Facebook uses Thing 13

Facebook.
What is it good for?
In Oxonian library terms, it allows people from all over the world to increase their cache by having the word `Oxford' in their `fan' pages. Ummm thats about it as far as I can tell. There are a few die hard local fans who like to crack witty remarks in response to any announcements made and I guess it is a more visual way to `tweet' than Twitter, but in general most people/bona fide students seem to have enough information and data overload/avalanches to shelter from, that they don't seem particularly attracted to starting another one. Whether this will change before some recognisable new revolution 3.0 happens, remains to be seen.

LinkedIn Thing 14

Went and signed Costanza up for LinkedIn, but had to be very careful since, from previous personal experience, I know how insidious and viral LinkedIn can be, sending never-ending harrassing `update your profile' messages to you and anyone who is on any contact list you innocently give them access to. Stay away!!!!!! This is by far the most useless social networking site.

oh yeah.....Things 5+6................ check

Things 9 + 10.....check

Well this looks like turning into a bit of a hash, since it appears Blogger is connected to Google, while Delicious is more Yahoo-oriented. But then so is Flickr. I guess they need to be able to be hacked together to remain faintly commercially viable until such time as they disappear or are Borg'ed into a greater collective. Resistance being futile and all.

Things 7 + 8

I have skipped a few things (like Things 2 and 4, so far). Computers and their artificial unintelligence aren't fantastic yet at non-sequential, unorthodox, or flexible working. Yet, unsurprisingly, humans get by.

Sidebar: interesting that predictive text is so widespread on phones but who would have that on their desktop keyboard?

Relatedly, my userid doesn't seem to match whats on the list on the Oxford 23Things sidebar... [Now magically corrected! -Thanks!] But then I am used to having people `correct' the spelling of my name. In fact, the HMRC (Revenue) computers still manage to find me despite their human inputters arbitrarily changing the spelling of my name at random from year to year.

Upper Flickr image below Picniked as per orders from OX23oberkommando.

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Things 1 to 4

So far, so skeptical. I can see it as a grand time waster, although I have enough of those already. I often wonder how much of current society's time is spent wasted on learning the ins and outs of the latest software which will all be obsolete within a year or so. Any time `saved', or information gleaned from these endless `introductions to' programs is essentially lost, never to be regained. Call me a cynic but.......
Oh for the good old days of DOS and C:> del *.*

That's two minutes (above) I'll never get back......



Ok thats 3, 4 done...
now 1+2: