etc.

I have never listend to an entire audio book. I even had trouble with the Stephen King audio release, Blood and Smoke, and I am a huge King fan. So, I doubt I will make it through the title I download, but I will try.

At Dennis'recommendation, I went straight to Netlibrary. I was able to find a title of interest in the horror section and check it out. Unfortunately, I was told I didn't have enough space on my computer at Miller to download the book. I will try again from home and report back.

EDIT: Book downloaded successfully.

Podcasts

Of the three search tools listed, I liked podcastalley the best. Very easy to use and the easiest one to use to subscribe via my Google Reader. I subscribed to Libvibe and SimonSays, a Simon and Schuster poscast with author interviews. I like the idea of podcasts and can see how they can be useful, I'm just afraid I am not patient enough to listen to one unless it grabs my attention from the beginning. If I see a podcast is longer than 5 minutes, I won't even attempt to listen. I guess I have a short attention span.

Flickr revisted

I recently spent a week in NYC. If you are bored enough to look at my vacation photos they are here:

www.flickr.com/photos/jalansimpson

Zoho revisited

 

This is a post written on Zoho.  Last time I tried Zoho I had trouble getting to the site.  Normally, I would not have come back and just been happy with google docs but then I received a comment from someone at Zoho asking me to try again.  Everything worked fine this time and it seems easy to use.