Thing 23

Well, thats all 23 things done.
Thanks to the organizer(s) for giving me some impetus to sample these Web 2.0 things. I would never have done so otherwise. It is still early days for 2.0, and it may become 3.0 before the programs tried here have a decent life span.

-Most favourite (useful) Thing: Google Documents.
Straightforward and works.

-Least favourite (useful) Thing: LinkdIn
No discernable advantage over any other network and plagued by viral reminder e-mails.

Twitter Thing 15 + 16

Not too keen on Twitter.
Following #ox23 and a few other individuals but only enjoying the humourous sarcastic stuff for some reason. Even less useful without a smartphone/Crackberry.
Will not be a Twit in future, thanks.

Youtube Thing 12

Youtube is extremely interestng in that although it displays a lot of copyright material it also displays a lot of instructions on how to get around copyright, and even more serious, laws. Hackers seemingly can't wait to share their info with the world and although this results in many hacks becoming obsolete fairly quickly the reaction is almost always too little, too late. It will be interesting to see how quickly, with the iPad and Kindle e-readers out, how quickly e-book copyrights are sent down the drain.

With music for example, the Digital Piracy laws passed yesterday, all deal with P2P sharing. However, using Youtube, as an example, it is easier and legal to just download music off Youtube. Simply install RealPlayer SP (free) and it will open a window to download and convert to MP3, any music or video you have on YouTube.

From previous use of Youtube it would be much improved with greater gradation of privacy access similar to what Facebook has.

Podcast Thing 11

Added BBC Global News and Test Match Special podcasts to Google Reader
Could be useful although not much more effective, if at all, than BBC iPlayer which I generally have motivation to use from other sources anyway.
So just adding to information overload really.

Googledoc Thing 19

The good thing about doing 23 Things out of order, in this case...Google Docs is far superior to the Java based ThinkFree. More responsive. More intuitive.
Thank you very much.
Good night.

But first the Powerpoint Presentation I uploaded from my son's files......

ThinkFree Thing 20

Not enthused by this. Clunky and slow...basically the Java creates an unneccessary layer of software even if just doing basic wordprocessing.

igoogle + delicious = Thing 22

I think one of the offputting things of 23 Things is endless skipping back and forth between programs. Whether this will be less annoying with future hard/software, like Tom Cruise in Minority Report, remains to be seen. Suffice it to say I would never seek out a job where my eyes would frazzle with shifting screens all day. Better to work on the motorway picking up road kill.