I looked at the S: drive. I only put the Adult newsletter there in the "Publicity to be printed" file and delete it the next month. I have been doing this to avoid having the wrong newsletter printed, but it also keeps the clutter down.
I deleted several things from the P: drive. I deleted YA newsletters from 2003 and 2004, as well as adult newsletters from 2006 and half of 2007.
I went on to clean up my personal folder on the Z: drive. I moved several documents and a couple pictures to my flash drive, including a slide show from TS Allison. I then deleted them from the Z: drive. The TS Allison file was the oldest file I deleted, from 2001.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Post #29 - Spring Cleaning - e-mail
I have 2 personal e-mail accounts - one with Yahoo and one with Gmail. So I don't use HCPL account for personal e-mail. Although I do recieve personal e-mail in my HCPL account on occasion. I have gotten used to deleting sent mail, trash mail, and mail in various folders on a regular basis. I have had my e-mail sorted in folders since we started with this new e-mail. I do tend to leave things in the inbox too long and will remember to take appropriate action more quickly in the future.
My address book is cleaned out as necessary. I have addresses in it for members of my book club who I write to once a month about the book for that month. Even those who no longer attend want to receive the e-mails. I ask them periodically if they want to be removed and usually get no response.
Since I like to keep my Inbox pretty clear, I will continue to use folders and the delete key for that purpose.
My address book is cleaned out as necessary. I have addresses in it for members of my book club who I write to once a month about the book for that month. Even those who no longer attend want to receive the e-mails. I ask them periodically if they want to be removed and usually get no response.
Since I like to keep my Inbox pretty clear, I will continue to use folders and the delete key for that purpose.
Post #28 Spring Cleaning - Expensive Cyberspace
GTD - getting things done was interesting, but is way more complex than I need to get myself organized. Basically using t0-do lists and the delete key are all that I need. I keep my e-mail fairly up-to-date by deleting old messages and using folders for those I decide to hold on to for a short time.
I have used the Google calendar in the past, but I found I don't look at it. I am better just using notes to me on scratch paper and the monthly schedule that Annette copies for us, along with my monthly calendar on the counter at home.
I did sign up for Ta-da list and have set up two "books to read" lists. These lists will keep getting longer all the time and will never be complete!
I have used the Google calendar in the past, but I found I don't look at it. I am better just using notes to me on scratch paper and the monthly schedule that Annette copies for us, along with my monthly calendar on the counter at home.
I did sign up for Ta-da list and have set up two "books to read" lists. These lists will keep getting longer all the time and will never be complete!
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Post #26 Making Music Together
MySpace grew from a site to connect bands to listeners and fans with other fans to a huge social networking site. The social aspects are now its biggest draw. There are newer sites now that emphasize the music. Mog is a site created specifically to link people together based on the music they like. I listened to "The Felice Brothers" which was a new band for me and I read the review by Kronski.
Imeen is an online community where millions of fans and artists discover new music, videos, and photos, and share their taste with friends. I listened to some of the samples listed under new music.
Project Playlist is used to share music with your friends.
Phling! is the mobile music community service that connects you to all the music, podcasts, and pictures stored on your PC, to your friends, and to everyone in the phling! community. All from your mobile phone.
You can use your mobile phone to listen to your music anywhere, anytime without having to first synchronize with your PC. With phling! you can also let up to six phling! friends listen to your music, and they can let you listen to their music. You can read and submit song reviews, find out who is listening to what, browse user profiles, and stay in touch by posting messages to your friends' bulletin boards and your own.
Qloud allows you to add a "my music" component to your Facebook or Friendster accounts.
There are many music sights that allow musicians to play together. Here is an excerpt from an article about this phenomenon: "With broadband, social networking apps and web-based audio tools increasingly available and affordable to most people with computers, the world of music is on the verge of big change. That perfect-storm combination of these tools will do for music creation what technology has already done for music consumption: remove barriers of time, space and scarcity." WIRED - Eliot Van Buskirk.
