Kaptain Keil – Ponderer Extraordinaire
A few random thoughts floating in cyberspaceForgotten program …
Sadly I have negleted the 2.0 program. I have been following the discovery releases and quickly glancing at them but I must admit thats all I’ve been doing lately. I did fully participate in all discoveries doing alot in each until #11 Online collaboration. After that I only glanced at the releases saying that I already do those or I’ll get back to that and post a blog about it later. But truth be told I have learnt too much from this program with twitter, RSS, blogs and I am fully using them with my Mo-brarian efforts. (Shameless plug: visit mobrarians.wordpress.com to see what i’m talking about)
So I guess I am saying that I have admitted defeat and unless a miracle occurs I will not be posting a happy blog update saying that I have fully researched all discoveries.
I have enjoyed my time in this program and it was good to meet Michael Stephens and talk to him about his efforts in getting 2.0 out there in libraries etc. I am looking forward to seeing the results of programs like this and I hope we get to be part of the finished product in some way.
Well that all I have to say for now. I am going to switch over to my other blog now and sit and stare at the screen until something to say comes to mind …… I suck at blog posts.
Mo-fully yours,
KaptainKeil.
What I’ve learnt …
First off I’d llike to note that in my last post days 4,5,6 should have been 5,6,7. I blame lingering effects from the weekend festivities.
Diary Summary:
* This diary highlighted that I do not use many internet functions in my day to day work. So far my 2.0 journey has been about what I can use in my spare time and what I may use in the future. I like the idea of 2.0 and I plan to continue to explore it. Hopefully I will discover some more useful tools and applications during this journey.
* I can make goals.
* I can not always meet goals.
* I can not commit to daily entries. No mortal can. It is beyond the realms of possibility. The idea of a daily diary entry is a myth made up to lull gullible fools like me into beleiving that they can commit to something. Its a vicious system – I get the idea into my head that I can do something – my many fans get excited about me doing something each day – I fail to do it because I am only human – my fans then get dejected and are left with this lonely, empty place in their hearts that my commitment would have filled.
* I rant. I go off on tangents. I start a point, my mind wanders, I think about something else, I start to type about that instead and then I am completely off track and away from where I started and I do not even seem to notice and I lose track of where I was going with my thoughts. I think it is because my own thoughts are so interested in the new direction that they then forget themselves and what they were trying to tell me. I really only have myself to blame, I am so awesome that my own thoughts are in awe. Now, where was I ….
One entry a day plan …. ha!
Well it was a bold ambition. One diary entry each day for a week … who could ever commit to that kind of pressure? So here I am on a Tuesday morning about to give a 3 day wrap up of events.
Day 4
Dear Diary,
Friday started with the usual morning routine, twitter & RSS. Again work meant that I could not do much throughout the day so I had intentions of going home that night and working on some mashups for Amelia, and to get some practice and ideas using mashups for Movember. But, like all of my good plans, that fell by the wayside. Late in the afternoon I found out that Amelia had had a bit too much to drink during her corporate golf day and that she had made plans to continue her festivities with her work buddies late into the night. Well, I said, that leaves me open to get up to mischief. And mischief I did get up to. I will not bore you all will the details as I think you will lose a little respect for me.
Day 5
Dear Diary,
Well after last nights efforts I awoke feeling rather unimpressed. I had not intentions of sitting at a computer. I then found out that today was the races, the races that we had tent tickets for. Oh dear, God is punishing me. More drinking and mayham. But wait, there’s more! After the races we had box tickets to the Fury game! more drinking! I did not even look at a computer this day!
Day 6
Dear Diary,
Sunday dawned and I grudgingly got myself out of bed to drag my sorry behind to the bookshop to work. I get to work only to discover that my boss was there already and had opened the shop. Strange, I thought. only 1 person normaly works on a sunday. Well true enough, only one person was working. My boss. I was not rostered on to work that day. So I dragged myself back home to the couch where I watched movies and did nothing, nothing, all day long. My nothing carried on into the night as I did nothing with the computer except send a quick email to my father explaing why I couldn’t be bothering answering his call earlier that morning.
