Music File and MP3 (Week Five)

I visited cnet download.com for free mp3s. It was easy to use the website since all the genres were listed on the left hand side in a clear easy to find spot. Clicking gives a list of subgenres and then you can see the most popular songs or search for what you want. It is very user friendly and anyone who is used to computers will not have problem using it.

Some other sites i know are 1ting.com and last.fm .

Goodreads (Week Four)

After navigating Goodreads, I came back to Reading and Reviews under our Manukau Library’s Website. I found they are very much alike in some ways; our Reading and Reviews can be called ‘Mini Goodreads’. So I think people who are using our library’s web site will definitely enjoy Goodreads, it is such a good world wide social networking for book lovers.

Twitter (Week Three)

It took a little bit longer than Zamzar to understand and use. But once had it clear in my mind, I found it more interesting.
You choose what you follow, then follow what you choose, make it more open at beginning, and adjust your Twitter Following at any time. It is a most fast and convenient way to spread information once your Twitter net is builds. It is good platform of receiving (rather than sanding) information.
The downside I found so far is there is no any filter function, after a while you may end up getting too much junk.

Zamzar (Week Two)

This is the most succinct website we have ever had since we started the web 2.0 training.
Simple as 123, free, no sign up, without downloading software, the only thing you need is an e-mail address, you can convert file to whatever format you want. Next time when customers have any problems to open file from their own USB drive because of formatting, we can try Zamzar!
Sounds too good?
Want more? you have to pay if
Ø File is big
Ø You want to storage you file more than 24 hours
Ø You want fast conversions

Back to my blog (Week One)

After about a year since the last post, I nearly forget about everything. Finally I am back to my blog!
I am asking myself what things have I learned from it and what I can learn from the new things except spending hours and hours on it. Hope I would find more answers after I finish the new Web 2.0 training.

last one

It has been very interesting working through all of this, and I have learned about a lot of things available on the web which I was not aware of before.
There are many tools available, many of which I was not aware of before. Many seem like they could be very useful, or at least fun.

In particular, Wikis and Video sharing, both with user generated content seem to have had a large impact on modern society. It's fun, interesting and informative, which happens to also be what libraries strive to achieve as well.

E-books

Ebooks sound like a very good idea, as it offers books to people who dont have access to the library, or people whose local libraries do not have books they would like.
It is also free, easily transferrable, compact, and convenient.

Project Gutenburg has a lot of famous texts free of charge, which I did not expect. Of course, most recent novels are copyrighted so are not available.

The downside of E-books is that the process of reading so many pages on a computer screen or similar device tires the eyes and makes it difficult to read large sections at a time. Printing it out would use a lot of paper and ink, as well as printing time, which makes it more worthwhile to just borrow/buy the actual book in my opinion.

E-books do have potential though, but I prefer ink on paper