Armed with a bit of knowledge about what Twitter is all about, share your thoughts on this fast growing online phenomenon.
I signed up and began following a couple of my favourite people. The feeds that came up on my Home page made enough sense, but I was lost when looking at other people's pages - is this what they are saying to some other individual, or what someone else is saying to them? It seemed like snippets of a bunch of conversations that I had no context for or interest in.
Even following the most interesting people I know on there, I wasn't finding many interesting tweets.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
LibraryThing
If you already use LibraryThing, what’s your favourite part?
I set up a LibraryThing account and started a small collection. Adding books was easy, but I didn't find collection managment natural at first. I really liked the 'Your top 50 similar libraries' feature - even with only a handful of my favourite books added, it led me to a few awesome collections that included way too many books that I want to read now. What most excited me, though, was the 'Swap' listing, which shows which of the books I've added are available through several online book swapping communities. I think my next subscription is going to have to be to one of these communities.
I set up a LibraryThing account and started a small collection. Adding books was easy, but I didn't find collection managment natural at first. I really liked the 'Your top 50 similar libraries' feature - even with only a handful of my favourite books added, it led me to a few awesome collections that included way too many books that I want to read now. What most excited me, though, was the 'Swap' listing, which shows which of the books I've added are available through several online book swapping communities. I think my next subscription is going to have to be to one of these communities.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Online Productivity Tools
Do you see yourself using these tools or will you stick to more traditional methods? If you were to use one of these tools regularly, which would it be and why?
I will certainly begin using Google Docs rather than Microsoft Word for simple documents, particulary for documents I want to be able to access from several different computers. This convenience is a huge draw for me. A deficiency that surprised me was the very limited choices of font styles and sizes (36 pt maximum?!). It seems to me that before long they should be able to improve this and a few other features, and then I would have no reason to have to purchase Office tools.
I will certainly begin using Google Docs rather than Microsoft Word for simple documents, particulary for documents I want to be able to access from several different computers. This convenience is a huge draw for me. A deficiency that surprised me was the very limited choices of font styles and sizes (36 pt maximum?!). It seems to me that before long they should be able to improve this and a few other features, and then I would have no reason to have to purchase Office tools.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Flickr & YouTube
Comment on Flickr and YouTube. Were they user-friendly?
I find both of these sites very user-friendly, although it look a little bit of practice to figure out how Flickr was organized. I think their biggest strength is that they have become the dominant gathering places for their mediums. A few years ago, when you wanted to find a video clip you'd look at this site and that site and maybe that site; now it's a pretty safe bet that if it's on the Internet, it's on YouTube.
I find both of these sites very user-friendly, although it look a little bit of practice to figure out how Flickr was organized. I think their biggest strength is that they have become the dominant gathering places for their mediums. A few years ago, when you wanted to find a video clip you'd look at this site and that site and maybe that site; now it's a pretty safe bet that if it's on the Internet, it's on YouTube.
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