CPL2.0: Twitter

Maybe I'm too old for some of this 2.0 stuff. This is the first assignment we've had that I haven't been all that excited about. I don't get twitter. I don't get the whole 140 words or less. Are the attention spans of people becoming so short that this is all they can handle? Maybe.
I did check out the library twitter accounts and I can see a use for Twitter here. Sending out alerts for programs, speakers, special events works perfectly. It's the personal twittering ( or tweeting?) I don't get. But that's just me. I know 2 people who I live with, yes, much younger then myself, who love the whole twitter craze and have jumped right on this particular band wagon.
What I can say is if I did have a twitter account, right now I would twitter that -- it's almost June and the ground is covered in snow:(

CPL2.0 -- What the heck is a LibraryThing??

Oh what fun. For all of us book nerds, LibraryThing is a true thing of beauty. For years I have tried to keep a book journal. Not very successfully. I buy myself a nice new notebook, start the year off well recording the books I have read, rating them, writing my little review. By February I am bored by the whole thing. About November I think I should update my book journal and try frantically to remember all I have read since about March.
LibraryThing practically does the whole thing for me. It's so easy to find the book you've read, give it a quick 1-5 star review, even tag it if you wish. I liked being able to easily see others who seem to have the same reading taste. It's a really easy site to use. Since I run one of the book clubs here at the branch I can see practical uses for work as well as personal.
Now if I can just remember my login, I'll be good to go!!

CPL2.0: Google Docs -- What a concept

Ok, this could not have come at a better time for me. Just last weekend my daughter was nagging me to buy Microsoft Office for our laptop so she could do her homework from there instead of the desktop. Then I come to work the next day and see our assignment. It's the answer to my bank account!! I don't have to buy anything at all. I tried out the "word" equivalent on Google Docs and it works like a charm. My child can certainly use this for typing assignments for school. And it's so easy to share these docs. I think it's the perfect thing for homework actually as you always have access to your work.
I don't know if it will ever replace the big name programs. I'm sure big corporations would want the best and the brightest. I do think however, that I have bought my last office application. It's all google docs all the time for me.
Thanks for the info!!!

Flickr and Youtube -- Entertaining...ummm yes!

Talk about a time waster.
In one of our assignments we were asked if we thought Facebook was a time waster. I don't think I spend a lot of time on that site, but Youtube??? Good grief. Just get started with something you find entertaining and you are done for. I looked up Sale and Pelletier and their gold medal skate in Salt Lake City, 2002. Not only can you see that skate, you can see every other skate they ever did, plus wedding pictures, their new baby videos, the list went on and on. I know, I know, I'm a skating nerd, but what can I say.
Flickr could be fun -- a nice place to store photos so that when your hard drive crashes and you haven't saved a single picture you haven't lost everything to computer heaven. Trust me, it could happen to you.
Both of these sites are user friendly and tons of fun. Dramatic chipmunk?? What's next?