Thing 19 - 2.0 Awards

Well... where to start? Wufoo for one is an amazing website that will help you create, store and organize forms, collect payments, and I don't know what else. ProjectStat.Us is another website where you can create and work on projects while allowing those for whom you're creating the project check on its status. EditGrid is a place where you and others (at different locations) can work on spreadsheets in real time. Pretty neat stuff!

Thing 18 - Google Docs

I've been using Google Docs for about a month now. I love it. I'm going to school and often need my notes to be accessible from different locations. Voila!! Google docs to the rescue!!

Thing 17 - Play in the Sandbox

I played in the sandbox. I had a hard time trying to change the font and background color. It worked only when it felt like working!! Oh well

Thing - 16 Wikis

Wikis are a great technological enhancement. It makes great sense to be able to correct and comment on an existing article.

Update: I went back to the wikis that I was directed to and looked around some more. While, a page or two, upon attempting to view, came up as "Page can't be found", I did find many interesting things to view.

I particularly enjoyed some of the book reviews. When I went on the Ocean County widi page I read some interesting stuff, but the page itself is kind of blaaa looking.

All-in-all this was a great learning experience.

Thing 15 - Library 2.0

Well...I don't claim to know a whole lot about what libararies have or should have as far as a collection or virtual collection, but I think that libraries need to move in the same direction and at the same rate (as is reasonably possible) as technology.

Many patrons are well-versed in technology advancements and expect librarians to be able to keep up with that knowledge. Technology is out there for all of us. Technology is not a foreign media; it's accessible and available to the vast majority of our patrons. Those without internet access at home can certainly come to our library and use ours...and they do.

With the internet, there should be not subject, question, or idea that can't be explored. Web 2.0 seem to be making it easier to navigate, thus enhancing and increasing learning.

Thing 12 - Net Library - WebCat

I viewed a couple of books on NetLibrary and I found the site to be easy to navigate. I saw mostly non-fiction, which is great, but I'd like to have some fiction to browse too.

Web Cat is another great site. Since I really enjoyed "The Kite Runner" I looked up "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Houssein. ...and guess what?... it's right here in our own OCL!!

Thing 10 - Technology Blog

I hate getting up in the morning. I mean I really, really hate it. I hate the sound of my alarm clock and every alarm clock I've ever had. I actually get mad at the clock for waking me.

I saw something on a technology website that caught my attention in this regard. It was a pillow that glows a soft light that get progressively brighter to wake a sleeper. When the sleeper lifts his/her head from the pillow a digital readout of the time appears.

Now I don't have any idea how it would be to sleep with a light inside my pillow and I don't know how I'd feel about being woken up by light in my face, but I'd be willing to find out more about the pillow. Right now, however its not available. I'm not sure what phase of production/testing it's in.

For now I'll continue getting angry at my alarm clock for waking me up. The funny thing is that I get even angrier at it when it fails to wake me up. Ya just can satisfy some people!