A few of my (highly recommended) favorites are listed below…

Podcasts
Podcasts are a great way to pass the time while driving to work.

1. EDUCAUSE
2. T is for Training
3. Adventures in Library Instruction
4. NPR Technology

Blogs
I follow many, but here are a few of my favorites:

Library Blogs

1. ACRLog
2. Agnostic, Maybe
3. Attempting Elegance
4. HackLibSchool
5. In the Library with the Lead Pipe
6. Information Wants to be Free
7. Info-mational
8. Librarian by Day
9. Librarian In Black
10. Musings about Librarianship
11. Resource Shelf
12. Swiss Army Librarian
13. Tame the Web
14. The Unquiet Library
15. Virtual Dave…Real Blog

Education Blogs

1. EDUCAUSE 7 Things You Should Know
2. Inside Higher Ed
3. The Student Affairs Collaborative
4. Pew Research
5. ProfHacker
6. Chronicle of Higher Education

Tech Blogs

1. Digital Inspiration
2. Digitzd
3. Mashable
4. ReadWriteWeb
5. Six Revisions
6. TechCrunch

Webinars
Webinars (especially free ones, of course) are a great way to actively participate and learn from other professionals.

1. WebJunction (archived webinars are free)
2. Marianne Lenox’s Google Reader Bundle
3. Library Webinars Blog

A few other favorite websites:

1. TED Talks
2. MIT Open Courseware
3. Open Courseware Consortium Courses

In addition to the above, I follow a few Listservs and many Twitter feeds and lists. Subscription-based periodicals are great, as well as open access library and information journals, but the above links provide information daily.

I’ve noticed a few other folks who have created twitter accounts specifically for the conference, which is a great idea. One example is the Boulder Public Library’s staff professional development twitter account, @bplconference.

And for fun (but mostly inappropriate comments), catch some of @alasecrets tweets. Someone has created a twitter account specifically for the ALA conference. I’ve seen a few folks tweet the password – anyone can log in and anonymously share their thoughts of what’s going on at the moment… Some are quite funny, snarky and a wee bit crude. (In fact, I believe there is a correlation between time and crudeness… as more time passed, the more – shall we say – explicit @alasecret’s tweets became). It’s amazing what people will say when anonymous, though I must admit librarians are quite a creative bunch! (Psst – this is the tamest tweet I could find for @alasecrets).

Update, 6/11 afternoon: @alasecrets has been put to rest/disabled (someone changed the password and protected the updates)…not sure who shut ‘er down, but there is already a new anonymous account: @ALAsecrets2009. For information on how to post, check the directions.