Well I have now run out of time and must start work. Later tonight I will give my final entry and I may decide to add it all up and give my opinion on events so far.
Days 3 & 4 …
Day 3:
Dear Diary,
I had no internet access all day.
Day 4
Dear Diary,
Well today started with my morning ritual of checking email, twitter & rss. It is important to know what is happening elsewhere in the world, if you dont know about something then it hasn’t happened.
The rest of the day continued as any other work day with general duties taking me away from a pc, thus denying me any oppertunity to use 2.0 technologies. Just when I thought this was going to be yet another 2.0-less day, the long awaited first meeting of the Super Mo-brarians Forward Planning & Ideas Generating Leadership Group sat down to discuss some very important details. Our goal of world domination one Mo at a time has commenced! No longer will upper lips remain barren, no longer will women be comfortable kissing real men, no longer will the meek male librarian sit quivering whilst his femaile counterpart dominates the charity fund-raising events … uuhm, that is all during the month of november of course. The rest of the year we will of course cleany-shaven kiss the ladies who don the pink ribbon.
Anyway, I digress. At this llittle sit down of Super Powers we talked about using quite a few 2.0’s, I even quickly jumped onto WordPress and started our Mo-brarians blog. I am very excited at what we’re attempting to do, but I will not give too much away now. Oh no my faithful readers you will just have to wait until Movember!
Day two …
Another day spent at work with minimal time in from of a pc. I did manage to get into work early and check out my twitter and google reader so there were not too many to sort through when i got home. I think that will be a regular schedule.
During work I did not manage to use anything 2.0 related except twitter which i checked in the arvo to kill time …. Ummmm I mean as part of my 15 minutes per day 2.0 time. When I got home I intended to do nothing on the PC but Amelia had other ideas. She had heard me talking with my dad about some of the mashable projects you can do and she wanted me to put some photos of her netball team together for their presentation thingy. I’ll get around to doing more than just looking up websites tomorrow. Might even post the results 🙂
Still 2.0-ing … Introducing The Diary!
It has been a few weeks since I blogged so I would like to say sorry to my great mass of loyal followers that read this blog.
The original intent behind this blog was as a means to talk about, monitor progress and demonstrate applied knowledge of things learnt in the 2.0 program. So far I have not been using this blog for those reason. OK, a few posts here and there to say that I have done this and that, buts thats it. We have come a long way in this 2.0 program and I feel that I learnt about things that I will continue to use long after the end of the program. In keeping with the spirit of this blog, and to try and publicly improve my 2.0 participation, I will be keeping a daily diary for one week to monitor what I am using from this program and just how often I use it.
My goals:
Post once a day
To be honest (not try to use the 2.0 techneques just so I can report on them)
Try not to ramble
Try to make some kind of sense
So here goes …..
Dear Diary,
Today I am not off to a good start. Normally I arrive ultra early to work and this gives me plenty of time to access a computer, but today I arrived with just enough time to get my stuff away and make a coffee before I got stuck into the daily grind. Carrying loads of books from point A to point B all day long did not give me time to sit and use a computer so I had to wait until I got home before I managed to use anything. Thanks to a nice add-on in Firefox I was immediately informed that I have half a bazillion (give or take a few) unread tweets to read, I only follow a small number of people but they are really chatty! Half an hour of reading and following interesting links and I was ready to move onto my next use of 2.0, Facebook. I admit that I am a bit of a nerd, I play face book games. After battling it out in mafia wars and improving my superhero I chatted with some friends that I wouldn’t normally talk to unless I was at the pub. Well after I was done with them I left the computer …. lets just skip to the next part involving 2.0. OK, So a while later I came back to the computer to continue my nerdiness, watching anime. Then I realised that I have been telling myself to start this diary, so I dusted the cobweds off my blog and here I am.
