YouTube

I love YouTube and visit the site regularly. Not for education, enlightenment or self-improvement but for pure entertainment! My favorite is Bollywood musical clips but I also visit other music sites. I've had an account for awhile now and quite a collection of favorites.
I've enbeded a YouTube video and a "Circulation Wizard" into my blog. This is really fun.

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LibraryThing

LibraryThing is truly a place I will revisit often. What I thought was great about the website was the ability to find other users with common interest in books that I'd enjoy. The feature, "Interesting Libraries", will unable me to find a user whose tastes match mine, and see what else they recommend, or are reading. An easy way to find a good read. I'm not ready to find my reading "soul mate" yet.
Adding the"LibraryThing" widget to my blog wasn't easy to figure out. There's an assumption that you already have a 2.0 vocabulary. I also noticed that looking up titles, authors, etc. was a lot faster on "LibrayThing" than "KitKat" All in all, a great intro to something that can hold my interest.

Flickr

Here's a site that can occupy your time and imagination. I searched "Costa Rica" and got 420thousand hits. I've been to Costa Rica 5 times and taken a million pictures. They are on my personal computer under files labeled by date. It's a cumbersome filing system. I can see where tagging and grouping could come in handy. It would be fun to make a grouping of "the best of" my experiences in CR. I'm still just a lurker on Flickr, no account for me yet.

Pod Casts

Searching around for something interesting to watch on Podcast. Asked my son for some ideas, he recommended Digg.com. There's a tab to just view podcasts, many catagories. I checked out a few, but they're not what I'd call work related. http://digg.com/podcasts/Diggnation/579147 Here's a link if you wanna check out Digg.

RSS Thoughts

Wow, all this is info is overwhelming. I've never desired to be connected to strangers but it feels OK to lurk around, tagging people more interesting than myself. I've asked my 20-something son a few questions about 2.0 and he seems to already be living, breathing, existing on the web in all the nooks and crannies. Now the rss feeds are a new concept. I've always gotten up in morning and listened to the news, amazed that nothing went on all night long on the other side of the world. Not True! Now I can get the info I need. But will I log on while having my morning coffee? Iv'e gotten feeds to a few sites, (all the assigned sites) but I wonder if I will revisit them or how I might manage my time on the web.

del.icio.us

Have recently registered with del.icio.us. It looks like endless entertainment but I haven't thought of any KRL uses as of yet. I really like the idea of the "tags" to ease the legwork of exploring the net for my personal interests.