22 Downloadable Audio

Thank you Howard County Library -- the MP3 player was loaded up with books and went to Italy with me -- 10 books weighing .3 oz, sounds cool right? I am really really bad at remembering to charge things -- my cell phone is dead more often then live. So of course there was that problem when it died on the beach ... Much better headphones are needed then earbuds on planes -- I had forgotten how loud airplanes are, but I did finish a major chunk of "Thursday Next - First Among Sequels". Back to the beach thing, I like to listen to the ocean and read, that is not the same as listening to a book and listening to the ocean which does not work nearly as well. Then there is the conversation thing, not the heavy duty kind, but the desultory kind you can have while reading that you do not hear with earbuds in your head. And my ears hurt.

OK.. a little off track .. what was I supposed to be writing about? Thanks to John Jewitt for the secret of the little thingie you needed to change to make your mp3 player actually play audio books. I was supposed to read the manual -- hah!

21 Podcasts Podcast.com

Yahoo is closing down its' podcast site on October 31st-- whats up with that??

searched on podcast.com and found the podcast site of the Denver Public Library. There are some really good children's stories recorded on there -- and that got me thinking -- hmmm.... Penny Theater , LapTheatres, some one else reading -- it's good to change it up in a program
Podcast.com

Wow! Denver Public Library has the most amazing Children's Site -- check this out -- I am sooo jealous --- just out my bloglines on the sidebar for the RSS feed

Yahoo! apologizes deeply, but we will be closing down the Podcasts site on Oct. 31, 2007

20 from YouTube Coton de Tulear - Jerry goes mad

totally like bathtime at my house times 2

Is there anyone left on the planet NOT familiar with YouTube --- even my totally computerless parents have viewed at others houses or heard references

I would LOVE to see little YouTube videos of the Ready by Five, or shorts from the some of the hysterical Children's Specials --- but there's that only takes pictures of feet thing I still haven't shaken --- technology is no substitute for talent

19 Widgets

For those who have become overwhelmed by the technical jargon of 22Things, a widget is just a thingie that you can add to an on-line presence (blog, website, whatever). There, that helped a lot, I'm sure.

I tried the three award winning widget sites, and my winner is SpringWidgets. How did I judge? I typed the word literature into the search box and this is the only site that had any literature widgets. I have added a wonderful quote site as a widget Check out "The Downer's Blog"

18 Zoho and web based word processing

This is written in Zoho which seems to be a full featured online word processor. Does the world need one more editor, I don't know but this is a very decent one.

This is written by editing the post after publishing as I was not sure how successful this would be.
We are having fun now

17 The Sandbox

See Cotonmom's Favorite Things which are, unsurprisingly, Coton's

16 Wikis - Why I love Wikipedia

Need a list of the Midsomer Murders in Episode order - see Wikipedia. Need a list of just about every book series, TV series, Film a patron -- yes yes customer --- asks about -- there it is. Just like every other source the more you already know about the subject the less a wiki is for you, but for getting up and running someone has something out there --
Library Instruction Wiki - Stop reinventing the wheel
I really like the openness of this site, makes it handy as a reference. And the idea of 2.0 in 15 minutes a day is good for a laugh -- OK it was my choice to spend 45 minutes investigating Squidoo
but I'm just saying .....