Home Stretch

Week 10: Yay! Yipee! I've made it this far. If I can keep my wits about me, I should get through this with a modicum of dignity. And speaking of dignity, I can think of no surer way to lose it than to muck about in the overly-eager world of friends online at MySpace. I did create an account there but, I was rather unspecific about personal facts.
I'm not sure how we would use MySpace for our purposes, but I'd love to create a site called Newburgh Noir and see how weird our local MySpacers really are. Just a thought. Maybe, I wouldn't really want to know -- "Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of Men?"

Podcast -- BBC Scotland

Last week, I went looking for an interesting podcast. I found a few good ones (Meditation - for wellness, Bad Buddhist Radio and Alan Watts) but, I was unable to install them, so I went "mainstream" to the BBC of Scotland.
I once visited Scotland for 2 weeks and I hope to go back again. Above is a view of "New Town" including Princes Street and the shopping area as seen from the Edinburgh Castle. Library Lass has already given us a view of the castle on the wiki.

Numa Numa

This was the first YouTube that anyone ever sent me. Love it still.
Romanian Pop song as lip-syched by some computer jockey.

A New Set of Tools

Just for fun, I went through that Web 2.0 Awards list and seized on http://www.last.fm/ -- which is a "radio station". I wonder how or if it will translate to my blog. As for "work", see Zoho Show (for online slide presentations) just to the right.

Death by PowerPoint

From: thecroaker, 3 months ago

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Fighting death by PowerPoint... How to make a presentation and not to bore your audience to death.


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The Week Off

I'm glad that Jeannie called a moratorium on this project. I know I was finding the pace a bit demanding. This gives me a chance to go back and digest a few things. For example, Flickr was not compatible with Blogspot/Blogger, at least, I didn't find it so. I did as much as I could with it but I knew I would have to go to Picasa.

Halloween Week Tasks

Week 7: I have been "using" wikipedia for some time. I know it is subject to editing of a dubious sort, so I take it with a grain of salt. It is fast, like the meaning of wiki implies (Hawaiian for quick). Do I like the idea of a democratic encyclopedia? Maybe not, because I'd like to think there is some kind of editorial authority. How can we sort facts from puffery? Will my virtual presence on the net make me able to spot lies and spin?

P.S. I went for a tour of nfl2wiki. As soon as I remember what I used for a password etc. I'll do some entries in PBwiki. A library wiki for all the procedures, not to mention rules and policies, is a fantastic idea.