YouTube AND my little castle - Tioram

... now coming full circle from beginning this blog with a little personal story about a gentle,beloved grandmother's history- a castle somewhere in the past, past.
VERY little information was ever mentioned by Gram of "the castle"- In fact, I didn't hear about it till a recent trip to Scotland by one of her sons to find the castle. Not much left of it--- but Web is fantistic--- another traveller gives us a brief glimpse on YouTube- of Tioram.
Web 2.0 ? --I'm hooked.

Podcasting stories

Now I'm on a roll- backwards! (in the RULA Learning program). I skipped blogging for a while . It's cool though- 'cause things keep changing, getting better..
Take podcasting/itunes , for example. CBC has been my first, and still favourite podcasting experience. I grew up in a home that listening to radio was like breathing - constant.
Because podcasts are archived for a short duration on CBC site- it made sense to subscribe to the auto downloading of latest "Writers & Co." or ESL podcasts. _'till my little home pc exploded with maybe over load- not sure, but needless to say I did not get to listen to all the previous Eleanor Wachtel episodes.
Now with a zippier PC I can capture more content AND good news- Q:the podcast (Q with Jian Ghomeshi) is now --- a VODcast-- - who can complain about seeing JG. himself, live , in colour (well not quite live but certainly in colour). Check it (him) out in bold TV "..full length interviews with celebrities and personalities in the worlds of arts, culture and entertainment". A previous episode, now available on Youtube,
Q: The Video Podcast

Podcasts are great for adding to you i-pod for travel listening so, Jian's April 6th podcast.

Commentary for catchup week

Thinking Spring and flowers and birds twittering--- well not exactly as described in Toronto today! But I wanted to back up to a couple of previously untried parts of the social web- Twitter. My experience today resulted in many attempts to both set up an account and to respond to a Chemistry related social space - I guess it is a busy day for tweet, tweet --- I keep getting a message: "Twitter is over capacity".
I know I'll get in if I persist...