13--TAGGING & DELICIOUS

Tagging and Delicious seems to one-in-the-same, they are both time saving and convenient. delicious is exclusively a 'tagging' site that allows the user to view a myriad of other user's web sites (tags). The user simply finds a web site of intrest and saves it to their Delicious account for all to see the knowledge sharing possibilities are limitless for both private and business..

8 & 9--YE OLD CAN O WORMS ! - FACE BOOK -

Whew! blast from the past overload, people from high school 30 years ago geez-lueez ! do i even want to know these people? personally i wanted to join facebook but never got round to it so the facebook thingie was quite timely to me. most people have heard of the abuses on facebook and the dreaded myspace. abuses seem to be very common in this arena, this is kind of scary to me because quite frankly, i don't know what I'm doing. i see friends on facebook talking to someone and now i know that there going on a trip in July, i could be someone else, I could rob them blind! i know, i know, privacy settings! but dose that not defeat the purpose of social networking? as of yet i can't see an application for face book in an institutional setting that would not cause problems. maybe with time and or feedback i will change my mind....

THE THINGS

6 & 7--READERS & RSS

Web readers are like a port(reader) where ships(RSS) come in from different places . this analogy is how i understand web readers and RSS feeds. A web reader is a collection of web sites all in one central hub, this is a cool idea, i was disappointed however that it did not include all the fancy bells and whistles, but i could live with that if i had to access info quickly such as in a library or a business. but isn't this just like a glorified favorite list?..........