# 40 Retroland

At first was not enthusiastic about a site which invites me to relive my old days - but once in there, saw much to delve about. I quickly looked at music in the 60s and selected the evergreen Glen Campbell as I heard he was touring Australia recently - his long "release history" 1962 - 2000 (but I know there are more) on this site is proof of his talent. Sorry got carried away.

#39 Animoto

Animoto was addictive - finally got a good quality clip with latin/american music. (I loaded too many photos the first time). It doesn't work properly on my desktop internet access. However I received compliments when I emailed it to friends. Posting on my Blog and to Facebook was clunky - it wouldn;t allow me to put in a password the first couple of times but I persisted and voila - success.

The link to my video is included in this post.
http://animoto.com/play/jth1F4hxY13QATMUSRKiEQ

Animoto video

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#37 Music to your ears

Pandora was blocked to users outside the US due to licensing restrictions; so I went to LastFM - the desktop blocked some actions, so will look at it on the standalone in future. I noticed after the CPD forum this week, that a blog from Joanna's list - the Accidental Aussie - had a LastFM widget with AUssie music I think, but it wouldn't play on the desktop access. Blocked blocked blocked.

thing # 36 Dressng up your photos

I had a quick look - so many photo sites, so little time! As it is more a diversion at this stage, and I'm still catching up on web 2.1.....I will return to look at this in my own time.

Thing #35 Mini or micro blogging

Ah there goes my age again reminding me I don't like these sites that imply we can communicate perpetually with the online community - don't care what others are doing and I don't care to let them know what I'm doing! I set up an account in Twitter but didn't spend much time in there. I think I can see how it could be used in libraries and information services - eg for sending simple questions to reference desks and getting quick answers.

Thing #34 Using the web for better health and fitness

Better health and weight loss - checked out Fitday and Nutridiary - good looking sites. Both look promising for those wishing to get nutritional information, create goals and keep track of progress. MIght come back to this one in my spare time! Especially now that middle age is having it's way with my waistline.