JamStudio helps you create songs by choosing from different set up options which can then be e-mailed to someone for editing. I played with this for awhile and discovered how complex it is to put a song together when you are not musically inclined!! I think my son the musician would love it. I'm sure he knows about it already.
This has been a real education for me about music sharing capabilities online - original music and music created by friends and unknown bands.
Imeen is an online community where millions of fans and artists discover new music, videos, and photos, and share their taste with friends. I listened to some of the samples listed under new music.
Project Playlist is used to share music with your friends.
Phling! is the mobile music community service that connects you to all the music, podcasts, and pictures stored on your PC, to your friends, and to everyone in the phling! community. All from your mobile phone.
You can use your mobile phone to listen to your music anywhere, anytime without having to first synchronize with your PC. With phling! you can also let up to six phling! friends listen to your music, and they can let you listen to their music. You can read and submit song reviews, find out who is listening to what, browse user profiles, and stay in touch by posting messages to your friends' bulletin boards and your own.
Qloud allows you to add a "my music" component to your Facebook or Friendster accounts.
There are many music sights that allow musicians to play together. Here is an excerpt from an article about this phenomenon: "With broadband, social networking apps and web-based audio tools increasingly available and affordable to most people with computers, the world of music is on the verge of big change. That perfect-storm combination of these tools will do for music creation what technology has already done for music consumption: remove barriers of time, space and scarcity." WIRED - Eliot Van Buskirk.
JamStudio helps you create songs by choosing from different set up options which can then be e-mailed to someone for editing. I played with this for awhile and discovered how complex it is to put a song together when you are not musically inclined!! I think my son the musician would love it. I'm sure he knows about it already.
This has been a real education for me about music sharing capabilities online - original music and music created by friends and unknown bands.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Sound #25 Music Piracy - Burning a CD
Once I found a blank CD burning songs to it was fairly easy. I brought in a CD-R from home but it had a file on it and would not let me burn anything to it. I looked in the box of "left-behind" CDs in the Adult Services workroom and found one from last July that was blank. I was able to burn songs from a CD titled "Concert by the Sea" by Erroll Garner to the blank CD. I ripped them and then burned them, in the language of craft. The thing I don't like is that you cannot burn additional files to a CD after burning is complete, so you'd better know what you want before you start. If you are using a CD-RW, you can erase the entire CD before using the player to burn files to the CD again.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Post #25 Music Piracy
I checked out the RIAA website (Recording Industry Association of America) and looked at the legal music sites. There were about 60 websites that offer music that is legal to download. Next I clicked on the list of rules to follow and what the law says. This website was helpful, www.campusdownloading.com (faq). It was helpful in figuring out what's legal and what isn't. Here is what is said about peer-to-peer (p2p) downloading: "We are not against P2P services. We are against people who steal and illegally distribute copyrighted music that doesn’t belong to them. The music industry has been a major beneficiary of new technology (from wax cylinders to vinyl to LPs to CDs), and the current technological developments are no exception. But let's face it, even great technology can be abused. And that's what the industry is confronting right now. We have to figure out how to take advantage of the great new delivery systems that the Internet offers, without being seriously damaged by uncontrolled piracy. P2P in particular can really be a fabulous technology - but right now it's doing far more harm than good. (So surveys show.)"
I looked at RIAA- Piracy Online and on the Street.
Represents the recod industry and not everyone agrees with the RIAA
www.Boycott-riaa.com opposed the RIAA
www.eff.org (Electronic Frontier Foundation) tells you "how-not-to-get-sued-for-file-sharing."
Enforcement: The Wikipedia article on this topic has a disclaimer that the site's "neutrality is disputed."
DRM - digital rights management - also a Wikipedia entry
Digital rights management (DRM) is an umbrella term that refers to access control technologies used by publishers and copyright holders to limit usage of digital media or devices. It may also refer to restrictions associated with specific instances of digital works or devices.
EFF disagrees with the use of DRM.
