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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Thing 33: Travel 2.0

I really liked this thing mainly because I found a lot of helpful and interesting sites. I checked out a few travel blogs but really loved My Kugelhof which was really interesting; had a great layout and interesting posts. I liked looking at Igougo where I found a few places that I would want to go. Finally, I really liked the Green Routes Mashup of local favorites in our area. In all I found many of these sites interesting and it really shows the way travel is going and how it is not just travel books any more.


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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Thing 32: Google Maps and Mashups

Creating your own map in Google maps was fun but hard. I hope to make one of popular destinations in my town because I am terrible at directions and being able to has a resource that would create quick directions would be interesting. Also, I know on our event page for our library we have local links or websites to look at but to also have a Google map of the important buildings in our area like city hall or the DMV that people may need to use but don't know where they are especially if they are new in town. I did look at some of the mashups that where created and thought several of them were very helpful. Like one showed all the subways stops in London so that if you were traveling to there you could figure out who to get to your destination using the subway. So, I feel that Google maps is a really great feature for people who travel or people who are new to an area.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Thing 31: More Twitter

I tried posting my favorite music onto Twitter which took some time but I finally got it figured out. I like twitter and it fits into my social networking as must as anything else; meaning I really don't do much social networking. I did add my name to the twitter directory but as I never post anything I don't think I will gain many followers. In all I find Twitter could be a really helpful and fun social networking tool for libraries especially if the tweets are interesting as well as informative. In all I find Twitter to be a helpful tool that anyone can use.

Thing 30: More Ways to Use RSS and Delicious

It was fun to look at my Google Reader and try out some new feeds. I don't have too many feeds left because if there were any that I was any feed I was really backed up on; I just dropped so I feel like filtering tools can be a great help especially if you are interested in reading blogs but only want to read the postings that interest you. I also looked at Traffic RSS feeds and added on from Denver with is where I am moving to. So, that will be fun to use when I live there. Finally, I looked at Spreed which was a really fun way to gain the news but I don't think I will be using it on a regular basis. Though I would like to be a speed reader even though I don't think that will happen. So, finally, I feel there is a lot out there to read and listen to; but only do as much as your able. Like me; some of these feed are fun to look at but a drag when I have to do use it every day.