the end

This is my last entry for the ACL Learning 2.0 thing. How sad! I have totally enjoyed doing all of this: making a blog and discovering all these cool things you can do on the Internet - things I would never have thought of doing on my own, and some things that I wouldn't've even thought I could do! I am no computer geek but with Web 2.0 even a techno-spaz like me can do cool online stuff. Oh! The possibilities! Thank you, 23 Things. And thank you, fans!

Net Library

As much as I try to fight the robots taking over ("books will never become obsolete!" etc etc) the digital book reader looks pretty cool and I have heard from actual people that it's really quite a neat little toy. It's not nearly as bad as reading 'War and Peace' on your PC (my eyes! my eyes!) and for sheer convenience I can see its value. People actually become really attached to little machines (mobile phones, i-pods, laptops, blackberries, etc etc) as well as books. It's an interesting development, and we should probably just resign ourselves to the digitization of everything, eventually. Net Library looks really cool, and a surprising range of classic and new titles. A great tool for students, geeks and stingy people.

podcasts

Podcasts are great. I usually listen to ones off the Guardian website or the Radio NZ website. I subscribed to Rock and Roll Librarian (bit of a misnomer if you ask me!) on my Bloglines account, mostly because I felt sorry for the guy. There are so many podcasts about libraries but most of them are too personal or too American and didn't seem particularly relevant to me! But I like that there is information on the Interestingnet in all different forms, including audio.

YouTube

One of my favourite sites ever. I never look at any other video sites. It's great for watching music videos (I particularly like looking at stuff from Flight of the Conchords). For librarians, those Web 2.0 instructional videos are quite good. What else would librarians use YouTube for? Hmmmm... staying cool? Understanding the youth of today??

Flight of the Conchords - French song (Foux De Fa Fa)

I love these guys! Learn French and laugh at the same time!

Web 2.0 awards list

Like, wow, man. So many things to do! It's neat having awards for these Web 2.0 tools, then we can find the best of the best. But there is still a lot of dumb stuff too. My favourite site from the Web 2.0 Awards is Ning where you can create your own social networking site! It won first prize in the Mashups category. This is amazing. Imagine creating your own network! Goodbye Facebook! Goodbye MySpace! Goodbye Yahoo Groups! Goodbye Bebo! Hello Ning!

Google Docs

Here's a document I made on how to play roller derby. Google Docs and Zoho Writer are useful tools but don't quite work as smoothly as a boring old Word document. And the documents aren't nearly as appealing as a blog or a wiki for sharing stuff, but for serious work I can see the advantages of using this.

ACL rockin' the house

Oh yeah! Check out the link I made to ACL's Bebo page via the pb wiki. We have such diverse and fantastic taste, non?

I put my blog in the favourite blogs, because it is my favourite blog! Blog blog blog. What a lovely word.

places to make wikis

pb wiki
wet paint
wiki spaces

wiki wiki, I'm getting jiggy

This video about wikis rules! I love a bit of old-skool cut and paste. I wish my computer had a giant hand and a silly voice and all the buttons were made of paper....

Web junction is neato! This is more like what libraries are about these days. What a handy resource, and such a friendly-looking page too. It would be good to have this on one's favourites on one's work computer for quick reference. I mean, wiki-reference. Hoo-rah!

I'm a book lover too - this site is a-ok! There must be a million of these kinds of sites, but this one is particularly easy on the brain. This would be ideal for bookworms (or 'worms' for short) when looking for new books. When the 'worm' comes into the library looking for new authors, or books which are similar to something else they've read, we can look at this site. Brilliant!

This site looks like Wikipedia, it tastes like Wikipedia, it smells like Wikipedia, but it is not Wikipedia and it's weirding me out.