Thing #22 - ListenNJ

I tried doing this on a Ref. Desk computer but had trouble because of our security. I was advised by the WebThings Challenge Committee to try doing it on PCPlus and it worked. It's a good service to our customers, and the time allotment of 10 days should be sufficient.

Thing #21 - Podcasts

I found a National Public Radio podcast on "This I believe," which are philosophies or core beliefs by famous and not-so-famous people.

Thing # 20 - YouTube

I played around with a few areas of interest and have included a vegetable musical instrument for your listening enjoyment.

Thing #19 - Web 2.0 Awards

I like Pandora. I'd never heard about it before, and it's a good way to discover artists you wouldn't get to know on your own. I like the feedback tab too. I also looked at the travel winners: farecast and realtravel, and these look like they will be useful when I plan my next trip. I usually use Yahoo travel.

Thing #18 - Web Apps

This is a great tool. It saves all of the back and forth goings-on - the attachment to this one and that one as described in the mini video - and makes editing and contributing to a document efficient. I don't currently have a project at my branch that could make use of a Web application such as this, but OCL's program brochure may be able to be done this way. An aside: Firefox wouldn't let me into Google Docs. I had to use IE.

Thing #17 - Play in the sandbox

I had trouble with this one. The instructions that were emailed to me were incongruent to what I had to do to get my comment posted. I never got the screen that asked me for a password, and I had to delete my post twice because it displayed my email address instead of my "name." During the log-in process there were times when I got 2 boxes (name and email) and times when I got one. I tried the lengthy URL first, and then the tiny URL and both sets of instructions did not apply. Did anyone test these? Aside from this, I can see the usefulness of an application like this. It saves a million emails on the same subject and having to be married to Delete.

Thing #16 - Wikis

I visited the "Library Success" wiki and will revisit it soon. I found some of the links to be very useful like the "Online training resources for librarians, Readers' Advisory, and Reference Services and Information Literacy." It's a good way to share ideas and information; but some marketing and community posts made no sense - not enough information was given. It also appears to be a work in progress with some categories housing little or no information.
I went on the OCL's article on Wikipedia, and interestingly, it gave me an abbreviated view with no ability to expand when using IE as my browser, but when I asked Jill I. about this, she said it's probably because of IE and to try Firefox, which worked. I later tried this again using IE and it worked. Why? Anyway, with regard to Sparks and his/her being magenta and not pink - I read the article and found Sparks in Trivia, noted the magenta color is referenced by footnote #28 and scrolled down to that link and clicked on it, which brought up the Sparks Tree House site.