Thursday, August 9, 2007

Don't Feed Me FeedBurner

As soon as I subscribed to FeedBurner, I began to be buried in an onslaught of junk mail and spam! Help! Articles were very lengthy and droned on and on, and I never actually discovered anything useful at all. I get better information to start my day by watching Good Morning America!

When I discovered this, I promptly unsubscribed, and that even took longer than I wanted it! I can find newsworthy items of interest a lot better on my own than this. I learned one thing of value...nothing in this life is ever free--everything comes with a price of some kind!

Space...The Final Frontier...

Just as in Start Trek, space being the 'Final Frontier,' I believe the voyages of the (Star Ship Enterprise) - Learning 2.0, this ship has only begun to set sail, and it will take you as far as the imagination can zoom (at warp-speed)...internet speed!

Totally Awesome!

Alpha or Omega?

Given the fact that two months ago we had our second grandbaby born, I decided to see what Ning's AlphaMoms site was about. It was NOT as ALPHA as I had expected (Alpha being associated with aggression, as in Alpha Male). Cute! It was a harmless enough looking site offering baby names...Or was it?

I clicked on R because my grandson is named Ryan. However, yes! The aggression began. It took for--ever (Omega) to load. Impatiently, I figured, "There are thousands of baby names, so I'll just X-out and move on to another site!" WRONG!

So giving it time to take its stance, I backed away and let it 'collect" itself by posting a blog. Returning, I finally found it fully-loaded, but I suggest that unless you have eternity to spend with the AlphaMoms, "Don't Go Into The Water!!!" Aaaaaaaa!

Award Winning 2.0's - Ohhhh!

Perusing the short list of the award winning Learning 2.0 sites was a very interesting experience. I feel like if this is the short list, how much time could one invest searching the long list of 300-500 sites (with more entering the race even as we speak)!

It pays to listen to word of mouth! "Ohhhh! Check out this new website I found..."

Who IS Craig Anyway?

I can tell that craigslist would be extremely helpful if you were trying to locate anything anywhere--especially something to buy.

It is a list of vertually everything, broken down in catalog style. Seems to me, if you're looking for it--try Craig!

Zoho Isn't Just In SoHo!

Zoho is very cool! I like this a lot better than the PBWiki. It's more user-friendly and offers a great deal.

Not only can you text in chat rooms, but you can also make appointments (and have reminders sent about them as often as you'd like), as well as add notes, insert photos, create wikis, word process, create spreadsheets, schedule meetings, and all kinds of other wonderful things!

I'm glad Zoho is universal, (not just in SoHo)!

Thursday, August 2, 2007

I'd Rather Not Have Peanut Butter, Thank You!

Peanut Butter, alias PBWiki, is NOT as easy as making a peanut butter sandwich...at least to me! I found it left a bad taste in my mouth when I accidently forgot my password and kept getting the run around trying create a new one. I couldn't modify my old username (which I liked and wanted to keep) and just get a new email address. That frustrated me.

But I couldn't even figure out how to edit (at the top of THIS page (like they said) because there wasn't an EDIT button to push on the top of that page...it was on the previous page!

I found this PBWiki to be anything but Easy!