Wikis Week

Setting up one PBwiki for my daughter and her friends (grade 6-8) who are staying Guelph during the spring break. But it took me for a while to figure out how the things work properly. Understood the basics. I think it is a great tool for the educational use and the community building on the web. Not sure how will it be useful in my working area in the future. I like the clean look of "PBwiki" (sidebar). But I found Wetpaint is easier to edit the page and use the tool bar. Thank God that Amanda will give us a kind of break for two weeks soon!

Feeding Week

It's an eye-opening! Again I chose the "Google Reader" since it's easy, simple and clean. Established my web based news-stand-station for myself. Might be good to check wherever I'm. My work station (luckily 7 Explorer) makes it easy to organize all the FEEDs. Great tool to check publisher's web. and other's blogs. All I have to do is to click once in a while. I logged on the "Photopage Web. interface" which Alex kindly introduced. Not tried yet. But I sent one to my daughter. She might have been using it long ago? I don't know.
My Question;

How do you publish your own RSS?
When I searched other's sites, if they have RSS, then I know right a way because it highlights my Feed icon on my computer. Buy many publishers do not seem to have RSS function yet. I noticed that all Mac families have already.

Blogger vs Wordpress

Wordpress looked promising to give you detailed and pretty page. Therefore I opened one.
Soon I was curious about the Blogger ... What's the difference? Ummm... It's easy to use, simple and it's from the Google. (even I figured that out!) For now I will stick on to the Blogger as my official one... but I will use the Wordpress for personal posting

HOLLIS

Top 10 reasons why I like HOLLIS (Harvard University intergrated online catalogue)
http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/3K7VK5X21A2GJFEUTIGQ3JTPS5MM32X853565BBU4VRJFTSY25-24465?

10. You can start searching without pondering much
9. You can sort easily after you see the search result
8. It gives you original language
7. Detailed, correct, many useful bibliographic information
6. Indexed well
5. Easy to use even though you are a stranger
4. Do not have duplicate records
3. Clean and well maintained
2. All infor. intergrated in one page that you don't need to flip over
The number one reason I like the site is ;
1. The site has a clear logic

Will it Work?

2005 - Cancelled print journals and buy online products
2006 - Consortia purchase and tossed out prints... prints
2007 - Creat blogs and checking other bloggers
2008 - Chatting and walking rather than e-mailing in my global cyber world?

I have a young (guy) friend who is the 1st year Engineering student at our University. I asked him " Why do you come to the library?" He replied "To escape my computer and games at home and find a quiet place to study for an exam" I asked him again "What if you find the game room at your library?" He looked at me said "It freaks me out!" (whatever that means!)