Who you callin' a Tube?

I've been a fan of YouTube for quite some time. My finance' and I look for hilarious videos, scary videos, UFC fights, Rock Band images you name it, all the time. I love YouTube because not only does it give everyone the ability to be a star (which sometimes can be not so good....lol) but also you can find things that you had seen years ago. I love that you can share something you find, it's nice to be able to send videos to family and friends throughout the country and overseas. :) It's a great way to keep in touch, but with even newer things like Skype and oovoo, technology is just getting better and better!

One of my favorite YouTube stars is this guy. Chris and I are "Rock$tar$" in our own, tackling Rock Band and Rock Band 2.....but nothing/no one can hang with this guy. Plus his video abilities are unmatched. :) I wanna grow up to be like this guy.

I have the POWER!

K, so I checked out the Power Tools page. First, I'm so creating a Gmail account for myself....but I played around with StumbleUpon. Um, hello, LOVE THIS! I typed in "funny" and "stumbled" across many different amusing things. Who doesn't need a good laugh? Why else do I love this? I didn't need to create an account to play around on it!! :) Don't get me wrong, I love all the things we are trying, but my lists of email/passwords is growing. :)

Anyways, ha ha, check out this llama I found on there!! :)

And the award goes to...............

So I checked out the first place winner for the "search" catagory considering I was "searching" for something to explore. The winnder was "Tweetscan", I didn't realize this was in cahoots with Twitter. How fun! I found it interesting to search for a topic (I did gaming of course) in Tweetscan and you can see what the buzz is going on about what you've searched. It's cool to see so many different people's points of view on a subject, and almost at right that moment, I think the top one said "posted less than 5 seconds ago." I'm still trying to use Twitter itself on a more frequent basis, to keep in touch with those that I don't see often and now I'm seeing it in an even better light. :) I'm changing my tune a bit about Twitter, it's nice to just pop in a note every now and then instead of a long drawn out blog or email if you want to say something on your mind really quick. And better than texting, cause well, I will soon develop "text thumb" if I'm not careful. lol

Doc-umentary

OMG! Google Docs does Rock! I am so excited that Google has these applications! Friends have told me about online word processors and so forth, but I had yet to find one. This is extremely helpful to me as a college student. Previously, I was forced, yes I mean FORCED, into doing a "team" project with another student in a class I was taking. It just turned out to be a nightmare with trying to coordinate a presentation with someone that lived over an hour away from me. Long story short.....it was back and forth with emails, the correct presentation was overwritten, and my partner was calling me at like 11:30 the night before wanting me to meet up with her. If I would have had Google Docs at the time, life would have been much simpler.

I think this could help the library immensely! Last year I attended a conference with another staff member and this would have been a great way to take a look at the presentation instead of just emailing it back and forth with updates and changes and having to save drafts and blah blah, we all know the song. It was a great presentation, but the beginning work could have been a lot simpler with the help of Google Docs.

Rock on Google Docs, Rock on.

My head's out of the sand.

So the PBWiki wasn't a scary as I thought! I surprised myself by finding it so easy to navigate, edit and post! I really think that this is more of a "one stop shop" to find everyone's blogs and interests. I checked out the Favorite Restaurants as well....sad to say I haven't been to many of everyone's favorites, I'm usually pretty reluctant with food. If I know something's good, I stick with it. But, by seeing what friend's and co-workers have enjoyed, might help me to take the adventure. :) Or maybe not, chicken wings just kick butt. :) Yum-O!