Re: Sweet Music

47.) JamStudio–I have all the natural music talent of …ah …something that is not talented musically and isn’t good with similes, but I absolutely LOVED JamStudio. JamStudio is a website that allows you to create songs on-line using computer-generated chords and instruments. It’s billed as being for musicians, but I, a non-musician, was completely taken [...]

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Re: World Domination–I Wants It

46.) It’s been two years since Helene Blowers of the Public Library of Charlotte-Mecklenberg Counties put together a handy self-study guide to Web 2.0 applications for the librarians at her place of work. Since then, this tutorial has burned a path across the English-speaking library world like a comet. But like the real world, the [...]

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Re: Learning 2.1–Full Ahead and Darn the Torpedos

Once again, your intrepid heroine finds herself cruising dangerous waters of the Pierian spring …..
42.) Google Groups and Usenet–a blast from the past, but I prefer listservs.
43.) Midi files–not really useful unless you are a musician.
44.) Jott.com–Interesting. I can see this service being useful to people who are on the road a lot, have a [...]

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Re: Learning 2.1–Just Like That But Different

In which our journey of enlightment continues.
#37.) Pandora and LastFM–I can see where these two services would be of interest to acquisitions librarians or people doing listeners’ advisory. Basically, both websites allow you to type in the names of groups or musicians and then the site pulls up music that is similar in style. [...]

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Re: Learning 2.1–You Ought to Be in Pictures

#36.) On-line photo editing software–The beauty of photo editing software is that it can turn a so-so photo into a work of art. I was really happy with Piknik which I found very intuitive and easy to use. Below is an example of one of my photos that I was able to alter in [...]

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Re: Learning 2.1–Ain’t It Tweet

What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.
–Captain, Road Prison 36, “Cool Hand Luke”
#35.) Twitter and Jaiku–Maybe I’m revealing my age, but I just don’t get the point of text messaging. I’ve checked out the websites, taken a look at the sample feeds, even read Jaiku founder Jyri Engstrom’s talk on cell phones and [...]

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Re: Learning 2.1–Get Fit While You Sit

In this exciting episode, our valiant heroine learns about on-line fitness tools.
#34.) FitDay and Nutridiary are on-line versions of the food/exercise journals experts often recommend you keep if you are trying to lose weight and/or up your exercise level. Some people can make these work for them. I, on the other hand, keep [...]

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Re: Further Adventures in Learning 2.1

I continue to plod along with Learning 2.1. My impressions so far:
#29.) I enjoyed Scrapblog although I think of it more as a fun site than a useful one. Be advised that while the templates are simple to use and text, photos, and clip art load easily, audio and video clips take forever to boot up. I suspect [...]

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Re: Learning 2.1–The Adventure Continues

Captain’s log, stardate 100107: These are the voyages of the Starship Method. Our mission: to explore new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.
Feel free to start humming the Star Trek theme song now. No, not this one.
Learning 2.0 has a sequel–Learning 2. [...]

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