Podcasts

I subscribed to the NPR podcast for my Bloglines account. It was pretty easy following the directions given and now I'm glad to know how to do this for any others I may like. When I chose some podcasts from it, for some reason I was expecting there to be video too but then realized we are only talking about audio.

I think it's great that libraries are using these. I have a blind friend who uses a laptop with a special device that gives an audio of everything on a page of a website so that he can know what's on there. It would certainly help someone like this, who relies so much on audio, to have podcasts on there with information on what's available, what events are coming or even podcasts of programs that have already occurred.

I like the stories for children too. Certainly would help a busy mother who can't get to the library at times for a story hour. Just today I was fiddling around for the longest time with our old tape player trying to put in a story for my daughter who's sick today.

MySpace and Facebook

I looked at most of the library links that were listed for MySpace and Facebook. I liked that Oshkosh PL put the hours etc. right on there. I don't know quite what I'm looking at at first without guides like that, but I'm not sure it works so well in general for a library to try to act like it's a person with certain "interests" and "friends". It just doesn't seem like the right format for the library to me.
If someone is savvy enough to use these networking sites it seems like they would know that libraries have websites. I'd rather energy was put into making our library website more appealing.

Remember the Milk and Jott

Remember the Milk and Jott were fun to use. It was cool to see the messages turn up on the list and it's interesting how the two work together (like Google Talk and Meebo work together and Google Docs and word documents work together). The Jott recordings became a little jumbled at first. It even sounded impatient when not getting what was asked for. I kept at it and my message went through. I think that's what I'm learning about all this technology, to keep at it. I suppose I could use this as my to do list at work. (Now I have little jotted notes scattered around my drawer.)