You Tube Exercise

I like the simplicity of the "Stop Motion with Wolf and Pig" video by dokugyunyu.

(The title appears in English when you point your cursor to the name).

This video could be used as an example of how to take a very simple idea (free association...the first image that comes into your head...a pig and a wolf perhaps from memory of a bedtime story) and turn it on its head.

Aragatoo gozaimasu, dokugyunyu!

Wiki Use

I didn't use Wikipedia much in graduate school because my primary professor wouldn't accept the information as reference.

I think I'd use wikis to trade reviews about books and movies and (I got this idea out of the blue last week) I'm going to cobtact a friend from undergraduate school days to revive our plans to collaborate on a play. I still have the notes from the first act or two. I think he'd get a kick out of finally getting our "project" up on its feet after all this time.

What's your "perspective" on this, fellow tech tapas "students"?

(Note: Some of my entries aren't showing up..I've emailed Andrea and Rob)

Yoshimoto

Tagging

The tagging/social networking exercise took more time than I expected. This is actually good practice for me because I don't automatically share RSS feeds and other "lists" with others. I keep "lists" of favorite books, movies, quotes, etc in my head and am not naturally inclined to assume that anyone else would want to read the list. Maybe I'm wrong.

I'll also have to get used to the "bundling" process. Aggregates seem to be more trouble than they're worth. But I could be wrong.



Yoshimoto

Learning New Technology

I admit to having a mere layperson's comprehension of "state-of-the-art" technology but I continue to expect perfection the first time I try something new. I am getting better at not being so self-critical in the learning process.

The bloglines exercise that I have recently completed will allow me to experiment with creating RSS feeds. Pretty cool.

Yoshimoto