Thing 23--My Two Cents

• See my previous entry for thoughts about the Things.
• My favorite was the first, blogs, and I've got more of them than I can handle. I learned most from podcasting, and as I said, I use YouTube, Twitter, del.icio.us, Facebook, LibraryThing, and Flickr regularly instead of TV and newspapers.
• I keep returning to Google thinking that I might use more of their features someday, maybe.
• What I took away was an attitude about trying and learning, new tools.
• Break it down into 47 Things and I would definitely participate in any extension of the program or even a review of the old one.
• One sentence: Essential for all ages.

Thing 22

Now that I've been introduced to some of this s...tuff I'll be sure to keep abreast of it and all the new things that develop. It's hard to believe that just a few years ago there was no YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, etc., all things I use every day. I can hardly wait for the time when I won't have to leave my desk at all except for bodily functions and, who knows, there may be an app someday for them too.

As for what else we could have covered, I still think 2nd Life is what Web 2.0 is all about.

Thing 21--Social aggregators

Thing 21
The aggregators are ok, I guess, but truthfully all the info is overwhelming. To mix twitter with facebook with whatever--too much info! I would rather limit things to their individual services and just go there when I want to catch up. It ain't that hard. Maybe I'm being old-fashioned here and once I learn better how to use these services I'll see a greater need to aggregate them. Or I'll chuck the whole thing in a pond.

My concern is spreading all the info about myself all over the web and giving access to my personal info to every Tom, Dick, and Connie out there. Juan Franela knows what I'm talking about.