Item # 21 - Podcasts

Podcasts may be great, useful and educational, but I had a very quick look on podcast.net and did not find any of interest for me, personally. I searched for 'Rumi' poetry under the Art, Poetry - no luck. Went into the ' Mind, Body 'under the Alternative medicine and found some strange pieces of speech. Maybe I have to come back and listen again.

Definitely, podcasts have a great potential for use in the libraries. We all have very practical experience with them during our Learning 2.0 studies. I can foresee the podcasts instructions on how to use the print station, how to check the catalogue, how to reserve an item . There are many different uses for them for promoting new programs. We have a number of customers, who are visually impaired. They 'll welcome audio instructions for many different aspects of the service.

Item #20 -YouTube

Finally, I had a chance to check the YouTube. The site is blocked at my library and it took me some time to get access to it somewhere else. Yes it is great, addictive and can take hours. I am not sure how we can use it at the library today, may be as some kind of promotion material. Definitely there are a lot of people who know what they want to get from YouTube.
An interesting article was published at The Age on Thursday, October 25. The title of it was "PM down the YouTube". The author, digital marketer, Julian Cole talks about an ignorance of netiquette and importance of understanding respect for community, while putting information and commenting on it on YouTube
Yes it is another great social network web site. I am confused with the copyright issues as well. For example, if I want to make a link to my blog, is it permissible or not. Anyway I linked to Sopranos Mad TV http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFYN8loUboA