Wednesday 29 January, 2009
Hello!
Yes, I have completed the Web 2.0 training! - I'm one of those neat freaks who likes to get everything in order before I start anything, so my 23 blogs are all lined up ready to go and at this moment I've completed all my blogs - yay!
I thought I'd better put this in cos apparently people are reading my blogs (go figure!) and they are thinking to themselves "Wow, she's done everything!", but then they open blog 21 and think "Whatthe! is this written in invisible ink or something? ..."
Anywayz gotta go ...
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Friday, July 25, 2008
#23. Is this really the end? Or just the beginning ...
Wednesday 28 January, 2009.
Is this really the end? Yes it is!
Wow! Congratulate me ... I've reached the 23rd thing. Yes, the experience has enhanced my Web 2.0 skills - it has provided me with the information and knowledge to provide better service to our customers and it has been a fun and rewarding experience along the way ...
I'm giving myself a pat on the back for completing the program while I type this out with one finger (heh heh).
Do I still get my cool USB bracelet even though this is overdue by 4 months? Aye, do I? ...
Anywayz, I'm signing off now - I have to complete my survey and then I'm done! So as a final aside ... It's been real ...
Is this really the end? Yes it is!
Wow! Congratulate me ... I've reached the 23rd thing. Yes, the experience has enhanced my Web 2.0 skills - it has provided me with the information and knowledge to provide better service to our customers and it has been a fun and rewarding experience along the way ...
I'm giving myself a pat on the back for completing the program while I type this out with one finger (heh heh).
Do I still get my cool USB bracelet even though this is overdue by 4 months? Aye, do I? ...
Anywayz, I'm signing off now - I have to complete my survey and then I'm done! So as a final aside ... It's been real ...
#22. eBooks (a.k.a the end is in sight ...)
Friday 23 January, 2009.
Oh my gosh!
I tried looking for my favourite authors on Project Gutenburg but it kept coming up with "Error - No author found" - what happened to Jamie Oliver? Rick Stein? Gordan Ramsey even?!? ... I gave up after a while and headed for the Top 100 - as of today the Top 100 Ebooks downloaded yesterday was 'The Inaugural Presidential Address by Barrack Obama' with 1379 downloads.
I also had a look at ebooks.com and *wow* the stuff you can download - pity you have to pay for it, although I guess it is a bit cheaper than buying the book, but still ...
Oh my gosh!
I tried looking for my favourite authors on Project Gutenburg but it kept coming up with "Error - No author found" - what happened to Jamie Oliver? Rick Stein? Gordan Ramsey even?!? ... I gave up after a while and headed for the Top 100 - as of today the Top 100 Ebooks downloaded yesterday was 'The Inaugural Presidential Address by Barrack Obama' with 1379 downloads.
I also had a look at ebooks.com and *wow* the stuff you can download - pity you have to pay for it, although I guess it is a bit cheaper than buying the book, but still ...
#21. Podcasts (You don't need an iPod!)
Wednesday 28 January, 2009.
Check it out ... Podcast.com is awesome!
There were heaps of subjects to whet anyones apetite/fetish/obsession, especially mine for food - so I checked out Crash Test Kitchen (Videos) http://podcast.com/show/712/, which I added to my bloglines account. At the time I was looking at this podcast they had recorded 74 episodes so far.
"Crash Test Kitchen is the ORIGINAL video cooking podcast, as featured in Time magazine. CTK is about real people cooking real food. We're Waz and Lenny, two foodies who can't stay out of the kitchen. Unlike other cooking shows, there's no here's-one-we-prepared-earlier fakery, we share our disasters as well as our triumphs, and we'll beat eggs with a power drill to get the job done (which I thought was quite funny - just like Bob the Builder!). Join us and be confident that if we can cook it, you can too!"
I also checked out a Book review site - I searched for Book review as a subject heading and picked the first one to pop up which was Nancy Pearl Book Review Podcast http://podcast.com/show/7077/, which I also added to my bloglines account.
Apparently Nancy Pearl is a librarian with a love of books so strong it has been officially classified as lust (wassup with that - or as I should say what the!).
Check it out ... Podcast.com is awesome!
There were heaps of subjects to whet anyones apetite/fetish/obsession, especially mine for food - so I checked out Crash Test Kitchen (Videos) http://podcast.com/show/712/, which I added to my bloglines account. At the time I was looking at this podcast they had recorded 74 episodes so far.
