The Twenty Third Thing

Well I think I have completed the web 2.0 programme. It has been truly entertaining and engrossing. I am delighted so many colleagues got into it.
Key learning outcomes for me? Confirmation that I am an I.T. plodder. I work at it. I get there. I am not a natural. Although I have an open, critical mind and can see applications and potential in the technology I struggle with.

Some of the downside revolves around artificial limitations to the potential of this technology. Imposed firewalls, regulation based on suspected messing about - that sort of thing. Plus the reasonable caution required for security reasons.

Also, the endless signing up with all the associated passwords and etc, plus the inherent spam and etc risks that come with this.

Wikis in particular are the going thing, and all the bits and bobs around web 2.0 are the stuff that makes a good wiki. I am looking forward to getting stuck into developing training wikis.

Regards and thanks, Lovegod

Audiobooks

Wow! I remember the Gutenberg Project from way back. Long time no look. There is some fantastic audio stuff there now. I once tried to re-read The Return Of The Native in online text form. Impossible. The audio files are an appealing idea. MP3 via headphones in bed, or on the portable while cooking or doing the dishes. Appeal of the readers varies on a limited dip.

Podcasting and Bloglines

Enrolled in Bloglines. Don't like the way the enrollment process appears to require selection from a set podcast menu before validating. Did that then deleted my selection and ran a search to register one I wanted. Deals for dough I guess. Works OK and keeps extra software off my PC.

Web 2.0 awards, hosted wikis category. Almost a review

Wetpaint was the winner in this category. The promotional push for this product is ease of use. The claim is for 500,000 wetpaint wiki sites. I am going to make it 500,001.
Done. It was very easy. The blog is Nemesis of Tower Of Blog. I am not surprised to see that my blog comes heavy with ads. For this reason, Blogger suits me better.

web 2.0 awards, last fm

Oh deary me, one of the obnoxious, unavoidable downsides of web two point zeroing is the tedious requirement to continuously sign up for stuff. That said, lets explore one of the nominees for the web 2.0 awards - last fm.

Eeek! This requires a download and installation. I expect this to be blocked for valid security reasons.
Yup. One for home.

Zoho: a web application

This is a document produced using the web application Zoho. It appears to function in a very transparent way, mostly via buttons. Little use of drop-down menus.
Lets check the spell check. Colour and color. Passes.
Eeek! it has an "emotions" button!
Now checking available fonts. Everything I would normally use is included.
I like the link button: Click here for Wise Woman
How about a table:

tie	a	yellow	ribbon	round
the	old	oak	tree

Sizing is dodgey.
Doesn't appear to have a formatting brush, which I would miss. Otherwise pretty nifty.
Now lets see how to get this into my blogg.

#17 Playing around with PBWiki

Just a note that I have previously "done this". Added my blog etc.