Oh, screw it. I can't come up with a witty title...

...about Podcasting. Although I did find a podcast I'm super excited about! The Poetry Foundation has a podcast of poets reading their poetry and discussing them. Hopefully Matthew is reading this because this might be good for his Poetry Discussion Group at Wellington.

I added it to bloglines, because the exercise said to, but honestly bloglines is not for me. I will be adding it to my iTunes at home though.

Web 2.0 Award winners

This was a fun list to look through. Two special favorites are imcooked and guess-the-google.

Guess the Google is a game built on a google image aggregator. It presents a montage of google image results and asks you to guess what the search term was that led to them. It's a good brain exercise if nothing else and highlights some of the fun "unintended" results of Web 2.0 technology and its evolution.

Im cooked is a subject specific content collection of user made cooking shows! This is so great for someone like me who sometimes doesn't quite "get" the instructions in a recipe and could benefit from seeing exactly what poaching an egg looks like. In addition to simple cooking processes like these there are lots of entire recipes demonstrated, in cooking show style, with youtube-ish production values. It's fun to poke around in if you're a foodie.

Sara also had a super cool idea while doing her 23 things assignment this week. She suggested the library have a contest to make a song and a video promoting the library to appear on our myspace page! I love it. I suggested she pitch it to Nicole, who seems to really be looking for people's feedback and ideas on how to improve things.

Bloglines

So as per my next exercise I sign up for bloglines. I haven't signed up for this many online services in this short a time period since... ever! I am sometimes a little skeptical of adopting every new online service. I like to keep abreast of what is out there, but I usually wait to sign up for things until there is a little more polish in place, unlike my friend Boz, who is a huge early adopter. He flicks, he tweets, he tumbls--he's the real things ladies and gentlemen.

In any case, regarding RSS and bloglines I created a public blogroll, which I need to show Sara, I know she's going to love Pop Goes the Library. It seems like there are some interesting things to learn out there and RSS should make it much more manageable to attempt to keep up with all this bleeding edge information.

I usually try to manage this by creating a heavily weeded collection of links in my favorites (If I haven't loved it in a month it goes!). I'm interested to see what del.icio.us is about, as this seems like it would be really up my alley. I think that's coming up in a future week.

Librablog

Library blogs would be a fun way of letting patrons know what we are working on (as far as upcoming features, new releases, exciting programs) though we wouldn't want to devolve into splogging (spam blogging, where the blog is merely adversiting).

It's an exciting time for technology and the library.