Well the first day seen me use 3 2.0 discoveries. 1 of those 3 I had been using prior to this program and the other 2 I will probably continue to use after this program as I find them very useful. It may appear that I do not like using this blog but thats just not true. I do like it, I do like to read other blogs. Its just that I dont have a use for it now, one day when I’m all grown up and have informed opinions I will be shouting them from the rooftops, or this blog. Most likely this blog cause I dont like to climb. Damn, just realised that I have already broken a goal …. damn rambling, its a curse I inherited at birth. Dont know who gave it to me but I will find them oneday and then I will have my revenge! MWHAHAHAHA …. ummm, ok. Anyway, so ends day 1.
Long time no blog …
Well my ultra cool blog has been sitting idle for a while now. I like the concept but find I fail in the application.
My 2.0 progress continues but I find I am using some discoveries more than others. RSS is a godsend, twitter is just plain fun & entertaining and tagging is not a new concept to me as I use tags on my personal photo collection at home. Other discoveries I dont think I will use as much. Mashables were fun and I did make a music clip on Animoto but to make another I have to pay. Flickr looks good and one day I might get around to putting things up but we already have photos on facebook and do we really need two sites to share photos with friends?
Well now I am off to look at the latest discovery, Delicious. From what I have been told think this one could prove to be quite useful as I generally jump from computer to computer at work and at home.
So my 2.0 journey continues … slowly but surely :Þ
Flickr-ed
Well some people were having trouble finding my Flickr page. Turns out I didn’t sign up correctly.
There are 3 steps to complete when you sign up, I skipped #1 completed #2 and just plain ignored #3. But its ok everyone, I’ve just fixed it. Found a stupid photo of me to use as my profile pick, finished entering in my details and added a couple of people as contacts. Now that I finished I don’t know if I’ll ever really use Flickr again. Not as cool as some of the other discoveries that we’ve been doing in this program.
Anyway, if any one would like to check out my silly photo’s of me up to no good then do a Flickr search for KaptainKeil :Þ
RSS = Awesome!
OK, I’ve been a bit slack recently with this 2.0 program. But worry not everyone, I am back on track. I LOVE rss. It has just made this so much easier! I personaly use the google reader because I like the simplicity of it. Easy to add URLs, easy to sort into groups and manage feeds, easy to see when a site has been updated.
I think this has been more enjoyable and useful than the other tasks we’ve been set. I like my blog page but struggle to find things to write about. I enjoy twitter but my page seems to fill up with a few people who tweet alot. RSS is proving a much more managable service.
I’m going now to find more sites to add :Þ
Plan A still in motion
Well from my last blog you may think that I have given up on my plan to hide away in computer gaming heaven. Well you’d be wrong. I enjoy a challange and getting Amelia into playing computer games is a BIG challange. So time for an update on Plan A:
I always knew that the CSI games would not captivate her for long as they’re limited once you solve the case. I knew that I had to get her hooked on something that she’ll be able to play for ages. Now I don’t normally listen to what she says when she gets home from work but sometimes things sink in, and the other week I just happened to catch the keywords I longed to hear. “Sims 3” and “New PC”. Apparently the girls at work are all into the Sims range of games and Amelia would like to try the new Sims 3 when it comes out so she can talk about it with them at work. They tell her that her computer will not be good enough and she will have to get a new one cause it is da bomb and will need a kick ass pc to run it. Well I know this is not the case as our pcs are already well equipped to handle any game I wish to play, but I’ll not pass up the opportunity to upgrade some things. So I gathered up some old console games that I havn’t played in ages and off to the game shop we go. I trade in the games, buy a few to keep us amused, and pre-pay for the Special edition Sims 3 game that will be released early June.
So now I’m waiting for our new upgraded pc, complete with working DVD/CD drive, and sacrificing my game time to keep Amelia happy and playing games. All the while just giving subtle hints about sims 3 and keeping her interested. One enticement that seems to work really well is … “When we have the two pcs we can play Sims 3 together, real quality time just the two of us.”
Kaptain Keil - Ponderer Extraordinaire 