OK. I finally got around to creating my wiki so I'm anything but wiki (Hawaiian for quick). Like the other technologies this was a very simple process. The wiki is located at
http://synergism.pbwiki.com
If other Blue 2.0 participants want to help in the construction, send me your pbwiki e-mail address and I'll give you permission as a writer.
Social bookmarking is an interesting concept. It had not occurred to me that I might want to access my bookmarks from a remote site. The toolbar button makes it a no-brainer and the tags make it sortable. Cool.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Blogged Down
After much delay, Mr. Bill has returned to his old Kentucky blog (be it ever so humble) to catch up on Blue 2.0 assignments.
Tagging – Easy and potentially useful for blogs with a good deal of content. Of course, tagging blog content when there are only four entries two of which are “video” tagged is useful to the extent that one learns how to do it in preparation for the day when there are 87 entries of which 16 are videos.
Posting comments on other blogs – Again, easy. But, for me, the non-typist (see blog post #1), this is time consuming both in terms of reading the other blogs and then typing and editing and re-editing what will be a brilliant response for all to see online. I think using an alias might be part of the answer for me to avoid concerns about grammar, spelling and content. Then, rather than having to craft a thoughtful response (“I believe your extrapolation of the data is fraught with erroneous assumptions that contradict your major premise and, therefore, undermine your deductive inference.”) I could simply do a stream of consciousness thing (“U r a idiot and dont know nothing about what u say.”).
Bloglines – OK. I’ve got feeds for everything from dog news to environmentalism to jokes. I think there is a trend afoot that runs counter to being an expert. I tell my class when I discuss specializations in science that an expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know practically everything about nothing. With the plethora of blog feeds and podcasts and twitters and whatnots we might be moving toward knowing less and less about more and more until we know practically nothing about everything!
Wikis will have to wait. My mind has become blogged down for the day.
Tagging – Easy and potentially useful for blogs with a good deal of content. Of course, tagging blog content when there are only four entries two of which are “video” tagged is useful to the extent that one learns how to do it in preparation for the day when there are 87 entries of which 16 are videos.
Posting comments on other blogs – Again, easy. But, for me, the non-typist (see blog post #1), this is time consuming both in terms of reading the other blogs and then typing and editing and re-editing what will be a brilliant response for all to see online. I think using an alias might be part of the answer for me to avoid concerns about grammar, spelling and content. Then, rather than having to craft a thoughtful response (“I believe your extrapolation of the data is fraught with erroneous assumptions that contradict your major premise and, therefore, undermine your deductive inference.”) I could simply do a stream of consciousness thing (“U r a idiot and dont know nothing about what u say.”).
Bloglines – OK. I’ve got feeds for everything from dog news to environmentalism to jokes. I think there is a trend afoot that runs counter to being an expert. I tell my class when I discuss specializations in science that an expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know practically everything about nothing. With the plethora of blog feeds and podcasts and twitters and whatnots we might be moving toward knowing less and less about more and more until we know practically nothing about everything!
Wikis will have to wait. My mind has become blogged down for the day.
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