Further comments

The things I enjoyed most with 23 things were:-
Week 5 - books online - Librarything and Librivox
Week 9 - U tube (lots of fun and a big time waster) and I already had a love of podcasts and had subscribed to Radio National podcasts and Cochrane podcasts
The week that was most frustrating
Week 3 - photos and images - I found it very time consuming trying to work out what I was doing
The week I would have loved some help with
Week 4 - The links weren't working, I couldn't get a bloglines account going from my home computer but did manage to get one going from work - but haven't yet subscribed to any newsfeeds - hope to do that this week

Sunday Summary

Well! This is week 10 of 23 things and I have attempted everything. I haven't achieved success in everything though and some things after a cursory glance I decided not to bother pursing - namely Facebook and MySpace. The thought of creating more passwords and accounts defeated me. I can see if you are trying to get a message out - linking blogs with Facebook / MySpace and Twittering about it will provide more opportunities for people to 'hit' on your message - though with everyone using this medium to get 'messages' out the probability they will 'hit' on your message must be severely reduced or otherwise it must be a very important message or have some popular appeal. These social networking sites have certainly enabled the Iranians to get their message out to the rest of the world. Thank goodness for the sites existence in this instance. However I still have yet to determine how I could employ the sites in a useful way in my work.
Good thing today though - I have discovered Dig radio and I might just blog about this for my activity 7 exercise.

Delicious and Technorati

Delicious is very useful as I work in two locations. Having my bookmarked webpages available wherever I am will be great. Not quite sure why I would wish to share my bookmarks but maybe this will happen as I use the site more. Tried accessing Technorati but when a pop up box insisted that I had 'won' something and I could only get rid of it by exiting the site I decided it wasn't something I wished to explore.

Books Online

I did enjoy the Books Online session. I'm trying to recall what I did and enjoyed about this session as it is now a couple of weeks ago. I can remember it being a late night as I was thoroughly immersed. I did create an account, 'catalogue' some books, browse through some collections, join a group and read some comments in Library Thing. I daren't take a peek to refresh my memory as I will become thoroughly distracted and still be sitting here after midnight. I also liked the idea of LibriVox and downloaded 'Enchanted April' to my Ipod. Though it was a little disconcerting listening to an American accent when the setting is England in the 1940s. I do love audiobooks, radio plays etc so I think this may become a favourite site. Not sure what I got out of GoogleBooks though I do recall looking for Aphra Behn. My favourite session so far.

Dinosaur Dinner

End of week four and I still seem to be sunk in the mire of week 3

I seem to have downloaded Picasa and uploaded some photographs. Such is my excitement I even sought out and found the lead that connects the camera to the computer. Such is my technical competency I seem to have taken 'movies' as well as 'stills'. However it is easy to see that this is completely unintentional as the camera is swinging in a blurry arc from boot to path, boot to path. The thing that seals my fate as a dinosaur is the fact that I cannot now find how you switch the camera to 'movie' mode. Maybe the camera has been designed for dinosaurs like me - it is intuitive - when switched on and moving it decides you wish to taking moving pictures.

Here is my 'creative' work for the week - a small collection of photographs taken during my short escape from the Cochrane Conference in Freiburg. How could I not take a walk at the edge of the black forest.

Comments about how I am going

I cannot believe how time consuming this is. I have not had the opportunity to do any of 23 things at work yet so maybe the fact that I am trying to do it in the evenings makes me especially slow. I seem to go in circles and it is certainly taking me more than an hour a week to accomplish a task. Blog is created and Flickr though not mastered is attempted with some photographs uploaded and a photograph from the site added to this blog.

Looking up at the Eucalypt

Looking up at the Eucalypt
Originally uploaded by yewenyi

mmmm trees!

I liked the name of the group 'up a tree' all photographs have to be pointing up a tree. The directions for submitting photographs to this group include the statement 'if we can see the ground chances are your camera is not pointing up a tree".

Getting started

Is this week three of 23 things? A little late getting started as per usual. However having now taken the first small step maybe the momentum will build and drag me along until I am propelled onward by my enthusiasm alone. On the whole I think this is an excellent idea - making a point of setting aside time to do this each week is going to be the difficult part. The opportunity to 'play' in youtube, facebook and all these things that I hear about but never venture into will probably be a good thing. I write these things off as nothingness for people who have too much time on their hands - I would like to be pleasantly surprised.