Sorry, I just don't see the attraction in the videos and podcasts. The content of many of them is questionable, to say the least, and some of the comments were rude, crude, and socially unacceptable.
I'll always prefer boards and paper over downloadable books, but Project Gutenberg seems to have many titles that might be hard to locate elsewhere, plus many of the classics. Where else could I find "Lameness of the horse" by John Victor Lacroix or "Modern Spanish lyrics"?
I still feel, as I did at the beginning of this project, that it is an imposition upon the staff to expect them to complete the 23 things in addition to their other responsibilites (most of the staff, that is). It was suggested to me about two months ago that supervisors should survey their staff and see how many of them had already completed or almost completed the 23 things. Then they would know which of their staff didn't have enough to do. I wish that suggestion could have been acted upon. The workload is unevenly distributed among the library staff, and if participation is a similar future program were voluntary, I would probably opt out. However, I did find a few sites that will be helpful to me in my work and at home, such as Zoho Writer and Del.icio.us. The 23 Things program is a good one, in theory, but in practice it needs much work.
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