Kaptain Keil – Ponderer Extraordinaire
A few random thoughts floating in cyberspaceArchive for 2.0 Program
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
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
Kaptain Keil - Ponderer Extraordinaire 