I think I chose a bad day and time to investigate podcasts, vidcasts, and their directories.
It was 2 o'clock on a Tuesday afternoon in the Central Library's public computer lab. I kept getting thrown off the sites I was searching such as podcast.net and podcastalley.com--frustrating!
Finally I got a search result list that was sort of related to my search (libraries and reviews). I ended up with 'The Genealogy Guys' and listened to them for a while. If you're a genealogy researcher I'm sure they'd be very interesting. To me, not so much. However, they are on my Google Reader now. I'm sort of surprised--one of the times I got pitched out of the Internet was when I was adding them.
The vidcasts were a complete wash-out. I'd found a 2 minute video interview with the Coen brothers talking about 'No Country For Old Men" but after about 10 seconds the whole thing shut down.
Again, frustrating...
2 comments:
It seems the podcast section has caused the most problems - if people weren't kicked off public networks (who knows why) then they were being blocked by WebSense. SIGH I'm not a big radio listener so, although I listened to some and I can see the potential marketing advantage - not something I really am interested in doing right now!!
It's a shame that something we were supposed to be learning was causing so much trouble. Maybe it's something they (ComIT?) can work on for future training programs. I agree with Diane - I'm just not into "listening" to things on the computer. I need visuals and want to see something.
Hang in there - we'll get through it all!
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