Beyond #46 - My Web 2.0 - part 1

I had a look thru Technorati and came across this site http://www.wordle.net/create

I thought this would be great if you’ve found an article or report and want to find out what the keywords are for further searching – what’s mentioned most?


This is an example already done




I’ve tried a couple of examples:



Original article: http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24663336-952,00.html



Another test



Original article: http://www.ato.gov.au/corporate/content.asp?doc=/content/00169431.htm



Greater prominence given to the most used words - might be good for the obscure or the basic researcher.







At the 2008 ALLA conference, we were introduced to this YouTube video by Michael Wesch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Wesch - the first one listed, The Machine is Us/ing Us (need a standalone to view). I highly recommend viewing this video re the Web 2.0 – it is a great representation of the way that technology has changed and the use of mashups (with catchy music too!). A nice intro to the use of this technology which might be good in a training situation, providing you've got ability to use a standalone to view it.

Thing 46: Updates!

Revisiting the original 23 things...



Thing 21 Discover some useful search tools for locating podcasts.

I had originally had a look at this site: http://podcasts.yahoo.com

One thing that is definitely new since I did this is that apparantly this site doesn't exist anymore so perhaps my blog entry was correct - may as well just search for podcasts in search engines, not need a special search engine/page for it

I did, however, find a couple of specific search engines by Yahoo:

http://video.yahoo.com/ - for video

and one for audio

http://audio.search.yahoo.com/audio - did a search for abc.net.au and found a few hits.

As it says Find audio files from across the Web including music, podcasts, interviews and more I guess that they've expanded coverage.

I still think it's easier to just do a search for podcasts within a particular site or on a particular topic across any search engine.


Thing 13 Learn about tagging and discover a Del.icio.us (a social bookmaking site)

http://delicious.com/ - the site name has changed - no need to remember where those dots are anymore!

re registered and found it much easier this time round to navigate & add entries etc

The layout of the site is much different from what I remembered; a lot easier to make sense of the results and the layout of the tags is much better.

Big improvement for this site!!

Thing #45: Go with the flow - flowcharts & mindmaps

Used Mindmeister & Gliffy for this one.


Mindemeister - Mindmap

This is a boring Christmas card/present list (couldn’t think of anything exciting so made up a bunch of names) - useful for the more visual of us - a different take on writing lists as well as the more normal project stuff, outlines of reports etc

Very easy to use.

It takes awhile for the insert to come up, but copied just fine




Gliffy - Flowcharts - used it to create a lounge room, so it's not just stock standard flowcharts

http://www.gliffy.com/publish/1540774/ The embedding into blog html code didn't work, so have a squiz at this instead.


http://www.gliffy.com/publish/1540779/ Flow chart here (I don't think I've ever actually used a proper flowchart to make use of the all the symbols as they name them).


Both very easy to use. Good for a one-off project that it doesn't matter who sees what you're up to. Very WYSIWYG.

Thing #44: Nag yourself

http://jott.com Jott

Looks very simple, quick & easy to use. Guess it's one way around endless bits of paper that then get misplaced. Would be heaps quicker than adding to a PDA etc.

I found the New York Times review of Jott plus other services can use on your phone was most useful http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/technology/personaltech/05pogue.html?scp=2&sq=Jott&st=cse

Thing #42: Google Groups / Usenet

Well, I found it interesting that anyone is using this system, given the plenthora of alternative discussion groups/lists availabe. It does seem that useage is once again on the wane - probably because there's just so many possible channels available now. It might have worked a bit better on a standalone - Google was pushing out ads at me for some of my searches which obscured the screen somewhat. And what about phrase searching!! A bit too basic and frustrating for me. Would be of value from a historical viewpoint.