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.

Thing 21, Blogger Gadget(s)

-Used Blogger Gadget to display Flickr Photostream, Google news, and rearrange Gadgets etc.

Things 17 + 18 Wikipedia

Made an edit on Wikipedia:

Here's the original:















Changed some sexing info about male Kuhli loaches, as one does:
















The changes weren't perfect... it will be interesting to see how long, if ever, someone else can resist improving my writing style.
Wikipedia illustrates the good and bad aspects of constant tweaking the Web. It appeals, justifiably or not, to those who want, somehow, to be part of the scientific method, but also to those who criticize the transient nature of everything on the Web.


Then, back to no.17:
Modified a description of Twitter on OUS Lib. Web 2.0 usage page:

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.