Thursday, May 17, 2007
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Week #4
I browsed the SEOmoz site and ran across some interesting stuff. I even found the pbwiki website that OCLS uses a bit. It is rated #2 under the Hosted Wikis category. I created a test wiki for myself (which was very easy). Now I just need to think of something useful I can do with it. Maybe I'll put codes for my personal video games on it so I can keep them all in one easy-to-find location, no matter where I am. I also browsed the Photos and Digital Images area for a new place to possibly host my photo albums (as I find Yahoo! Photos keeps getting worse as time goes on). I looked around YourMinis for blog related things (widgets) but found that I needed to download various things in order to do that (which I didn't have time for).
As far as Myspace & Youtube goes, I already knew OCLS had material on both of them and had already seen it. I'm actually in the Youtube video I just linked.
The web 2.0 video was interesting but I kept having flashbacks from the Terminator movies (1, 2 and 3). In the movies, the computers (Skynet) eventually became sentient and decided the human race was a virus.
As far as Myspace & Youtube goes, I already knew OCLS had material on both of them and had already seen it. I'm actually in the Youtube video I just linked.
The web 2.0 video was interesting but I kept having flashbacks from the Terminator movies (1, 2 and 3). In the movies, the computers (Skynet) eventually became sentient and decided the human race was a virus.
Monday, May 7, 2007
Week #3
I subscribed to a variety of RSS feeds using Bloglines (one of which was OCLS Announcements and Technology @OCLS). I registered for Shifted Librarian, BBC News, Slashdot, Librarian's Internet Index among others. I even found my favorite RSS feed from http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/ that I already had on my computer at home. It gives me the latest news on what TV shows are coming to DVD.
I didn't find Grokker particularly exciting, personally. I think I'd rather just use Yahoo or Wikipedia in the first place since I'm familiar with them already. People new to both of those websites may find Grokker handy though. To me, searching visually or otherwise felt cramped with to many windows/frames and thus more confusing than if i had just gone directly to Wikipedia and searched.... and it's not like searching Wikipedia is a overly challenging endeavor. The most exciting thing is that they named it from Robert Heinlein's term "Grok" from Stranger in a Strange Land. It means to drink. But, I'm not sure if I'm going to be thinking or drinking-in Grokker too much in my spare time.
I didn't find Grokker particularly exciting, personally. I think I'd rather just use Yahoo or Wikipedia in the first place since I'm familiar with them already. People new to both of those websites may find Grokker handy though. To me, searching visually or otherwise felt cramped with to many windows/frames and thus more confusing than if i had just gone directly to Wikipedia and searched.... and it's not like searching Wikipedia is a overly challenging endeavor. The most exciting thing is that they named it from Robert Heinlein's term "Grok" from Stranger in a Strange Land. It means to drink. But, I'm not sure if I'm going to be thinking or drinking-in Grokker too much in my spare time.
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