More Wonderful Hawaiian Music

Bruddah Iz



Keali'i Reichel



Cecilio and Kapono

The end of the journey... or just the beginning

This has been one amazing surfing experience. I've learned so much! I shot the curl of the RSS feed and podcast pipeline.



I rode some radical waves at blogs beach.



I embedded myself on the white sandy beach of flickrs and blogs. [check out this performance by Bruddah Iz.]



And I rode the wiki wiki bus to the wonderful world of wikis! Amazing. My favorites? Wikis, blogs, and Technorati. My least favorite? Facebook. It's an important tool to be aware of, but it's a world that, I believe, should be reserved for those under 30. But I'm glad that I was able to take a walk on that beach as well.

Overall, an ono experience. ALOHA!

The many colors of the Greater Phx Digital Library rainbow

Ahhhhh. Rainbows. Gotta love 'em. Peaking through the clouds of print materials, the brilliant colors of audiobooks slowly emerge. So pretty.

I find the Greater Phoenix Digital Library's site very easy to use. The listings not only tell you whether or not a copy is available, but also how many are available, and how long the waiting list is. Very neat. Tonight I'll go home and download one onto my computer. That way, I'll be all ready for the big moment when I get my new mp3 player for finishing this course!!! Yay!!!!

Surfing the podcast pipeline

Podcasts are fun to listen to. Some I was able to listen to, some I was not, due to the fact that they were blocked by the City network. I ultimately landed on the npr podcast page, and I selected NPR's most emailed stories. NPR is great to begin with, and listening to their most popular stories is such a wonderful opportunity.

Library Spot

YouTube. LOVE it, love it. Can't get enough. I checked out Yahoo Video as well (which I had no idea even existed), and it had far fewer posts.

And hands-down, this is THE best tv spot that takes place in a library (not that I know of many).

AloHA to Real Travel

Being one who loves to travel, I selected a travel tool from the Web 2.0 awards list. It's name: Real Travel. Unfortunately, it was a big disappointment.

Last year, my daughter travelled to Puebla, Mexico through a college exchange program. She absolutely loved it. Puebla is a vibrant, colorful city deep in the heart of Mexico. Accordingly, I selected Puebla as my fictitious destination to research on the Real Travel site.


Real Travel managed to provide me with a long list of hotels (advertisers, no doubt), but no restaurants and no activities. Give me a break. I know for a fact that there are both. But what I found most odd is the fact that both Forbes and Business Week voted this site to be essential to travel planning. Hello. What's up with that? I've had much better luck with budgettravel.about.com and tripadvisor.com.

So I say Alo-HA to Real Travel. (Just remember, aloha can also mean "goodbye").

Somewhere in the pacific...

Loved Google Docs. Loved it. And I suppose I agree with the thought that these freely-available, no need to install software on your computer, apps will be the wave of the future. They may, in fact, be the ultimate downfall of Microsoft's software arm. But they (Microsoft) are quite resilient, and they'll no doubt find another buoy to attach themselves to in the techno ocean.