Discovery Exercise

I chose to look at this site and loved it. Patrons looking for recipe ideas will also find it useful. Videos shown were produced by both professionals and amatuers. The viewer is encouraged to make their own favorite recipe to share.

How To Clone Planet Hollywood Chicken Crunch with Todd Wilber. I came across this video recipe quite by accident as I was exploring this web site. I found out that Demi Moore is responsible for this particular recipe herself. The video was both interesting and informative.

http://www.imcooked.com/view_video.php?viewkey=892fbfd1c5a5b457e577

Zoho Writer

I'm a first time users, but this looks like fun, so I tried it out. Tomorrow I start my vacation so this is going to be short and sweet, but this site is definitely one I plan on revisiting. Saturday I leave for a seven day cruise on Royal Caribbean from the port of Miami and I can't wait! I posted this from Zoho Writer. That was easy to do, but some of the pictures disappeared and I had to edit.

The Ship

Ports of Call

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Philipsburg, St. Maarten

Labadee, Haiti

PBCLS Wiki

I found this exercise easy and fun to do. I enjoyed looking at everyones favorites, and will be checking back often for updates. I added two of my favorite special occasions restaurants. Discovered quite by accident that only one person can edit at a time. Our site contained an exclusive edit lock that was effective for 5 minutes and then became stealable. Could be fun, or extremely annoying!

http://www.taboorestaurant.com/

http://www.stationrestaurants.com/

Wikis

I explored several of the Wikis posted for this exercise and found several that didn't quite fit the definition of a Wiki, a database of pages which vistors can edit.



A few of the ones I viewed could only be updated by librarians. If only a select few can edit and add information doesn't the site become just another informational website?

Web 2.0...What it means to me

I hear web 2.0 and think of a huge array of sometimes complex, continually evolving web applications that combine social networking with information sharing.

Technorati

PBCLS Home page was ranked 319,173 when I first signed on. It had an Authority of 33, the number of blogs linking to a website in the last six months. I was pleasantly surprised to find people who didn't even live in Florida, yet alone Palm Beach County, had found, used, and tagged PBCLS web services.
Lisa, and ESL teacher, from San Franciso included "Mousing Skills" tutorials www.pbclibrary.org/mousing on her blog. She obviously found it useful enough to share. She listed several other sites which would be helpful for those learning English as a second language. Though this was also an interesting site I'm afraid I wouldn't use.

Del.icio.us

Like many other sites on the Internet, I have never used del.icio.us before. I like the idea of favorites with potability, but I'm not sure I'd actually use it. It does however have unlimited potential for all areas of librarianship.

Webfeet

I looked up Cooperstown New York and discovered a store I never heard of before for baseball lovers.

LibraryThing

This looks helpful, if I'd remember to use it.

Image Generators

Discovered a lot of cool free stuff. It was fun exploring everything!

Bloglines

This was easier than I thought it would be, but I'm not sure how useful I'll find it in the future.