Thing 23 (the end!)

Hurrah! Finally reached the end of the programme. I reckon about half of things, Linked in, twitter, wiki's and facebook I knew about already, some were new to me- igoogle for example and google documents- - others I had seen such as Flixster but had not actually used.

It was an interesting, although lenghtly experience- I am glad that i know how to set up an igoogle page and know a bit more about flixter than I did 12 weeks ago. I'm not sure how useful this will be for my library work- it remains to be seen!

Things 21 and 22

I really liked Flickr- it was a great way of uploading pictures and increasing the size of the images. I expact it is something I will use again in the future.

Regarding the gadgets it was pretty easy to do, when I know what to look for but again, as a bookmark, i had to find it and matk it in an igoogle page, when I already a homepage on my computer with favourite pages. I have not yet made use of my igoogle page outside of the project.

However with access to 'word' at the weekend, I did use 'google documents' to create some text which I would not have known about without 23things!

Thing 19 and Thing 20

Well, Google documents was quick and easy and a good way to type up a document rather than having to creat/save a word document, so i can see that it has its uses.

Thing 20, ThinkFree was really annoying. It look ages to upload, or maybe that was just my computer, but given there are so many other ways of saving documents it does seem rather a long winded way of getting something done,

so all in all for things 19 ang 20, I reckon google documents will be the way forward

Thing 18 Wikipedia

Wikipedia must be one of the most helpful things to come out of web 2.0. A search in google often pulls up a wikipedia reference which tends to be pretty helpful, although like most things on the web you might search for a second reference.

It is a great way of sharing information- without having to be the editor of a book, you can insert references to whatever topic you find interesing and which others will find useful. Best of all, you don't have to pay to get the information you need. Which is obviously not so good news for those previously publishing the information or libraries where people would come and read up on stuff. However for a serious, involved course of study, copying it all from wikipedia would be a bit obvious, so hopefully the academic libraries still have a role to play.

Wiki

Ok- I created a page on the Wiki- it was easy to do and set up an account. one thing that's annoying with Wiki's its, once its there, its there. I never found a way to delete the stuff. It can be a good way to share info without having to resort to facebook I guess but I don't genereally use them

Thing 16 twitter network

Thanks to ox23# things it was very easy to publish a post and see what other people had tweeted. Still not entirely sure how useful it be though !

Thing 15 Twitter

Set up the twitter account. It was a bit annoying; a lot a info was needed and it did not like the email addresses/ names I assigned it. It remains to be seen how interesting it will be

Linked in

Maybe I am getting ahead of myself for once, and we should not be writing a blog about our linked in experiences. Anyway, I now have an account. V easy to sign up to!

Thing 13 facebook

Well, I am on facebook so I can see its advantages of keeping in touch with people that I might not have heard from in a while, but other people I still tend to contact by email/ phone.

We do have a library site, with a small but dedicated site. Hopefully these people find our updates useful, or at least the recent pictures of the snowman fun!

Thing 12

well, now i have got my very own subscription to you tube, complete with a tag on the igoogle page. I have watched things on youtube before- and setting up a favourites subscription is better than having a load of random things to look at everytime you type in the url. Although it did mean having to enter a load of personal details into the great www again. Anyway, this blog was a bit shorter than orginally intended, due to the fact as mentioned below, it took so long to get into the blog. Youtube kindly reminded me that the internet browser will not be supported for much longer, so heres hoping for an upgrade (!)

Thing 11 Podcasts

Right, well finally having managed to get into the blog, I can confirm that the podcasts were pretty straightforward. they are really useful, free way to keep up to date with news and events. the BBC ones have particulary interesting content from around the world.

Random Blog

Hallo

Well, before I go on to blog about the next things, I have to say that the things that have tripped me up EVERY time so far, have actually been the blogging itself. the signing in (due to the fact that we are still on IE6 and do not have admin rights to upgrade ourselves) makes me look all over the place, until I give up after about 20 minutes and have to ask James how to login. maybe next week I will actually remember the Sign in - open as new window (or at least this blog will remind me!!!!)

Thihng 10 -rss feeds

This was the continuation of thing 9, whereby another website was bookmarked and we set it into an RSS feed- it seemed pretty complicated, but maybe I was in a bit of a hurry and failed to check it our properly. Again, I am not really sure if it will be of use to me, but i will know what people are talking about in the future

Thing 9

Ok, for the ninth thing, we had to set up a yahoo account which was a bit of a nuisance- i have multiple email addresses/ passwords/ personal info stored all over the web, which makes me feel under the watchful eye of big brother, but there you go (rant of the day). Then we had to find a delicious account so it was quite interesting to see what one looked like- the bookmarks are referred to in most websites that i refer to, but I have never bothered with them before. Unsure of how useful it will be but at least I will know what people are talking about!

Week 3, Thing 5

Talking of getting confused, panning down my site I seem not to have blogged about my RSS feed experiences. It was OK and quite easy to set up, although on the web there are 'favourite' pge settings anyway, so I am not sure if there are any great advantages to a personalised page- at least it looks a bit different, and 'home is home' rather than one page opening up everytime the web is opened. there you go!

Week 4, thing 8

It is getting a bit confusing remembering which task relates to which thing to be honest, but I think the thing is the picnik account. this was much easier to create than the flicker account becuase it did not want a load of my personal details. Handily enough it also allowed us to edit the photo's. whether that is good or bad I don't know (what happened to the 'camera never lies?'). the cat got squashed and then elongated. at least that does not happen in real life.

Thing 7 week 4

Ok., for thing 7 week 4, we had to create a flicker account. It did not take too long and is very easy to do. It is a great way of uploading photo's- I do not have that many on my work PC funnily enough, but my poor cat is getting featured rather more than usual

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8497427.stm

Ok, I have done all my RSS feeding etc, but I could not resist putting in this bbc website link about how 'yesterday' blogs have become :).

Nevermind- I'll catch up with the rest of the world eventually!

Things 1 & 2; adding an image

Ok, I am getting there. I think I have successfully uploaded an image. It was not that difficult after all.

The next thing

Well the 'thing' about the looking at the profiles of other peoples blogs, what they have done so far and their thoughts etc, is that they know so much more than I do. For example I do not have experience of putting up images which will be really useful for the website I maintain. In a web 2.0 thing thought I am not really sure how useful it will be- I have a facebook page for example but often I think people use them as 'status symbols' to show how many friends they have, images of how many parties they have been to etc, so I do not think I will be using it that way.

dvaux's first blog

Hi everyone

This is the third thing I have been asked to do as part of the Oxford 23 things programme. I have never created a blog before so it is quite exciting!! I wonder what "Thing 4" will be?, and also what new things I will have learnt by '23'