Ex. 1

Yay! YouTube at work.

Okay, I'm officially on track with the REAL exploration and not just my own made up one. Articles read and video watched. Step one complete.

I may end up jumping ahead to Wikis next, since I feel like creating one, but I also really want to line up what I've already done with the program. We'll see how the cookie crumbles. MMmmmm....cookies. I'm hungry.

Flickr

I finally opened a flickr account last week. It's a lot more complicated than I was expecting. I'm not sure if I like it better than picasaweb, but it seems to be less clunky. I'm going to have to play around with it quite a bit over the next few weeks, but it would be better to do at home. I'm getting a bit Web 2.0'd out, to tell the truth.

I haven't even scratched the surface with flickr, I think. I haven't looked at the mash-up thingies at all. On the up side, I added a MyFlickr section to my facebook, so that was kind of fun. Now all of those people that I friended on Flickr will know who I am. I was surprised both by how many more people I know of Flickr, and by the friending process. I guess you have to be approved or added as a friend by the other side before you can really see anything on their end.

In an unrelated note, I started posting note and links in Facebook. I haven't entirely figured out the difference.

TV on the web

I read a really interesting article on the shifted librarian today.
http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2008/03/28/tune-in-at-the-library.html

Not that I didn't already know you could watch TV online. I've been doing that for almost a year, since I gave up cable TV. What I didn't realize was that there were sites devoted to free shows and movies. Our library system has downloadable movies, but I'd never bothered to explore Comcast's fancast. I hope that I can still get into it, even though I don't buy their cable TV. I'm also very interested in checking out Hulu, which just started carrying the original Speed Racer. I may try Joost as well, though I have so much ready access to old movies already, that it doesn't hold a lot of appeal for me, unless there are R-rated ones available. It should be interesting to see how they'd manage that.

YouTube

Set up a YouTube account at home over the weekend. Now you can't get me off of it. So far, I've only added favorites and figured out how to set up a quick play list. It only works in Explorer, though, since I haven't upgraded Firefox. Explorer really works better, but I should at least try the upgrade.

I seriously doubt that I'll be loading any video, but I'll eventually put up a screen cap or a pic.

Off and running

Today I suddenly felt like planning out my exploration of Web 2.0. Yeah, I'm sorta surprised about that as well. So far, I've read up on the 23 things program, read the introduction, and listened to a podcast. I'm very glad that I read that article last week about bandwidth. The gist was that it wasn't enough to have great bandwidth on your end if the servers and bandwidth on the other end couldn't handle the traffic.

Anyway, I'm loosely following the program in the "weeks" order that they chose, but I'll probably jump around within each given month. Enough for now. My carpal tunnel syndrome is starting to hurt.