Tech Play - Social Networking Sites

This was an easy "thing" for me as I already have a profile on Facebook, which has proven to be addicting as I reconnect with all of my high school friends ... while I don't think the world is waiting to see what I'm up to every second of every day, these sites are a terrific way to find people that I've lost touch with over the years.

Tech Play - To Do Lists

This one, while clever, is something I don't think I'll ever have occasion to use. Of the three I prefer "tadalists," found "rememberthemilk" to be too complicated, and found "thingamalist" didn't have enough interesting recipes! However, this was the easiest "thing" so far.

Tech Play - Podcasts

Now I finally understand what a podcast is! I played around with a bird site (what else?) at odeo.com and found it interesting enough that I thought I'd add it to my Google Reader ... but I could not get it to add the RSS feed ...

So - whoever wrote this week's Tech Play, could you please come up to Reference and show me what I did wrong? :)

Later PS: Gail figured out a way to add a podcast to her Google Reader, involving cutting and pasting the URL of the podcast. I tried that and it worked. Crude, but effective!

Tech Play - Downloadable Audiobooks

This one is really nifty - if the La GrangeLibrary ever signs on for audiobooks I could even see myself doing this, and I am not a big audiobook user. I particularly liked the fact that you can speed up the reader by several factors as my main gripe with audiobooks is that I can read a book much faster than I can listen to one.
I found fewer of them available for iPods than I would like, given the fact that we have an iPod.
So, I vote that we get into the next group purchase for downloadable audiobooks, but only if a good proportion of the available titles are compatible with iPods.