Reflection

Well I have finished!!! While I had not used many of the technologies that this course led me to I found that some were extremely interesting and that I was missing out. This is true of the Librarything and some of the Flickr and the online image stuff. The podcasts and blogs that are out there are not something that I have had a chance to discover before and there may be some thing of interest that I will yet discover. RSS feeds and Delicious are still something that I am not sure of for me - the feeds are mainly news based and I don't take much notice of the news at the best of times.

Some of the other things look interesting and now that I have had the opportunity to look at them I will try to experiment some more.

Mashups

Not being up to speed with some things I first heard of mashups as a music thing - the joining of two songs for example being the most common. I have had some experience with this from tv I watch and friends with a bigger interest in different forms of music than I am regularly used to. As a cross media thing, I have used google maps and white/yellow pages online. I can see where they get their definition from.

With multimedia and Library/Web 2.0 technologies the Library could incorporate a number of different technologies on the web to enhance its profile or add content to the web.

Podcasts

I feel that I am probably missing out on something with podcasts but I have yet to work them out properly. Friends and family use podcasts and I have used them in my studies but I have yet to invest the time to properly investigate whether or not there is something out there of more interest to me. I had a look at Podcast alley and found some podcasts that I would look at at some stage - I like movies and tv eg and found one that relates to 'Chuck' - a great show that I watch. 'Podcast Feed For:Chuck vs. the Podcast - Enhanced AAC'. I would have to download an aggregator to watch it though so I haven't found the time to bother.

YouTube

Youtube is great for looking for songs that I haven't been able to find physically before, or that I haven't heard for years .... It is surprising what music you can find when you look, that can't be located even with the technology of Itunes :)

I also use it a lot for looking for movie trailers. I am sure that there are a lot of other uses but they are the ones that I put it to.

Occasionally I use it to find news stories or events that I missed the first time round - the opening of the Oscars for example.

Discovering Web 2.0 Tools - Geni

I have been using Geni for quite some time - it is a site that allows genealogists to add a family tree and then add to it forever, as they research. My brother initially put me onto the site, and it is mostly his work to add to the tree over time. One good thing is that if other family branches research their part of the tree, you can merge 'their bit' with yours and add years worth of research in mere seconds.

Google docs

I found this an invaluable tool when working on an assignment at CSU. I used the Google docs to create and store documents pertaining to a website that I needed to create. I was able to add documentation adding instructions to my site.

UoN PBWiki

Joined the group - awaiting permission to use. It looks like a tool that could take up a lot of time.