Week 8 blog post

I am writing this blog post in Zoho writer. It looks pretty intuitive so we'll just have to see how I do. I just tried to add the calendar I created in the Generators exercise but it opened a new page so I didn't get it to go on this page. Oh well, I'm really not willing to put in the time to figure it out.

For the second part of the exercise I browsed the award winning web sites and settled on Yelp. It allows you to find places and services of interest in a particular city. I used restaurants in Spokane and found some reviews. There weren't very many, the highest number of reveiws for any restaurant was 11, but if the site catches on it could be useful. I think it would be useful for another city, especially if you had your mobile with wireless and could pull up a review right from the sidewalk if you were trying to decide whether to go in or not.

Week 7

Wikis are a great tool and I think we will find more and more uses for them. I added a couple of posts to the Favorites Wiki but I always like such a variety of things that I have a hard time committing to a favorite. I can't identify a favorite web site since the only sites I use on a regular basis are travel sites, ticket sites, etc. I use the web at home all the time for research but usually look at new sites.

Week 6

I have played around with the exercises very briefly for week 6 because I already use del.icio.us all the time. It works really well if you have your own computer and you install the buttons on your toolbar. It couldn't be easier to keep lots of sites "bookmarked" and I use it far more than I ever used the "favorites" just because you don't have to organize them, just tag them. I think del.icio.us is very user friendly.

Image Generators revisited

It's the very end of 2007 so I am fooling around with the Library 2.0 exercises and I did a couple of new image generators. I love my little cube with pics of my dog and I also did a couple of months of a calendar. These generators are tons of fun and may even have some practical application for work, but even if they don't I will definitely use them for personal fun. I can already see invitations and such being generated.