Author Archive
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Thing 23b
A certain unicorn’s response to the final survey piqued my interest on a few of the book 2.0 sites that I did not explore in depth (I spent my time on ReadingTrails, which was one that I quite liked).
Of all the 23 Things blogs I read, I liked Erin’s the most for both its concision [...]
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Thing 23: Take This Survey
I took it.
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Thing 22: Staying Current
Here are some other things we hope you have learned:
It really doesn’t take that much time.
Ha. Ha. Ha. No, that is not something I learned.
What I learned was that 23 Things does take a lot of time, even to give the Things a cursory look, and that Thing 20 in particular takes [...]
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Thing 21: Student 2.0 Tools
On the assignment calculator, I tried to set up a timeline for the separation of church and state. Since the establishment clause took effect in mid-December of 1791, along with the rest of the bill of rights, I decided I’d give the project a full year to be implemented. The calculator told me [...]
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
Thing 20: Books 2.0
I believe you’re really reading online, simply because I had the idea that reading is looking at a series of symbols somehow representing sounds, converting them into words in your head, and then converting those sounds into sentences conveying meaning.
Whether reading online is enough like reading a book to satisfy stodgy academics is another matter [...]
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
Thing 19: Other Social Networks
On Diane’s advice, I skipped Gather altogether, though I did read the article about it (”Can Gather.com Get Book Lovers Online?”).
The article set off my Spider-sense early on, and it continued to tingle throughout. I’m not sure why any industry needs to be “given a platform” by someone else; industries are quite capable of [...]
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Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Youtube Strikes Back / Return of Thing 16
I uploaded a video. Unfortunately I failed to shrink the resolution so it took forever to upload, but that was something worth learning.
“The problem of the plastic ring,” a short film starring Slinky:
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Thing 18: Facebook and SpamSpace
I signed up to Facebook in late 2007 and have used many of its features since then. Its “Notes” app is very basic, not nearly as useful as the blogging tools on Wordpress or Blogger, but that’s fine since I go there mostly to get a quick overview of what my friends are doing [...]
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Thing 17: Podcasts
I have for been listening to the Metafilter podcasts for about nine months, though I don’t subscribe to them because I don’t like how the stack up and begin to seem like a chore instead of a pleasure. I know about RSS, including for podcasts, but still won’t be subscribing to them for the [...]
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Thing 16: Youtube
Youtube, huh? Well, it’s Web 2.0 but the 2.0 part of it (user feedback) is the worst of any I’ve seen on the web. The comments are almost uniformly stupid.
PLEASE DONT READ THIS. YOU WILL GET KISSED ON THE NEAREST POSSIBLE FRIDAY BY THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE. TOMORROW WILL BE [...]
