Week 9 #23

The end.

At last, here we are at the summing up. Web 2 good or bad? A bit like the Curate's egg really, good in places.

There is a vast amount of stuff I simply will never use. There are also many goodly things here.

GoogleDocs - yes. Flickr - yes. RSS - maybe. YouTube - you bet! And more.

Podcasts (not iTunes) - no. Tagging etc - mostly no. Ebooks - no. Bebo etc - don't think so. And more.

The problem is that unless you use these apps. frequently you forget not only how to use them but even that they exist. Life is full of an awful lot of stuff that you don't really need to know.

The trick is to sort the wheat from the chaff.

Which leads me to -

Inspirational quote for today

"As you go through life

Make this your goal

Watch the doughnut

Not the hole"

Farewell to all my faithful readers.

Grizabella

Week 9 - YouTube, Podcasts, Ebooks

The last week. Oh joy.

Youtube : I like YouTube. I mean, what's not to like? You want videos of cats being stupid? youtube's your place. you want to see dogs being stupid? Look out the window!

Best clip for me just now is 6 minutes plus of Andreas Helgstrand with his beautiful horse performing in the freestyle final at the 2006 World Equestrian Games. Absolutely mindboggling and no way would you ever see this on NZ TV.

Podcasts : With the exception of iTunes I think podcasts are cr*p. The sites either would not load or if they did they just sat there like electronic lemons. The only sites that did anything simply flicked you to YouTube so why bother.

Ebooks : OK, the sites all worked, the layout was pretty, the sites were easy to use, I really can't moan about anything except - what is so wrong with paper pages? There is something very clinical about the idea of reading a book from an electronic device. I mean, you can't really snuggle up in bed with a good laptop can you?


Inspirational thought for today

"The greatest wealth is to be rich in friends
but if possible let them be
rich friends.

Week 8 Google Docs etc

Week 8 - Online Applications & Tools

I am creating this in Google Docs. So far so simple. I assume I can save this someplace and return to it at my pleasure.
Which is what I will do as I must away now to wait upon my adoring public. ($2.00 for Bebo)

45 minutes later.
The adoring public does not need me so I'm back. Docing away on Desk! This is brilliant!!!! Why wasn't I using this all the time? And on the Council Internet too!!! What gives? I thought all this was blocked.

Many weeks later!!!
Christmas was nice. I hope you all had a nice time. School holidays in Public Libraries are sheer hell. Then I had 2 weeks leave (and needed it!!)
Holidays over, leave over. Back to "$2.00 for Bebo". Sometimes this job is really boring.

The plan here is that I can upload this into my blog. Copy and paste should work. I'll 'give eet a go' as they say in Aussieland.

A few seconds later.
Well, it worked - sort of.
I had a nice photo at the top which didn't come through. Can't think why. Copy and paste worked well.

Few more seconds later.

The picture is now at the top. I had to do it the usual way. Whatever!

Inspirational quote for today

" If you love something, set it free

If it comes back, it's yours

If it doesn't -

Hunt it down and kill it!!"