Thing #12 Rollyo

Today I explored the world of Rollyo. To me rollyo seems to be similar to tags and wikis. I'm not even clear about the distinction between the three except that they allow the user to categorize things for easy use and easy access. It seems appropriate for users who acess many websites and want to group or categorize their favorite websites. Also a user can group create own search tool for websites that are known and trusted. This is especially great when working with kids where they may need primary sources to research or just trusted websites to explore. As for me, I am content as such and don't think I would use this personally. At work, our toolbar has everything bookmarked that we need to work with and use on a daily basis. Thank you techie people for making my life more efficient!!

Thing #11 Library Thing

Today I made numerous attempts to log into librarything. IT was extremely frustrating!! I carefully selected my usual username and password, the librarything kept returning to the login process menu. After MANY attempts, a message appeared saying username already in use. I selected TWO more usernames and passwords only to receive the same message and then a nother message saying WRONG password and username. Librarything looks really nice for avid readers and librarians to use and comment upon titles but , it is not easy to sign up.

Thing #8 & #9 RSS Feeds

Previously, I had set up my blogline account and located RSS feeds that are favorable to me. Today I refreshed my memory and tried adding additional feeds to the blogline. I was able to accomplish this; however when I attached the blogline to my blog, I don't see that little RSS feed symbol. Am I doing something wrong? I remember last time going into others blogs and seeing their RSS symbol and connecting them to me or vice versa.

I believe this RSS feed is a really cool way to connect to the outside world in micro steps. As I get more familiar with it (and hopefully use it) maybe I'll utilize this feature in my daily tech world.

Thing #19

Today I browsed the web 2.0 again (I believe) and still am not crazy about the web video casts that I saw. A friend forwarded a video about "what moms say" a few weeks ago from youtube. I could not find it. Also, I'm not interested in seeing multiply episodes of "What Sammy eats?" about a cat eating various things. "Who cares," is my response and I really don't have time to browse other people's interests, especially those off kilter. It was nice to listen to a hit song, but this solely would not sell me to check out the web2.0.

Thing #19 ZOHO writer

Today I experimented with ZOHO Writer and I admit to getting a little frustrated because the cursor kept returning to the upper left hand corner and the settings reverted back to the original settings. I also attempted to import a photo from google images but it kept creating a new document each time I hit the import button.

Thing #16 & #17 WIKIS

I must say that the creators of these new techie terms -- wikis, del.icio.us, merlin rolly, etc -- probably began their career creating names of the various street names in Columbia, MD or who knows, they may have grew up on one of those strange streets and was inspired.
This week's term gets more respect than del.icio.us!! After reviewing various websites to become more familiar with wikis, I believe it would be useful for HCL intranet, school research responses, collaborative projects, or creating documents. At HCL, creating a wiki for book reviews from staff and the community would be awesome! It would help a patron conclude if the book is right for them. Of course, I guess we would be copying from Amazon. Is that ok? The utube presentation had great points, too -- less email generated, one central site.
I do have a hang up with this concept just like del.icio.us and others out there that it is free speech and thus will have opinions, slander, lack credibility, and gossip. I truly don't have time to waste my time surf or snurfing around the world wide web to read outlandish things. I much prefer to have a face-to-face conversation with my friends and family. I feel that if the writer needs to be anonymous than it doesn't need to be published. (Of course that is my opinion).

I was teambuilding with my fellow cenchtech goddesses. In case you don't understand I edit a SIwiki post?#$%@%$

Things #13, #14, & #15 (rev1)

Deli.cio.us : When someone mentions that word typically the picture at left automatically comes to mind, not the numerous web sites that one can access. I can see that for some users this feature streamlines their time by having the website available on all computers that the user works on. For me bookmarking will be sufficient to use because for now, all the work computers have different sites I need and I only have one computer at home. Do you think if I begin to think of del.icio.us in terms of multiply website availability from numerous computers, do you think I'll lose my appetite to eat those delicious sweets?