Week 9 thing 20

I've posted this video to my blog from YouTube. THese are clear wing moths. They are dead ringers for hummingbirds except for the antennas. They have very deep green and red colors, which this video is not doing justice to. They have started showing up in my garden.
One note. WHen I go into my blog and edit this text, the video seems to disappear.

Week 8 thing 19 exploring Web 2.0 awards list

I've been mucking aroung the sites on the awards list. I like color blender and I can possibly see some application for this in my own creative endeavors. I wonder if graphic designers find this tool helpful. I've also been looking at the widgets sites. National Geographic has a pretty cool widget. I found this through the Spring Widgets site. Most of the widgets were about things that didn't interest me and seem to suck minutes out of my life that could be better used doing just about anything else. For example, do I really need to know how
many seconds until the release of a new movie?? Okay, maybe some political wonk wants to know the exact number of days, hours, minutes and seconds until the presidential election, but even that seems like a stretch.

Week 8 things 1, 2 & 3

This is a test of Zoho Writer.

Centered

Different colors fonts and size

Here is what I imported from Zoho word processor directly to my blog. Very nice. I can see many applications for the shared documents, especially in our teamwork environment where we are in different locations.

Week 5, #11 Library Thing

I've catalogued some books on Library Thing. I like the ability to see
how other folks have added tags. Cataloguing by the "people". Very
powerful. What would Melvil say?

The link to my page is: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/bmischel

Week 7 things 16 & 17

sandbox village #2
Originally uploaded by Eric K.

I've got sand in my toes. I've been to the MD wiki sandbox. I added my blog address and created a new page. It took awhile for me to link the title to the wiki page, but I finally got it.

It is interesting to see how libraries are using Wikis. Although the down-side, as far as the integrity of the information, is that there is no control over who can add content. This is good for some applications and not for others. That is why I always take Wikipedia with a grain of salt.

week 6 #14 Technorati

I've done the discovery exercise and entered "learning 2.0" in the various categories
on Technorati. The results were different each time. I've also explored the other options
available here. I feel as if I'm missing something with this site. I can't see the usefulness of it.
I'm going to move on and come back to this later.

week 3 #7

Back tracking a bit. A post about anything technology related. I don't have the time or desire to utilize all of the things that I am learning, however, I'm enjoying leaning about it all. 7 years ago I received a gift of a digital camera and went kicking and screaming into the digital arena. I think back to almost 20 years ago when I was working for an organization that was trying to get it's members logged into the Usenet, which was what the internet evolved from and before it became the world wide web. I had to find universities, in the member's city, who would be willing to provide an account for the person to dial into. I was working from home and it was all very "brave new worldish". Times have sure changed quickly. That is the bottom line. Change is quick and if you want to keep up you need to, well..., keep up with it. It is impossible to stay current with all the new technology. Picking and choosing what I want to learn in greater depth seems to work for me.