Podcasts

Finally a term I've experiences previously. My family are HUGE Harry Potter book fans. We have mugglenet bookmarked at home and when they started doing podcasts we started listening. My partner and I also listen to manic mommies. Had fun searching the list of podcasts and ended up subcribing to a few of them - one on student financial aid (almost time to do the college searching for me and my oldest) and another on rollar coaster fanatics. It was simple to add a podcast to my bloglines account. I'll save the treat of listening in when I'm at home.

RSS is superb

By far, I love the RSS feature. I added all the newspapers and radio newsfeeds and a few ad hoc addresses to my blogsline account. Makes it so easy to keep up. I would think this would be an easily transferable feature for libraries. They could look up topics they wanted to stay on top of and have the information come to them. I will use this feature at home daily. And I want to show my kids how to use it so they too can keep up with the latest on areas that are of interest to them. Excellent tool!!!

A taste for wikis

The concept of having a webpage that can be edited by everyone who comes across it seems a bit strange to me. I grew up in a time where someone was always the responsible party. But having viewed several wikis - like the ones for conferences or for community services it makes so much sense to allow all users to add, delete and edit information. And it is exciting to think how up-to-date wikis can be. My favorite piece of knowledge was that the word wiki is borrowed from the Hawaiian language. As a mother of a child named after a Hawaiian island that language is dear to my heart.