That's why they call it the 'web'

Remember when you were first introduced to the internet? Specifically the world wide web?

For me it was back in the very early 90's; I was doing research for my company and one of the academic types suggested a new tool. WOW. Even at that time, I was amazed at the concept. I gorged my curiosity navigating from one linked site to another.



Why am I bringing this up? Because this week there were a number of neat sites that I either haven't been to, or haven't been to in a while; and this week's assignments brought me back to a couple sites like deli.cio.us. If you're like me, you can wander from the links there all day.



I'd seen libraryelf before, but with the options that ocls.info offers, I don't see the need, and as a 'middleman' site, it opens the possibilities for errors.



I particularly like www.whatshouldireadnext.com; I am often asked by customers what I can recommend for them (using their current reading lists). Will definitely help me -- and them.



A. Calabrese

This is a bye week...time to get out and ride.

Web 2.0

Holy moly, is this a powerful video or what?
Watch it, then watch it again.
Sure portends some serious change.
But not to worry. It's all cool.

While exploring this week I happened on a couple notable sites:

• http://www.43things.com/ : a pretty inspiring and motivating place, and,
• http://www.pewinternet.org/ : a compendium of internet facts. It wasn't too long ago that you'd have to pay consultants BIG$$ for this info.

Got 5 minutes? Take this quiz.
(I am an omnivore.)

Later.

Blogs and wikis and feeds, OH MY!

Week Three of Learn 2.0...
We are introduced to Bloglines. I have already used aggregators, but I like the usability designed into this. Easy to search; easy to use. I moved a couple of the feed I follow over to my bloglines account. Stuff like:

• Engadget (0)
• Fool.com: The Motley Fool (0)
• Kiplinger Personal Finance (0)
• NYT > Technology (0)
• NYT Book Review (0)
• Orange Slices (0)
• The Shifted Librarian (0)
• Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall (0)
• WSJ.com: Markets
  

I'd never been to Grokker. At first I thought I was being introduced to a different search engine. You know, how every search engine claims that it has the latest, greatest search algorithms that will make your life so much better...

What I got was a pretty cool experience. I recently bought a new smartphone and typed in the model infomation. (Motorola Q).
It returned an outline of topics related, but when you hit the 'map view' they are presented by source and relevance in a graphical representation of spheres that interact about each other. If you hover over a sphere, it will tease you with some details.

I ended up buying a desktop charger and some game software...

A. Calabrese