Music and Other Audio

I really liked playing around with the music sights. I think I liked IMEEM the best because it had a better selection of songs where you could listen to the full track. I also liked last.fm. What was freat about last.fm was that you could look up a specific artsit and get a bio on them along with 4-5 full tracks of their most downloaded songs. I didn't really like Pandora because you had to register to look around their site. Which really isn't that big of deal, but I like to look around and know what I'm getting myself into before I register for anything.
I thought Internet Archive was pretty interesting. Besides Audio, they also had movies, music and texts. I could read Little Women from snapshots taken of one of the 1869 original copies. That was pretty cool.
The Absolute Sound Effects Archive was pretty fun. I don't know that I would personally use it for anything, but I still liked it.
The Mango website to learn different languages sounds like a really good idea. Unfortunately I couldn't look around too much because the computer I was on needed an Adobe Flash Player upgrade and I don't have the administrator password to do it. But having such a website, where you receive language lessons for free, is really useful. My brother just paid $160 for a subscription to the Rosetta Stone program to learn Spanish. Too bad he didn't know about this website before. =)

Technorati

I must confess that I am not that into blogging, so I kept putting off lesson # 14 because I didn't think Technorati would be that thrilling to me. Well, it wasn't so bad. I liked the Percolator page better than the Popular page. Percolator seemed to have more news stories. The Popular page was just listing the most popular blogs, top searches, etc... I did find it interesting under top searches women were listed as #10. Overall, I did actually find Technorati pretty interesting.

Wikis

Before participating in Discover 2.0 the only wiki I head ever heard of was wikipedia. I had always liked wikipedia--it took a topic and thoroughly, but simply explained it. That was my rather limited view of wikis. I didn't realize how useful they could in business settings, libraries, or just among friends.
Now that my wiki knowledge has broadened (a little bit) there are other wikis that fascinate me. Such as wikibooks--they have cookbooks and recipes on there. I also enjoyed wikihow and wikitravel.

Google Docs

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=d7kw446_0f6j2htcd


OK, The only way I could figure out how to post my google doc to my blog was to publish it and paste the url. I mostly liked google docs, but I could not get the 'post to blog' button to work for me.

Cool Stuff

So I tried the blog readablity test. The first time I did it my blog read at a college level, now it's at genius level. =) I'm pretty sure it usually says either college or genius.
I also tried the sketchcast. I couldn't quite get it to work, but it was interesting watching other people's sketches.
I really liked the wordshoot. I started out at an easy level and progressed to a harder level. I think I probably played it for about 15-20 minutes.

Library Thing vs. Good Reads

OK, I think this was my favorite exercise so far. I'm constantly looking for good books to read and I had previously found Librarything to be helpful. However, after signing up for Good Reads I think I like them better. I like the fact that it was kind of like Facebook where you could invite all your friends on your email list to join. It seems a bit more interactive to me. I also like the way Good Reads lets you review your book lists and so on. I wish that Good Reads would have the recomendations like Librarything does, but overall I like Good Reads the best.

www.goodreads.com/review/list/992030

www.goodreads.com/user/show/992030

Tagging and Delicious

It took me awhile to figure out how to navigate around delicious--but once I figured it out I really like it. I can see how delicious would be an asset to many professions--like teachers and librarians. I also think it could take forever to sift through all the bookmarked websites to see which ones are actually useful. I would be totally lost. But then again I never fully realized how many millions of websites there are out there.

So, can I see the potential of delicious as a research tool? Sort of. But it is definitely a good way to bookmark your websites and access them anywhere.