http://www.johnofjack.com/23things Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:28:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.johnofjack.com/23things/2009/04/thing-23b/ I took it. http://www.johnofjack.com/23things/2009/04/thing-23-take-this-survey/ 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 ... http://www.johnofjack.com/23things/2009/04/thing-22-staying-curren/ 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. ... http://www.johnofjack.com/23things/2009/04/thing-21-student-20-tools/ 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 ... http://www.johnofjack.com/23things/2009/04/thing-20-books-20/ 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; ... http://www.johnofjack.com/23things/2009/04/thing-19-other-social-networks/ 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: http://www.johnofjack.com/23things/2009/03/youtube-strikes-back-return-of-thing-16/ 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 ... http://www.johnofjack.com/23things/2009/03/thing-18-facebook-and-spamspace/ 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 ... http://www.johnofjack.com/23things/2009/03/thing-17-podcasts/ 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 ... http://www.johnofjack.com/23things/2009/03/thing-16-youtube/