YouTube, NetLibrary and Podcasting

Big surprise, YouTube is way more fun than anything else this week.  I of course decided to see if I could find some really entertaining Shiba Inu websites.  There were tons.  This one was hilarious...  there was a series of videos of this Plucky Chicken confusing this poor pup.  This was the best of them.

NetLibrary is something I use every once in awhile at home to load on my iPhone.  I searched and found a book called Undead and Unfinished by MaryJanice Davidson.  Duration was 7 hours, 37 minutes.

Podcasting.  I'm not too impressed with the organization of the sites that we looked at for searching for podcasts.  I searched for Science Fiction books/reviews/movies and came up with very marginal things that didn't even look recent until I just happened upon one called Adventures in SciFi Publishing.  I decided I was going to follow this one since it seemed like it was a current podcast that was still adding new materials. 

So, I went to the website of Adventures in SciFi Publishing and told it to follow the podcasts with Google Reader.  The computer in the back room exploded and said it didn't understand something or another.  So, I came to the back on my computer and figured out that Google Reader HAD added it even though it objected to it on the computer in the back room.  Then however when I found a podcast to listen to on the site that sounded interesting, it wouldn't load on my computer in my office.  So, I looked it up on my iPhone on iTunes and am listening as I am typing here. 

I'm thinking if we have patrons who are really interested in using our computers (with headphones I'd say!) to listen to podcasts we are going to need to make sure that our computers are capable of doing so.  Especially since I had two issues with two separate computers when trying to subscribe using my Google Reader and then later just to listen to it.