Indian Dubstep!

India Calling : Dubstep Yaar by Dj Umb on Mixcloud

Waterfire recall from an ambulating photographer

The photographer, Jennifer Lehner, happened to catch some good fotos of Columbus' skyline at the five-months-ago Waterfire on the Mile (Columbus chapter) event that improv. jazz musicians in the collective known as the Outpost Improvisers Collective participated in by playing some music prior to the log-containing braziers being lit. I'm in one of the fotos, although you cannot tell me apart from anyone else unless i were to indicate for you.

http://jclphotography.blogspot.com/2008/07/waterfire-columbus-ohio.html

Neat

GAP commercials featuring, among other things, an orchestrated bell chime "Greensleeves/We Three Kings" mix/spoof.

Learn & Play program end(?) and summarization

I found CML's Learn & Play initiative to be a nice way of exploring the web and discovering useful Web 2.o tools while coming to work every day. It was fun to learn about these things while on the library's own clock, despite my own previous personal exploration of these services to some degree away from the library's work environs. I liked blogging the experience, as it kept a rolling log of our progress, and was an easy way of tracking said progress while simultaneously getting the participant into the habit of writing/typing about their experiences - a sort of online journaling process, if you will. Technology, utilized in the personal/social development sense that we've used it, has greatly assisted us in the work that we do, and has made it easier (and more fun?) to communicate and explore than ever!

MOLDI

The Mid-Ohio Library Digital Initiative's website, with all of its digital media available for download, seems like a great resource for avid audiobook listeners, digital mavens, and connected types who just want a bit of free digitally downloadable resources. Granted, the resources are not blockbuster movies, titles released on behemoth or indie music labels, etc., but the site does provide a number of things for free. To its credit, I would enjoy downloading any of the movies on personal travel that feature worldy destinations and enticing locales. Overall, a nice resource available to CML and its patrons.

CML's Web 2.0 Toolbox

I already utilize Google Gmail, the Firefox browser, assorted other tools, and now LibraryThing, among others, but I think that I could be assisted in many of my materials queries by adding the CML catalog search toolbar to my browser. On the face of it, this tool seems like it will prove to be a fantastic addition to my browser. I also am anxious to create my own StumbleUpon account, as I am already familiar with the site through friends' sharings with me, but have not yet set up my own account there. I think that this site pools together some great independent websites out there and lets you, well, quite literally just stumble upon them!

Discovering Web 2.0 Tools

I opted to "explore" facebook, although I really already had an established facebook account. My account lets me everything that Twitter does, plus much more. Like Twitter, you can update your "profile status", letting the world know what you're up to, or where you are; unlike Twitter, however, you can upload photos, create extensive notes, join "groups", add applications, utilize a facebook IM chat client, and much, much more. For instance, I've also signed up to use another Web 2.0 service, Last.fm (a music streaming and tagging site that allows people to "broadcast" and share info about what music they're listening to currently, as well as bios on the groups/musicians, etc.). With a facebook/Last.fm shared application, I can share the music that I'm listening to through the Last.fm software, and have this info appear on my facebook profile pages. Total integration! I confess that I am a stalwart facebook addict, and need to temper my time spent on this social networking site with actual physical activity/movement, but alas, it is a useful, if somewhat all-consuming, tool for individuals and organizations alike.

http://www.facebook.com