#26 Making Music

I have looked at some of the music sites, facebook and friedster could not be viewed without setting up an account. I did look into MOG, which offered a few different items such as: browse moggers, top post w/songs, top post w/music videos, and daily picks. I also checked out Phling where you can stream your music from your pc to your phone, share music w/friends and listen to their music, find out who is listening to what, etc. I found both of those sites to be of interested to younger people. The site that did catch my interest was project Playlist. What really attracted me the most to the site was the fact that you could actually add a song from your playlist to your blog. I am going to try that at a later date when I have more time. I did enjoy creating a playlist of songs, in fact I have created a list of songs that are some of my husband and my songs and I have emailed them to him.

This excersise for me has been fantastic, because I love music and did not know that all of these different sites where available. Thank you a bunch!!!

#25 Music Pirate

Yes, I have to confess I have burned music a few times before, but have always been concerned about whether or not it was legal. This exersise has helped by letting me know about legal sites and explanation of the laws. I will now have some comfort when burning music, a big thank you!

I am sort of torned about whether musicans benefit more from strict copy right protection or from open sharing. I think on one hand it helps them to get their music out to a wide range of people, but on the other hand they may not get as many people buying their music when they can listen to it free or burn it to a CD.

#24 The Sound of Music

First of all let me begin by saying "It's GREAT to be back"!!! After looking at the different pay sites I found them all to be very similar in features, but found Yahoo to be more user friendly. With the help of my grand -daughter (who is only 8 yrs. old) I was able to download a song to her MP3 player, she loves Taylor Swift! I was really amazed to find out that you can actually listen live to one of your favorite radio stations via my computer. One of my favorite stations just so happens to be KILT 100.3 and it was very easy just clicking on the "Listen Live" and WOW there it was. Some of the other stations I had some difficulty with, such as KRBE and KUHF.

WK. 10: #23 END/BEGINNING

Unbelievable....... what a fantastic learning experience this has been!!! I have been able to explore things that I never knew where out there. I must admit in the beginning I was concerned that I would not be able to make it through all 23 things, but each week I looked forward to the next discovery. WOW, what a amazing ride it has been!!!

I think my favorite discovery was of creating a blog. I had no idea that it could be so easy and fun. I also enjoy flickr, in fact I have been doing alot of picture taking and I also loved creating my avatar. In fact she is now included in all my emails. AND........I am not sure how I lived without finding feeds.

Thank you for this great oppurtunity to learn and have FUN!

#22 Downloadable Media

I have explored Wowio, Librivox, and HCPL. I think each of these has something to offer to the public. I liked the fact that Wowio had the top books category and the book of the month and I thought that Librivox had one up on them because of the Record Chapters that is kind of neat. I thought it would be a wonderful idea for parents to be able to record their voice for their children to listen to (on children's book). I still think HCPL is the BEST because it is so user friendly. I like how all of the categories are broken down(audio, books, music. video, etc.). I also like the fact that when someone is checking out the site for the first time it has the tour, borrowing policies, and compatible devices. Another neat feature is the "first time digital media" button. I found that to be very helpful.

#21 Podcasts

http://www.trans4mind.com/metamorphosis-podcast.xml This podcast info. I found to be very interesting and uplifting. I have added this feed to my blogline account. I found many more that I will add at a later date. This is something very new to me and I hope to explore more. I did explore a little of the NYTimes.com book review. I like how they have a new book to look at daily. I explored some other book reviews, one I enjoyed is http://rachelsreviews.libsyn.com/rss I have listed some of her book reviews in the side column.

Wk. 9: #20 YouTube

A fun place to explore and view video's of interest and a great place to catch up on new events that you might have missed. One thing that I did not care for was some of the comments and responses used are offensive. I suppose that is to be expected. Everyone has a right to his/her opinion.

I love music, therefore I chose a music video to view. I adore Josh Groban the singer, my favorite song of all time is "Somewhere over the Rainbow", and my favorite movie of all time is the "Wizard of Oz". I was amazed that I was able to find all 3 in one video. The video is called "Josh Groban - Somewhere over the Rainbow". I loved how they had many scenes from the movie as a back drop behind the two singers. Another, one I checked out briefly was the Pet & Animal. I loved the Cat Talking! I have an indoor cat and a outdoor cat and they chat to each other through the window in the exact same way.