Sunday, December 2, 2007
#23 That's all folks
Friday, November 30, 2007
#20 YouTube Zorba the Greek Yolngu style
Where is Conan the Librarian when you need him? I thoroughly enjoyed having another look around YouTube. There's an enormous amount of material here. The recent Federal election showed that politicians were aware of the enormous influence of YouTube in popular culture (and also that the art of political satire is alive and well). Check out the ABC's Unleashed site for their poll of the most popular election videos.
While on YouTube I had a look at some of my favorites including the weird and wonderful Kransky sisters, also the mad antics in my favourite bookshop with Bernard and Manny of Black Books.
It was hard to choose just one to share but I decided on the wonderful Yoglnu Dance Troupe and their version of Zorba the Greek. It's been an enormous hit on YouTube and the dancers have been invited to a Canberra arts festival on the strength of it. Enjoy!
Thursday, November 29, 2007
#22 Audiobooks or "The end is in sight"
Very interesting to have a look at what's happening in the world of audiobooks and the potential for libraries to offer this service via internet downloads. The World eBook site was fun to have a play with. There's a lot of old, out-of-copyright material here and it's a great resource for this kind of thing. Lots of literary classics - Sherlock Holmes, Shakespeare sonnets, some obscure sci-fi from Baen books. I had a listen to some of The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, some Andrew Marvell and Edgar Allan Poe. However, as is always the case with audiobooks the quality and style of the reader are very important.It's also interesting to see what's happening with Project Gutenberg.
#21 Podcasts, Smodcasts
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Posting from Zoho Pt.2
#18 Posting from Zoho
1.FEAR I can't do this. It's for IT specialists and anime fans.
2.CONFIDENCE Hey, it's easy. I might start 2 or 3 of these.
3.DISMAY I didn't mean that to happen. How do I edit that post? There's bits missing. Oh-no, is it something to with HTML?
4.OBSESSION I just have to keep tinkering with this until i get it right. I need to add this widget and how about a whole new template because i hate this colour-scheme and i think i'll just look at this blog and this blog and this blog....
5.PARANOIA No-one will ever bother to read this. I'm not sure they should. What a waste of time.
6.ACCEPTANCE Hey, it's not so bad after all. It's starting to look like a real one.
RELATED TERMS:
bloggus interruptus: The phone rang before i finished my post.
blogtired: Time to take a break.
blogjam: 1.Reading too many blogs at one time.
2.Nice with toast.
Technorati Tags zoho,blogs
#18 Online Productivity Tools
Let's see how i go posting to my blog.