Week 8: #18 Social Networking

There are many pluses about having a social network...

Such as finding friends in the same field of study or career, finding habit (such as going out to party), or just having the same taste (such as having a dog or cat).

The only problem that I see in these network societies is that these pictures can be seen around the world. You have to be really careful about the things and words you place up there.
When your a kid in high school, then it may not hurt you now. But if your looking for a job in the future, then the future practices may be that they will do a background search and not hire you or fire on the spot. Every action can come with it rewards and it consequences in the future (online or offline). But even with such cons, the good outweights the bad. Especially if you have a group of people helping each other with math homework, or better yet, building a better car a better hydrogen car. If you can blog it, then they will come.

Week 7: #17 Blog About Technology

With all the consumption of gas and it's prices... I which to focus on an alternative way of getting energy (electricity). Of all the technology that is out there ...

I guess I which to talk about an article that I read about "Power station harnesses Sun's rays"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6616651.stm

It uses mirrors to concentrate on a single point (a building) to build up heat (or steam). Without internet and technology advances in computer and video... I wouldn't have been able to know anything about the advanced in fuel efficiency.

Nice article and video. I also made a comment on EboneeGurl's Blog.

Week 7: #16 So what's in a wiki?

Anyone can use and edit the wiki's websites....
Which can make them easily lose creditability...
But even then, it is a very good website to begin your search....but it should be the only resource that you use for your reports or essays.

I did add my blog website to the list of Favorite Blog Website ....

Week 6: #15 On Library 2.0 & Web 2.0

Information need to flow for it to be useful.
Libraries do also need to change with the information age.
Information is not only text but graphics and even videos.
There are so many tools for both librarians, staff, and public users to collaborated information.
Information is ready available and the librarian could guide them and intructed them at to which is reliable.

I also believe that they will be a time somewhere in the near future, when everyone will be able to request information from a 3d hologram. This 3d hologram will be able to have find your information, have conversations, and stay with you until the late hours of the night teaching us everything about math or history.

Week 6: #14 With Technorati

Found out many thing blogs about different topics...
I also decided to use the blog search within Google search, and found differences....
Found more search results from Google Search (almost twice as much), but more use information from Technorati Searches.

Will try other searches later on..... To see who will win the battle of the blogs search....

Week 6: #13 Tagging makes the web 2.0 world go round

I already had an account with del.icio.us and do see the benefits of using an online social bookmarking services. There have been many times where people have created favorites in their browser at home. The problem is that when you need them most, you are not at home. Or even worst, the computer breaks down and you've lost all your bookmarks. Some of the bookmarks, you may be able to remember, but some will be lost forever....

Week 5: #12 The "Library" Elf will remind you!

For personal reasons, I do not want to share my information. Talk to a reference libary, an they said that it was fine not to give away my account information. But I did go to the website and found out about all their services that they provide..

Week 5: #11 A Thing about Library Thing

Did create an account with LibraryThing.com and place a couple of favorites and recent books that I have read...

As you can tell, I like fantasy and computer books....
Did place the widget thingy on the side bar within my side bar.

Week 5: #10 Play around with Image Generators

After trying many of the Image Generators, I eventually went with the herd and stuck with Meez, but I did enjoy the Dummies Book Cover Maker.
Hope you like the virtual me!

Week 4: #9 More RSS

Did a little more on RSS and found http://www.topix.net/rss/houston.

It found local news and weather... will place these feeds in my Gmail and my Bloglines...
Just name the topic and you will find tremendous about of information at your finger tips....

I did find that by going to the websites that I normally use, they all seem to have RSS feeds.
I've also added the RSS Feed from the Houston News on the sidebar as well .....

Week 4: #8 - RSS

I did my RSS and found it to be quiet impressed by the websites that are providing this service.

I normally use RSS within my Gmail account.
But was able to use it and did find a couple of new tricks with within Bloglines....

I did participated in a number of tech issues and USA Today feeds, but I also enjoyed some of the feeds about cars. Within one of the feeds I was able to find some code the show local prices of gas.

It should be on the side bar.....

Week 3: #7 Photo Editing Tools

I did this for my wife....

That's funny...

I showed this to my co-worker and the first thing that she said was "What did you do wrong?"

Why does a women automatically assume that a man has to do something wrong to do something good....

Well enough about me....

Added some text to the picture that I had before with

http://www.picnik.com/ and changed the borders....

And this once the outcome....

Week 3 - #6 More Flickr Fun

I also decided to add a calendar to a wallpaper that I found on the internet...

This was done from a website that uses the flickr account's pictures.



http://bighugelabs.com/

Hope you like the calendar.

Week 3 - #6 Mashup

Will see if these will come out....

This came from http://metaatem.net/words/