Thing 12 -- Digg, Mixx, Newsvine, Reddit

02/29/2008
Okay so more ways to read articles online ... do I have the time? Sometimes yes, sometimes no, sometimes just glancing at the good old newspaper(s) seems to work. I think it's one of those things where you catch an article title online, click on it, read it, and then somehow you're off onto another topic and time has flown by.

I read this article "I'm the Idiot Who Bought an HD-DVD Player" that was linked on pg 2 of Digg this morning. The topic caught my eye because I had very recently been asked if my DVD player was HD or Blu-ray. I bought a new DVD player about a yr ago -- shortly after I purchased a HD TV. After reading this article I think that I'm luckier (for now that is) than the author, Josh Levin, because I have the plain old regular DVD player/recorder which I bought to transfer my videos ("home movies") to DVD.

I looked at the other sites -- Mixx, Newsvine, and Reddit. I didn't like the "look" of Reddit and would not consider this a choice. Mixx I think is on par to Digg. Newsvine looked more like what I consider the "traditional" online news sites such as the New York Times and ABCnews.com.

Share tools -- I read this article on the New York Times online "A Lifetime of Pain, and She Still Will Not Complain" by Paula Kamen. The article was of interest to me because my daughter has suffered from migraines for years. I used the "share" tool on the NYT site and posted this article directly to my facebook acct. This was very easy & seamless to do and offered an area to comment before the actual post went to my facebook site.

Thing 11 -- Del.icio.us Tagging

02/22/2008
Tagging! Yes! This is one of those things that's been on my list of to-dos for maybe a year or so. I have so many web bookmarks on my office computer & then my co-worker has numerous web bookmarks on her office computer as well as 2 other computers. Years back I kept a webpage of all of our links for sites we visited often in assisting patrons (students usually) with research. That webpage finally became so cumbersome that I took down the link several years ago. I always hoped to find some other way to quickly be able to use & share these valuable links. I happened upon Del.icio.us and thought, yes, this might work. I shared this with my co-worker, who said she'd look it over, but then that's about as far as it got. So now maybe is the time?

Furl -- I looked over their website and one thing that popped up as a good benefit was the option of achiving cashed websites which allows for you to always have access to the website as you viewed it even if the website is taken down.

Thing 10 -- Wikis

02/22/2008
The wiki concept of collaborative authoring is interesting because of the ability of multiple people to add to, edit, update the topic content. The falldown is "who" is allowed to doing the adding, editing, updating to be able to ensure correct information is given.

I liked the BookLoversWiki and see this as a good use of a wiki. Although I found more books to add to my "need to read" list!

On the 23 Things on a Stick wiki I centered "Welcome to the", I italized "23 Things on a Stick", and I added the link "23 Things on a Stick BLOG page" -- (jd was here!) is me!