The end is nigh

One thing's for sure, I know more about web 2.0 than I did before.
I am still mildly confused about tagging etc. But i think it may just be like Scanner Darkly, simple plot but you come away feeling confused.
And I am confirmed in my thinking that the internet is useful after you know what you are looking for, not before. It needs a reason, then it's no end of useful.
So good night, and good luck.

Man, that was boring

If only I was running a small business or something. The content I found on netlibrary was boring and very limited. Though I didn't look up Catherine Cookson or Dan Brown. But I didn look up Guatemala, Che Guevara, Metallica and Star Wars ( for, you know, some variety.) All of which came back with either one or two refernces to the subject, or nothing at all. Sorry that's incorrect- there were guide books to Guatemala. There where no books specifically about (or by as the case may be) these subjects.

I have found more interesting books on http://www.gutenberg.org . And who can argue with free literature.

Bear in mind/ Beer in mind

Ah... podcasts. Again I had more success looking for podcasts from specific websites than using any of the suggested directories. Mainly because I couldn't think of anything to search for... and the results were all too vague and nothing really stood out as listenable.

That and downloading any software was just too slow.

So I went to the bbc website and as I suspected, there's plenty of podcasts to be had there.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/directory/station/worldservice/
Again, I was kind of going about it the wrong way. The internet is most useful when you know what you want. If I had a subject in mind to research, then I could see benefits to podcasts. So, I shall bear podcasts in mind.

Oh mi god, liek thisis soo cool!

I'm just not in the mood for watching kids being injured, or animals doing cute things today.
So here's a link to some trusty ol' music....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbTozgoj9OQ
Hooray for youtube and being able to watch stuff one wouldn't otherwise see. (Not a reference to the injured kids and animals.)
Also, I found out that I don't like Gregorian chants, no matter what they are covering.

Sunshine, rainbows and lollipops

It's Friday, it's a short day, and I am being paid to do my 2.0 stuff. I am inside, so I can't hear whether or not the birds are singing - but I assume so.

I browsed the list of awards (#19), and checked out a couple of sites.
I liked http://www.onesentence.org/for it's profoundness and irony. That and I don't like having to read long stuff, so one sentence suits my level of commitment.

I also checked out http://www.etsy.com/. Some if the stuff is butt ugly crap. But it's good for getting (stealing?) ideas.

Yo, yo, yo; zo, ho

Yea, so at least I can see a use for online word processing etc. Though I never found that online typewriter, maybe that's better.
Good to know this type of stuff is out there.
The best use I can think of for it, is to have information available while travelling. But what are the advantages to having your stuff online rather than on a flash card?
When will you be able to save word documents onto your ipod, now that would be handy.

Sadbox wiki

Ah Sandbox Wiki, how useful information is when you have a tonne of people adding to it with no rules. I'm trying to be open minded.. but come on. I guess that's the difference between good and bad... good is usable - bad is a bunch of monkeys typing. (Can't remember the exact number of monkeys, or how long they'd have to type for.)

I can't imagine sandbox being useful. In all the uses I can think of; it would take as long to set it up, tell everybody about it, they figure out how to use it, and remember to; as it would (for example) to go on the camping trip.

But I'll bear it in mind if I ever decide to go camping.

By which time we'll be up to about web 9.0.