18. Take a look at some online productivity (word processing, spreadsheet) tools.
Please refer to my previous post…I decided to create my response to Thing 18 as a Google Doc, and then publish it to my blog. It worked, and was very easy…I had shared documents before but had never published one.
19. Explore any site from the Web 2.0 awards list, play with it and write a blog post about your findings.
I was excited to see care2 as the winner for Philanthropy…it’s a site I used to use for email, and had a social networking aspect before I had ever heard of MySpace. I also glanced at Odeo, PodShow and PodOmatic because I haven’t done much podcasting (partly due to the fact that until 4 months ago I had dial-up). However, upon exploring them, I decided that I know what I’m looking to upload (Democracy Now! and A Prairie Home Companion) and would rather find those shows individually than sift through all the tons of options on any of the podcasting sites. However, it’s good to know they are there.
The site that completely blew me away was Pandora. At the risk of sounding like a teeny-bopper, ohmygod I love it so much! You type in an artist that you like, and it creates a radio station of other similar artists. I’ve discovered about 9 new bands/artists in the past half hour! The only problem is, after about a half hour, I was at the point where I wanted a little variety. So then I created a new station! You can bookmark songs or artists that you like, and tell Pandora if you like or don’t like a song, so that it will create a station with the music you really like. The only thing I didn’t like is that when I was exploring the site, it wasn’t easy to get back to the main page with the song/artist currently playing.
I also quickly looked at YourMinis, a widget site, but as I tried putting a Weather Channel link that would give the current temperature of Darlington on my blog, I learned that WordPress is not so allowing of outside widgets. As in, I don’t think I can copy code and put it in the text widget. I’m going to try a bit more to see if I’m incorrect.
And then I decided to stop, because I could do this all day…
