Armed with a bit of knowledge about what Twitter is all about, share your thoughts on this fast growing online phenomenon.

Twitter - seems... very silly. The short textual bursts of conversation are hard to follow, I think it may be more useful to 'famous people' movie starts, authors, musicians - and the people who wish to be on top of the newest book, movie, or trend - like a constantly updating 'Hello' or 'People' magazine.

I can see it being useful for businesses with new products etc. It seems like one giant advertisement. "We have this...", "New in...", "On sale..."

On a personal level... not everyone needs to know that you just washed your car...

Do you see any practical applications for LibraryThing either at home or at work? Will you start using this site?

Practical application - when you look up books there is a recommend section, this might be another useful resource to suggest to customers that are have a hard time deciding what to read next. I also like that it will show you alternate covers that the title has had - though, I can't seem to find where is says the alternate covers are from, because unless you recognize the language you don't know.

I probably won't use it myself.

Online Productivity Tools

Do you see free online tools like these eventually replacing expensive software like MS Office?

I think that there is definately a possibility to these tools replacing MS Office products. The ease of not having to worry about USB's and saving devices - just having your documents avaiable whenever you accesess the web is very appealing. The library should have a partnership with Google so we can shamelessly promote it to customers.

Now to investigate the calendar....

Peacock Presence

Peacock photoes - to Loreena McKennitt's "Tango to Evora"

YouTube & Flickr

I like them both! You can find a lot of interesting photos on Flickr if you're browsing or if you're looking for something specific and the person who has uploaded it was handy in their 'tagging' skills. YouTube is great for the vast variety of everything it covers - how-to tutorials (I learned to wrap a sari), events (that you missed or want to watch again), creative projects, music videos - there's just so much out there!

Were you able to successfully set up your RSS feed?

Yep! I was successful setting up a RSS feed. This was and interesting one to learn about - I knew of it but have never explored it as an option. I can see how this could be set up as a nice easy information gathering one-stop-spot!

What do you like about the Google product? What do you dislike? Would you recommend the product to friends and colleagues?

I love Google Maps, and Street View.

• It's pretty user friendly with nice features that give you the option of finding out what is close by.
• It's great for not only directions, but seeing what kind of landmarks are around an area.
• It's also good for scoping out realistate if you're in the market and want to check out the neighbourhood.

I would definately recommend it.

Why do you think social networking sites are so popular? What are the main appeal factors?

It's an easy way to stay in touch with social networking websites like Face book. Instant communication to the masses with the possibility of more than one potential conversation awaiting to erupt seems to be appealing. Some other factors could be that you can log in for just a few minutes a day and catch a snippet of every one's life if they choose to share, there are also online photo albums for friends to view your adventures instantly. Face book messages sometimes seem like they are the new 'email' correspondence system, only shorter. Face book "invites" easily take the place of phone calls - when trying to organize events as they are less time consuming... Groups that connect you to like minded people...

I don't know - Face book is okay, but I really like real people and I really like snail mail and handwriting and sealing wax...

blue peacock. Photograph. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Web. 5 Apr. 2010. http://search.eb.com/eb/art-117509 **Look, look! I made good use of the E-Library resources and found a picture - and cited it too!

How easy or difficult was it to find articles that needed editing? Were the errors you found factual or grammar / spelling?

In the Wikipedia article that I looked at it was easy to spot some factual information to add on my favourite author's latest works. I was able to list a new addition to the books in the Velgarth series by Mercedes Lackey for 2010: "Finding the Way" (Dec 2010) which can be found on Amazon.ca (as we do not yet have it in our catalogue!) There will also be a sequel to "Foundation" (which is in our catalogue) called "Intrigues" (Oct 2010) which I am incredibly excited about!!

How comfortable are you using Best Websites, after this practice? Do you have any tips for using Best Websites on Delicious?

Even after this activity I find that I am not completely comfortable with Delicious/Best Websites. I still find it very user un-friendly and the web page itself seems very congested. There are however serendipitus moments like stumbling upon StumbleUpon a site that lets you choose a few topics you are interested in and then will bring up random blogs that relate to these topics. I think functionality with Delicious will come in time for us all, though perhaps not fondness...

What do you hope to learn from CPL 2.0?

I hope to learn a little bit more about everything! It's always nice to be well informed! Thanks for the opportunity to learn more!