#23 Summarize your thoughts

I enjoyed doing this program. Most of the exercises were fun and I can see some of the topics covered being of assistance at work. I was a little pushed for time and so did not "play" as much as I should have. The big downside to this program was the amount of registering that was required. Its difficult to coordinate usernames and passwords. I thought that some of the information requested for registering was intrusive, and so on principal gave incorrect information. And the biter bit, had problems remembering my misinformation.

#22 Ebooks

No doubt I am a trogladite, but I do not enjoy audio books. When I am reading fiction I enjoy immersing myself in the story and using my imagination. I find being read to, or watching a film, interupts this process and detaches me from the story as I critique the production instead of losing myself in the story However if you like audio books I can see how handy the format is, particularly in the online format.

#21 Podcast directories

Interesting. I have just done a search on Podcast.net using the keyword search terms "australia and politics and national" and came up with zero as a search result. "australia ad politics and labour" had one hit, likewise "australia ad politics and liberal". Having had such a poor result in my searching I had another look at the home page, which was not informative at all. Since the search "australia and abc" had only two results, Local radio and the Science show, it would be interesting to know how the directory locates and adds podcasts apart from volunteers.

Podcast alley had much better coverage and structure and did provide more information about who was behind the directory. Its rather alarming that the directory is maintained by just one person. Hopefully he doesn't suffer from an attack of the flu.

#20 Youtube

I had already played around with Youtube. I was a bit stunned with looking at some of the footage of sharks that was available.

One particular clip looked uncannily like an attack of a diver rather than a fish.

The biggest downside of Youtube is the wait that occurs with some clips loading. However given the strides taken with technology hopefully the situation will improve.

I did enjoy the ad from the 70s definitely more appealing than today's toilet cleaning ads.

This video is strangely fascinating, in spite of fully understanding why some people turn away.

# 19 Web 2 awards List

Well I am playing around with Wetpaint since it won an award. Give me a few days and I will give you some feedback.

# 18 Unable to publish

I thought Zoho writer had a lot of potential and will definitely make life easier. The only caveat I had was with the option to publish to blog. But I am blaming that on blogger not Zoho writer as the problem has come up before.

Surprise surprise. Google Docs had the same problem. Has anyone been able to publish to their blog. I did prefer Google Docs as a wordprocessing program to Zoho writer as it had more formatting options.

#18 Soho writer

Back to the technical. I can really see the utility of this program. I have had several nasty surprises with word documents which when saved to a memory stick and opened with another program have had the formatting corrupted, usually by having all text underscored. How did everyone go with publishing to their blog. I could not publish to my blog because the program did not recognise my user name and password, I would say this is easily the most frustrating glitch with the blog program.