So, here i sit, on the first March 2008 Sunday morning in the rec room, feet up, privileged to have a husband who is cleaning the kitchen, with my laptop, devouring information from Michael’s ‘podcasting readings’ for LIS:7680, using a Google Docs BETA Doc.html file. I am typing my thoughts directly into a document for my blog entry, trying to find the clearest of words so I don’t need to edit (a most time consuming process when typically too many words are used). Saving a document by attaching it to an email to yourself is one of the safest ways to preserve in 2008. In 2006 a fellow graduate student was shocked when I told her that I saved the document in cyberspace. It was safe, but not for years, techies spread the word not to rely on saving documents outside of CD, in the C drive or flash drive. I did not type out the Eash article method, but instead am reading it online having been able to see it every time I have looked at it. The website has always displayed since class started.

It is cool! I am pleased! My benefit, my motive, my reason for doing it, ‘on purpose’, is to SAVE TIME! Yes, I like that. I have too many other things I wish to find time for today. Maybe this will establish the electronic access habits and uses that I can put into practice now. Staying in step with technology means exposure to and operating in that new technology. Right, left, right.

[Diversion]Wow, I just figured out how to stop the stuck “italics” problem I have had before but didn’t know how to correct in this Doc.html document. I used the “Remove formatting” feature in this editor. Google automatically saves changes every 60 seconds. This open source software has some kinks to work out.[/diversion]

The article by Ester Eash, Podcasting 101 for K–12 Librarians, is very informative. Already I know I need more information about RSS feeds. I remember when streaming media was choppy, unrelaible, would freeze and lock up the computer back in the 1900s. I see it has come out of its youth and is established as a reliable adult in the technological hierarchy.