I worked through the ninth (and final) week of tools. A lot of cool stuff here. I'm as big a YouTube user as anybody, so it was neat to take a look at other web video providers I otherwise might have ingnored. Especially intriguing to me is VideoJug, which provides a selection of "how-to" videos on a variety of subjects. The videos are of good quality and the site is easily navigable. I much prefer it to YouTube's largely clunky and confusing search mechanism. Also, it should be noted that the one major application missing from this section is the free screen-capture product Jing, an extremely useful tool for making and sharing videos of your computer's desktop. It would be a natural fit here.
I've never been one much for podcasting as a user. On the rare occasions that I've listened to them, I got them through iTunes on my computer. Still, I appreciated learning about other podcast serices available, especially Podomatic, which provides one-stop shopping for creating, distributing, and finding podcasts. It's kind of a ham radio club for podcasters.
Finally, the NetLibrary was cool to try out as well. I had used this before mainly to find electronic text books, not audiobooks, but it's nice to know it can be used to get audio as well. Unfortunately, I couldn't try it out because I only have an iPod :(.
All in all, while all of these multimedia tools might be useful for us and our patrons, there is really only one ultimate reason to use the internet for audio and video. This.
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