Beyond 23 Things

I have done a few things beyond 23 but didn't post about it. I went to Zamar created a link and converted a YouTube video to save my hard drive. I found it fairly easy and had no problems. The converted video went to my email quickly. Wish I had known about it sooner.

Library 2.0

I've finished all 23 things. It has been quite an experience learning things I didn't know it existed on the Internet. I now use bloglines every day for the news instead of looking at different news sites. Widgets are great. I think I had the most fun with the widgets deciding the ones I wanted on my blog. I will definitely use ebooks since I've already downloaded one book from our website. Some of the videos are so cute with the kids and animals. Library Thing will help me to remember the books I've read. I will go on to the other things because I want to learn more about the videos. I've created a few but can't get them to show up on my blog.

NetLibrary

Thing 22 has been a challenge. It took me several attempts to figure out how to create an account. I went through the PLYMC link. When I clicked on NetLibrary the top of my screen said to ask your library how to create an account. I clicked on enter under Libraries and watched the demo and there was no tab on the top of the page to Create an Account. There is a place to create an account under Order. You can search without an account to see what is in the library. I think I'll save creating an account for another day. I downloaded an ebook from PLYMC's website. It was much more user friendly.

Video

I created a video from pictures and added music to it to add to my blog. The video works when I preview it on the posting window but no video is in my blog. Just that box with an X in it. Maybe I'll figure out what is wrong. The first time I forgot to save the video to mpeg. It took a long time to upload. Maybe it's the size of the file.

Podcasts

I listened to podcasts on Yahoo Podcasts since I already had Yahoo Music Jukebox. It was very easy for me to download and add podcasts to Yahoo Music Jukebox. A person could listen for hours. There are a wide variety of topics also.

YouTube and other videos

There are just too many videos out there. I looked at videos for hours. I finally found one I liked on Google videos. Wait until Jazzlady finds out there is a video on meerkats.

Social Music

For thing 19 I explored last.fm. Last.fm is a social music website. I signed up but didn't download the software yet or create any playlist.

ZOHO Writer

I'm in Zoho Writer and learned to add an emotional icon.  I can see how the online docs could be of use to people that travel. All these things on the internet I didn't know about until Library 2.0. I checked out the Template Library and added a recipe card template to my templates. Something I may find useful.

Docs and Spreadsheets Online

Created a short doc in Google Docs and Spreadsheets to send to my blog. Also created a doc in Zoho Writer. I found both sites easy to work with and no problems sending the docs to my blog spot.

I'm creating this doc in Google Docs & Spreadsheets to add to my blog. Now if I can just remember how to add it to the blog.