Saturday, October 25, 2008

PodCasts

I had no difficulty finding an interesting podcast. I choose one on stress because I was so stressed out trying to add the RSS feed to my bloglines, but with the help of my trusted colleague, I finally was successful.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

L'Appuntamento by Ornela Vanoni

Actually, it's not the video I love so much as the accompanying song. A few weeks ago I was searching for L'Appuntamento by Ornela Vanoni (theme song to the movie Ocean's 12) and happened to find it playing on YouTube. So now whenever I want to listen to the song, I just pull it up on YouTube (and I get to watch a great video).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW-lKSD8t8E

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Bookburroinnnnng

Bookburro is really neat. I love the fact that it opens up a list of libraries, book stores and online services, and gives information about pricing and availability about any book without leaving the webpage. Now, how cool is that!

Go2Web20

I went straight to the Travel category and to Farecast, the winner in that category. Since I was just in Madrid this summer, I played around with flights to Spain. It combined many of the popular and not-so-popular travel sites and really did offer lowest pricing. I especially liked that they explain why these are great airfare deals based on science, not marketing, and give you an idea when would be the best time to buy your ticket.
Again, I'm going to check this site for my personal use, but other than showing patrons how to access the site, I don't think I'll be using it much in the library.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Dr. Google

I think Google Docs would be really great for my own personal use. I love being able to access a word-type document from anywhere and not have to use a flash/disk/CD and, yes, I can see Google Docs seriously hurting (maybe not killing) Microsoft Office. But, I honestly can't see how we would use it in the library except to help patrons.