Week 9 #20 Youtube

I liked this video. It reminded me of every family picture session known to man in spirit if not in actuality.

That being said, while I have always enjoyed the videios that people occaionally send me, there was an awful lot of stuff to wade through to find something to worth watching.

It might be useful to make a video to project during crafts showing in detail how to do something a little complicated like braiding or tying a knot, so everyone can watch while you are helping individuals.

Week 8 # 19 Web Based Apps-- Zerowriter

Zerowriter seemed simple to use, and if you don't have Word, seems to do alright, but their fonts are limited and I LOVE fonts. I may have to use it or lose my recipe book if I ever got my own omputer. I thought that since cookie season is upon us, I would contribute a really yummy cookie recipe for my zohowriter exercise. The name is gross, they look gross, but they are simple to make and yummy to eat. The original is in Gross Out Cakes by Kathleen Barlow

Doggie Doo-Doo Drops

Makes 20

1/2 C. Milk 1/2 C. butter or Margarine

2 C. Sugar 1/2 C. Cocoa

1 C. chunky peanut butter 3 C. oats

1 tsp. vanilla

1. Measure milk, margarine, and sugar into medium saucepan.

2. Mix on medium heat.

3. Stir until mixture comes to a boil. Boil for 1 minute, stirring

continuously.

4. Remove from heat and add cocoa, peanut butter, oats, and vanilla.

Stir well.

5. Mold handfuls of the mixture into doggie doo doo sized cookies. Place

molded cookies on waxed paper to cool. For a more decorous

appearance, drop cookies onto waxed paper to cool.

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Week 8 # 18 Social Networking

Social networks are too much like Elaine the Lady of Shalot. Not the reality, but the shadow. For one of my hermit proclivities, I don't think I would like to social network too much. I have a feeling it would just be too aggravating. After all these years of pretty much not having to look at embarrassingly bad personal photos, I'd hate to get trapped now. Besides, if you don't have time for your friends in this dimension, how are you going to find the time to micro-manage hundreds of strangers in another dimension? Nice for shut-ins and agoraphobics,although dogster is tempting.

P.S. Great video! Loved those dogs!

Week 7 #16 Wiki

I finally got the first part of this week's assignment done. I don't think I'd use it for reference. Wikipedia is notoriously inaccurate, nor would I use it when I was writing, since I don't usually want to share my baby, but I can see it would be great for making bibliographies-- Books Boys Like, Books Children Like, Books for Toddlers etc.

Week 7 # 17 Technology

I am doing #17 before #16 because the Wiki page was busy, so I thought I'd get this out of the way first.

Technology. Sometimes our friend, but frequently not. I am a Neo Luddite. Which means accept that technology which makes your life better, but do not use it if it does not. Use the lowest level of technology adequate for your needs. Do not e-mail a message to someone across the hall if a note will do as well. Do not talk to someone on your cell phone who is sitting across the table.

I do not wish to be connected to everyone all the time. Those little ear thingies look like the first step to being a Borg. (Resistance is futile...) and being part of the collective is abhorrent. The thought of never being out of easy reach gives me the jim jams. I do not want to "interact" with everything. I don't want to be pestered by a minute-by-minute account of anything, even my best friends lives. I have my own to live.

Frankly, until you can use an e-book or computer in a bathtub full of bubbles and hot water accompanied by Diet Coke and chocolate, the book is safe. Unlike a computer, a book frees the imagination to create our own reality. The author guides us, provides a framework, but the reader gives the creation life, colour, taste, smell --a world. A computer/ video does all of that and the viewer is trapped for better or worse, in someone else's universe.

The technocrats from Library 2.0 missed the point. Yes, computers are handy for finding facts. I have to say full text magazine databases would have saved me many crazed, frustrated hours as a student. But a Library is more than fact and research. Once you have left school most of us are not doing "research". We don't need the factoids so beloved by Ed-u-cat-ors. We need the best way to build a deck, find a recipe, participate in a hot romance, capture a murderer, or invade England with the Normans. We want an old movie, a song from our youth, a friendly face, a chat with a kindred spirit face to face in "real time" about shared interests-- out of the house. Some of this can be accomplished by computer and it's kindred, but not all of it, and not always in the best way.

Added Comment to: Liberian

Week 6 #15

To a Temporary Place in Time...I liked this article best and the last part best of all. Library 2.0 seems to focus narrowly on research and information to the exclusion of the best part of the library. Library 4.0 actually implied that there is a place for books and dare I suggest this....Readers?! I'll do the part for the people who actually like to read (and there are still many and will be until I retire) and let the techies run the rest. I know many people to whom the library is more than just a collection of bits of information, and it is not information that they are necessarily seeking. As Louis IV said "Apres moi, c'est deluge" I'm sure if you spend an hour or so Googling it and wading through many pages of irrelevent websites, you can find the translation.

Week # 6 Technorati

Interesting. I have to say it was a fun way to waste an hour. I was almost tempted to use the link that can generate letters to the FBI etc to get your file. My biggest gripe today is the lack of definitions. WHAT IS A WIDGET, WHAT IS A MEME????????? I know what a widget is in real life, but what are they in faux life (computer)? and where would I find my html code assuming I wanted to tag it?