twitter

I spent some time exploring twitter and found it very interesting.

I found out that scientists at Sony now have a twitter device for cats which transmits data to a PC, which automatically posts it on twitter.  It tells what the cat is doing, such as, "This tastes good."  Hopefully, there's a message to convey, "I love this DVD!"

I searched "Calgary" and someone mentioned that in Calgary "we get random spills of snow."  And in searching "chocolate", I found that one person said, "I hate toothpaste srsly why cant it taste like chocolate"

My thought on twitter, ............ people have a lot to say and want to be heard.  Some of what they say is meaningful, some not.

Library Thing

I have spent quite a bit of time browsing Library Thing and find it really interesting.  I think there are many practical applications, both personally and at CPL.  For myself, the book recommendations, book reviews, and author pages would be very useful.  I don't know that I would get into the social groups, but I find them interesting concepts.

At the library, I have already recommended Library Thing to a woman who wants to list books she reads and find out about similar books.  I will definitely recommend it to other customers.

Online Productivity Tools

I can see myself using Google Docs since I don't have MS Word.  It was easy to create a document.

I would definitely not use Google Calendar as I find an actual daytimer much more convenient.  Maybe I'm old-fashioned!

It is definitely good to know about these tools.

Flickr and YouTube

I find a high quality of photos on Flickr.  Being the curious cat I am, I could look at these for hours!  And if I were a better photographer, I would find this site very useful for sharing photos with other people.  User friendly?  Yes, although at 1 time I saw where you could look at similar photos on this site and when I went back to explore it again, I couldn't find it!!

YouTube has a variety of quality content and usefulness.  I find it very entertaining and love it when people forward funny videos to me.  I find it quite user friendly and I am now able to search for videos.

RSS - Bloglines

This really is a cool thing!  Every morning I get new info from my chosen blogs and websites - all in 1 place.  I like it a lot and it leaves me more time for celebrating.

Google

Google is set up especially for curious cats!  One can search any topic at all.  I browsed various products and services and focused on 2 - similar images and news.

I began by looking at images of waterfalls.  When I found a special one that was particularly awesome, I clicked on similar images and saw pictures of waterfalls that resembled it in some way.  I decided that in my next life I would do a tour of the world based on beautiful waterfalls in various countries around the world.

Also I spent time on a few different days looking at news from Google.  I find it set up quite well with headlines, images, and news stories.  It is updated continually throughout the day.  I did however miss the local news.

Definitely, I would recommend these Google services.  And for the more curious among us, I would suggest looking at the Google doodles that began in 1998.  Some of them are cool!

Facebook friends

Facebook - useful or a time - waster?

Personally, I think it can be both.  We choose how much time we want to spend connecting with friends, playing games, ........  Facebook helps me with my curiosity about what's going on in people's lives.  This week I got an announcement about the birth of my newest great - niece (with pictures of Megan with her mom, dad, and brother), news of friends who live far away, and news of nieces and nephews traveling.  I also keep up with local friends - their goings - on, their fun times, and their new ventures.

I do have limits regarding time spent on Facebook. 

I do enjoy Facebook and find it useful and fun!

Wikipedia

I enjoyed searching different topics in Wikipedia.  I had a hard time finding any articles to edit. 
I especially had fun reading articles on animal communication and interspecies communication.  And I decided that a person would not have to buy or even read the above book if we could learn to communicate better with our cats!

Curious we are!

I spent a lot of time, just being curious about Best Websites on Delicious.  I learned about social bookmarking, tagging, organizing and sharing Internet sites.  How comfortable am I with it?  I feel like I'm still kind of in the dark.  I am most comfortable with the right-hand column listing tags and tag bundles.  I have used this and will continue to use this part to access sites such as government, employment, and phone/postal sites.

Being a curious, cool cat

Curious cats are way cool! And we're all just like them - curious. And being curious, I hope to learn about the different technologies in this program.