Week 7 - Wiki

I learned that Wiki are sites with information about a particular topic which are open to editing
or additions by anyone. At first I thought what good would that be, you wouldn't know if the information was correct, but once I visited the links provided I see that it is more than just an
encyclopedia.

The booklovers site was full of lists of books in all different categories. You could browse by title, author or genre. I like the most requested guide. It had books I had read and a long list of books I haven't read; many that piped my interest.

The library wiki's we were linked to were very interesting also. I particularly liked the Bull Run Library with it's first page filled with scheduled events and the latest library news.

I can now see how this would be very beneficial to a group or business. With the web being so large and vast quantities of information needing to be posted, this opens the "job" of maintaining a web site over to many people and not just a few. Updating events, agendas, travel information, etc. would become an extremely valuable tool for business.

Now to find a Wiki I can't live without.

Image Generator

I don't know what I did, but while loading a different image this one came up. This is the first image I did.

FancyGems

Ok. So I went to the image generator, created a nice image, captured the HTML clicked the load image and it won't load. I keep getting an error message. I just don't get it. I thought this was suppose to be easy.

Delicious and Library Thing

I did some cruising around the delicious site and wondered why I would want yet another list of places to visit on the web. I wasn't really understanding the true purpose of this until Sally pointed out that Delicious is like having a portable favorites list. Now that makes more sense.

Now Library Thing is truly a remarkable site. I've been keeping track of the books I've read on a spread sheet on one computer. My sister-in-law in Minnesota and I swap titles of good books we've read. She lives in a small town with a very small but quaint library and has difficulty getting good recommendations. This is perfect for her and for me. Now to get all my books on Library Thing. uf dah!

Falling behind

I'm still a week behind. I created an account for bloglines, adding and trashing some of the topics I picked. So far I think I still like going to my favorite web sites and picking what I want to read. Maybe with more refinement I will like it better.

I added more pictures to my flickr account and have sent pictures to family and friends. This is a service I like and will continue to use.

I just started looking at this week's activities. I'm feeling overwhelmed and really admire those of you who are able to keep up. You must spend a lot of time doing these activities or you are already familiar with them.

Maybe I'm slow because I'm middle aged!

Bloglines

I was on vacation last week, so I'm a little behind. This week I opened an account on bloglines and added some RSS. I took some of the sites recommendations and I went to my "news" sites and added their RSS. I haven't had a lot of time to look at the feeds, but I can see how this would save time vs looking at each website.

So much to learn and so little time.