Podcast schmodcast

Well, what I've learned in a nutshell is that the simpler your search terms when using a podcast search website the better. The same 200 hits kept popping up when I tried to use a combination of terms to limit the number of hits. No matter what I entered as search terms. Oh well, we're all learning right? But how do they have time for all of this??

Social bookmarking

Delicious has been used in HFAR for quite a while (a year at least, maybe longer). it's a fine thing, but I never use it because it is time-consuming to search.

Yay Youtube

YAY!!! I just realized that I already learned about podcasts by doing my own video about Librarything, which I have linked to this blog. I have noticed that podcasting/Youtube is used by 12 year-old boys (mine included0 who just want to show off exactly how cool they are because they can do skateboarding stunts and beat HALO 2, as well as being used by political groups to get their message out. But, with all the junk podcasts out there I'm still not sure how you find the substantive ones.

MOLDI

O.K. I finally got a book to download onto my MP3 player, but it took forever to figure out how to do all this. It seemed necessary to dowload first to the computer hard drive and then transfer the audiobook to the MP3 player. Why can't it download directly without having to make the transfer?? the download took forever, but the transfer took less that a minute. UGH! And to top it off, I can't find the titles in my MP3 player directory. Where are those darn books?

Mytube, Youtube, we all 'Tube

I made a video with my son and we posted it to Youtube last night! WoooHooo!! In it, I talk about Librarything.com which I really like and will use frequently. I really look forward to finding all the cool options there.

Librarything

I think Librarything.com is awesome, which is saying something since I'm pretty cynical. I love it though because it serves as a place to dump my brain. All those interesting titles and authors that I've read and had worried about remembering, are now stored neatly in my little electronic library. I don't have to be responsible for them anymore. However, I need to explore I need to explore further to see if there is a way to create a "books I wanna read someday" list, so that I don't have to try to keep track of that information as well.

Image Generators

I have tried for at least an hour to get an image generator to work for me. Why is it so hard? Is it because the providers are trying to make money? If you don't purchase the image they don't want you to have it? I can't tell what the problem is.