Copyright and Libraries: General Rules
Music - Follow the RIAA interpretation
Movies: Follow the guidelines of the library's public performance license.
Copyrighted printed works can not be reproduced in their entirety
Have permission to use artwork for posters, handouts, and bookmarks.
When creating online content make sure to have persmission to use other peoples work and to give credit. Follow the Creative Commons guidelines.
More on burning a song to CD later.
I looked at RIAA- Piracy Online and on the Street.
Represents the recod industry and not everyone agrees with the RIAA
www.Boycott-riaa.com opposed the RIAA
www.eff.org (Electronic Frontier Foundation) tells you "how-not-to-get-sued-for-file-sharing."
Enforcement: The Wikipedia article on this topic has a disclaimer that the site's "neutrality is disputed."
DRM - digital rights management - also a Wikipedia entry
Digital rights management (DRM) is an umbrella term that refers to access control technologies used by publishers and copyright holders to limit usage of digital media or devices. It may also refer to restrictions associated with specific instances of digital works or devices.
EFF disagrees with the use of DRM.
Copyright and Libraries: General Rules
Music - Follow the RIAA interpretation
Movies: Follow the guidelines of the library's public performance license.
Copyrighted printed works can not be reproduced in their entirety
Have permission to use artwork for posters, handouts, and bookmarks.
When creating online content make sure to have persmission to use other peoples work and to give credit. Follow the Creative Commons guidelines.
More on burning a song to CD later.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Sound #24 The Sound of Music
I went to these websites and looked around at the choices they offered: Napster, iTunes, Yahoo!, and Rhapsody, as well as Amazon.com. These are all pay sites that offer a great variety of music for a price.
I have already downloaded books to my MP3 player using the Overdrive Console from the HCPL digital books site. Today I downloaded a song from music.download.com. The song is an easy listening song titled "Quiet Path" by Ben Travis. I had to look at several songs before I found one that had a "free download" notice on it. I thought I was doing something wrong because I couldn't find a place on the page to download a song. It turns out that all of the songs I clicked on were not free. The "download to MP3" only shows up on the free songs.
While I was looking around on Music.downloads.com, I was surprised by the number of music categories that were listed. I finally found free downloads in the Easy Listening genre. I also found that there are new movie pictures on this site. I looked at the new "Mummy III" movie and was disappointed that Rachel Weis will not be in the movie. I hope they didn't kill her off.
I liked the Pandora site. It is radio online only. I created "Joe Walsh" radio. I also went to KUHF and KILT online.
I thought downloading the music from the website was much easier than doing it in Overdrive. It took all of 5 minutes. When I first started using Overdrive it took me over 90 minutes to figure out how to download a book, and that was after training at Central. A patron told me it was easier now, so I'll have to try it again. I've had Jim doing it for me. He uses his MP3 all the time, much more than I use mine.
I have already downloaded books to my MP3 player using the Overdrive Console from the HCPL digital books site. Today I downloaded a song from music.download.com. The song is an easy listening song titled "Quiet Path" by Ben Travis. I had to look at several songs before I found one that had a "free download" notice on it. I thought I was doing something wrong because I couldn't find a place on the page to download a song. It turns out that all of the songs I clicked on were not free. The "download to MP3" only shows up on the free songs.
While I was looking around on Music.downloads.com, I was surprised by the number of music categories that were listed. I finally found free downloads in the Easy Listening genre. I also found that there are new movie pictures on this site. I looked at the new "Mummy III" movie and was disappointed that Rachel Weis will not be in the movie. I hope they didn't kill her off.
I liked the Pandora site. It is radio online only. I created "Joe Walsh" radio. I also went to KUHF and KILT online.
I thought downloading the music from the website was much easier than doing it in Overdrive. It took all of 5 minutes. When I first started using Overdrive it took me over 90 minutes to figure out how to download a book, and that was after training at Central. A patron told me it was easier now, so I'll have to try it again. I've had Jim doing it for me. He uses his MP3 all the time, much more than I use mine.
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