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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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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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 [...]
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Thing 15: Rollyo
I rolled one. It didn’t work. It was intended to be an image searching roll, and at first it had four sites defined: flickr, altavista images, google images, and yahoo images.
The first time I tried it, it pulled results only from Flickr. I deleted Flickr from the URL list and tried again. [...]
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
Thing 14: Online Productivity Tools
I had an iGoogle home page already and stuck with it; it had a ToDo gadget on it already and I’m happy with it so I didn’t try any others. And I was already using Google Calendar and am happy with that too, so I didn’t try any new ones.
I was surprised that one [...]
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
Thing 12: Wikis
I started contributing to Wikipedia way back in 2001, when it was on much older crufty software and took up hardly any disk space at all; the rules then were still in flux and one of the ones you could trot out in a disagreement was “ignore all rules.” Somewhere along the line I [...]
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
Thing 11: Social Media
Digg:
Went to digg. Clicked “most popular” then “last 30 days.” Top “story”: screengrabs of someone posting “IS THIS REAL LIFE?” then a response “Is this just fantasy?” followed by several posts giving the entirety of the lyrics (and some instrumentation) of “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
Huh. So what’s the second thing I most needed to [...]
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Friday, February 20th, 2009
Thing 10: Tagging and del.icio.us
I love tagging in general and think it usually works well enough even without a controlled vocabulary. Folksonomies have disadvantages, of course, especially in their imprecision–users might get both horses and cars under “mustang”–but the advantage in comparison to cataloging with a controlled vocabulary is that people tend to use terms that most other [...]
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Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Thing 9: Sharing - slides, photos, databases (redux)
Erin found a site called Blist that lets you create and share databases, for free, online. I set up an account and tried it out (didn’t enter much data–just wanted some experience with it) and found it to have a very intuitive interface.
I won’t continue with that database (allconsuming.net already does the same thing, [...]
