Google docs and great aps

I just finished lesson 9--at least for now. If I wanted to explore everything in this lesson I could be at it for months. But, it has been an interesting and productive experience, like all of learning 2.0. The first thing I encountered was a problem; Google Docs cannot be accessed with my Mac browser Safari. But, this wasn't a huge obstacle; I just had to download Firefox as a new browser, and I can use that to get to Google Docs easily.

On Google Docs I started to set up a word-type document describing assembly programs that we are planning to do at schools in January. The coolest thing about Google Docs was the ability to automatically email the document to my colleagues. No opening email, then attaching the document. I really like this feature, and I'm sure I'll discover other neat things as I continue to use it.

Looking at the list of award winning aps there were several that I found intriguing, but I decided to explore one of the city guide sites --Yelp. I'm planning to go to Philadelphia for ALA's Midwinter meting, and I thought this site might help me id restuarants to go to, and maybe some new local sights to see during my non-conference time. Well, the site was fun, but I'm not sure it is going to be very useful to me. There was a lot about nightlife and bars and funky shops and restaurants. Good reading, but I think I'm in a different demographic than the average Yelp user.