Eight weeks and mixed feelings

Well, I have finished the eight weeks and even though I will be going back into the blog, wiki and retrying some of the material presented to us I will say I am glad this is the end. Working on something by yourself is one thing, trying to find time during the week to do it is something else. I know in my blog posts I have been vocal on things I found frustrating, especially when I read the comments of others and they seem to not be having any problems. I think I have always been looking at it from the aspect, can I use it here in my library. Since some of the websites are blocked, then it seemed as if the whole week was not needed as I could not access it unless from home and the hospital has it so the two are very separate.
To answer the questions from this week before I finish my final wrap up, here it goes:
I actually looked into two mashups. One just for fun and the other for reference for work. The one for fun is called "Wheel of Food", where you put in the zip code of where you are, what meal you are looking for and it gives you four or five places to go to eat. Very interesting and alot of fun to play with. The second mashup is actually a wiki called " Librarian Chick". The site is for those of us with no money and yet we want to be able to explore, learn, and and educate ourselves as to what is out there on the Internet. It has free audio books, text books and eBooks. Also there is a Learning Center where there is free educational information, sites, games and software. It is updated frequently and all links are verified. I was so inspired with this site I emailed the link to friends of mine that are in the public library sector for use on some tough reference questions.
When I went onto exercise two on Rollyo I did not have a problem finding the librarian blogs searchroll and doing the search for privacy, but I was kind of surprised to the scarcasm they expressed. It seems that most think there isn't any privacy anymore, no matter how much on the different sites you are promised to be secure. Therefore, big brother is always watching and the only privacy is at night, in your bedroom with the curtains pulled. Now that is really scary that you must think that you are constantly being watched, but I can understand that when everything we do now is via computer and any of the administration can 'check in' to what we are doing. I guess the world has changed, but I am not always sure it is for the better.
All in all this has been a good experience, I love this blog and hope to get the wiki up and running more, delicious is just wonderful, Google.docs is a God send for those of us who cannot afford Microsoft, and photo sharing is very nice also. At least when someone talks about a blog, wiki or whatever I will not look completely dumbfounded.
Thank you to all of the instructors for their time and effort in putting this together, answering our questions and the support. With so many of us across the country it would not have been easy.
And with that I will end today, try to get my work out and work on this material to bring more polish to my blog and wiki as I will try to keep them up and utilize them to communicate to others in the future.