"Crash Test Kitchen is the ORIGINAL video cooking podcast, as featured in Time magazine. CTK is about real people cooking real food. We're Waz and Lenny, two foodies who can't stay out of the kitchen. Unlike other cooking shows, there's no here's-one-we-prepared-earlier fakery, we share our disasters as well as our triumphs, and we'll beat eggs with a power drill to get the job done (which I thought was quite funny - just like Bob the Builder!). Join us and be confident that if we can cook it, you can too!"
I also checked out a Book review site - I searched for Book review as a subject heading and picked the first one to pop up which was Nancy Pearl Book Review Podcast http://podcast.com/show/7077/, which I also added to my bloglines account.
Apparently Nancy Pearl is a librarian with a love of books so strong it has been officially classified as lust (wassup with that - or as I should say what the!).
#20. discover YouTube and a few sites that allow users to upload and share videos
Thursday 22 January, 2009.
Woo hoo ... YouTube Rocks!
It's amazing the stuff they have on YouTube - I decided to do a search for one of my favourite actor/singer/comedians - Jack Black (he's awesome!).
Some of the video titles were a bit 'riske' so those ones I flagged (coz hello - Big Brother is watching!). I thought the Gladys Knight skit he did with Ben Stiller and the dude who played Ironman was quite funny.
One thing I found a bit frustrating about the site was the constant stop/start playing during the clips ... aaarrrrggggghhhhhh!!!!!!! ...
I also took a look at Conan the Librarian and I only have one thing to say - dude, what's up with the late fine penalty?!?
Woo hoo ... YouTube Rocks!
It's amazing the stuff they have on YouTube - I decided to do a search for one of my favourite actor/singer/comedians - Jack Black (he's awesome!).
Some of the video titles were a bit 'riske' so those ones I flagged (coz hello - Big Brother is watching!). I thought the Gladys Knight skit he did with Ben Stiller and the dude who played Ironman was quite funny.
One thing I found a bit frustrating about the site was the constant stop/start playing during the clips ... aaarrrrggggghhhhhh!!!!!!! ...
I also took a look at Conan the Librarian and I only have one thing to say - dude, what's up with the late fine penalty?!?
#19. Discovering Web 2.0 tools
Thursday 22 Janurary, 2009.
Oooooooo ... Another chance to talk about food!
From the shortlist of Web 2.0 Award nominees I chose my favourite category ... what else ... Food!
I had a look at the 1st place getter imcooked - Cook it. Film it. Share it. - A web community for video recipe sharing, and as I was browsing the site the 'most viewed' video was 'Watch Christopher Walken roast a chicken' (what's up with that?!?) which was viewed 218,373 times (yikes!). I thought roasting a chicken standing on its legs a bit strange, but hey, whatever works!
Then I searched for my favourite food (if you've been following my blogs - heh, heh - yes, say it with me ... Eggs, eggs, glorious eggs!) and found how to cook a 'Cheese omelet' in under 5 minutes ... nice!
Oooooooo ... Another chance to talk about food!
From the shortlist of Web 2.0 Award nominees I chose my favourite category ... what else ... Food!
I had a look at the 1st place getter imcooked - Cook it. Film it. Share it. - A web community for video recipe sharing, and as I was browsing the site the 'most viewed' video was 'Watch Christopher Walken roast a chicken' (what's up with that?!?) which was viewed 218,373 times (yikes!). I thought roasting a chicken standing on its legs a bit strange, but hey, whatever works!
Then I searched for my favourite food (if you've been following my blogs - heh, heh - yes, say it with me ... Eggs, eggs, glorious eggs!) and found how to cook a 'Cheese omelet' in under 5 minutes ... nice!
#18. Take a look at some online productivity (word processing, spreadsheets) tools
Thursday 22 January, 2009.
Yay! The end is in sight ...
I have created an account in google docs and have had a play with the applications. I have used the excel spreadsheet in the days when I used to look after the teenage services at Mangere Bridge managing the Manix competition online (aahh those were the days ... not!).
Anyway, the programs are pretty basic and if you get stuck the instructions are pretty good.
Yay! The end is in sight ...
I have created an account in google docs and have had a play with the applications. I have used the excel spreadsheet in the days when I used to look after the teenage services at Mangere Bridge managing the Manix competition online (aahh those were the days ... not!).
Anyway, the programs are pretty basic and if you get stuck the instructions are pretty good.
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