Technology related blog - as instructed!

This exercise is to write about technology in your blog. This is going to be a stretch - I haven't had time to even play? properly as time this last couple of weeks will and has been very tight. I've read about some of the new technologies coming - paperless text - the "paper" for want of a word is one that stores the image of text on a film thingo and it stores it for about 24 hours - if I'd had the week I've had I probably would have never seen it!!! It's supposed to replace paper - but if it only lasts a certain time is it worth it? It would be very good for temporary things. Just reading "Splendour of Letters" by Basbanes - interesting proposition on how some books/papers were only meant to be kept temporarily - but have become a permanent record by the nature of the content - what to do with a chalkboard of a list of firemen who went to the World Trade Centre and only 4 came back - it is now preserved because of what it represented. How did they preserve it - they encased it in plastic, now it is an object. Will libraries be able to collect this "temporary technology" for notes written by artists/authors/ etc. A challenge - especially as the whole premise is to disappear. What thoughts for a Sunday!!!

ZOHO

I've looked at Zoho - looks good. I might start using it, but haven't got the time today to do a thing. Not even to do a twiddly thing such as using my blog from there - I have enough problems trying to get my normal blog thing up!

image generator

Found one I liked - delft plate one. Hopefully I will be able to capture the image of this on this blog. www.royaldelft.com - Design your own plate. I can't capture the image at all.... It appears to be a problem - so what else is new?

Flikker

Looked at Flikker - too fiddly - don't have the interest or the inclination to use it and quite frankly don't have the technology. Never will I suspect. Interesting and can see it's usefulness, but otherwise nice to know about and that's about it.

#8 and 9 stuff

Had a look at Technorati - not much sense to me. I found it difficult - I suspect I am very word based and this just caused my brain to fuse. Tagging was fine - I think I do understand that one better. The Del.ic.cious? whatever seems to have everybody raving about -seems to be a defintite fiddle - might be ok if you had multiple accounts or something but bored the heck out of me. Seemed too complicated for words - I'll probably not bother unless forced to.

RSS feeds one

RSS feeds one - CNET thing didn't work - just froze all the time - complete waste of time. RSS gives me the heebie jeebies....not my cup of tea. I think it's junk mail in a different format. Not for me at all - if needs be I will do it, but I won't be happy about it! Why make it hard? I find this whole exercise a fiddle - nothing is easy it all crashes about and you have to keep logging in everywhere - why this fuss and bother????? It gives us an idea on the stuff I suppose - but ignorance is sometimes bliss...the less I know the happier I am.

#4 Wiki

Just looked at some wiki's (not sure if that's the correct spelling?). I found the one on the genealogy focussed ones, and the libary fictions one quite interesting. Was interesting they didn't have a certain "famous" fictional librarian Miss Zukas listed. Ah well....can't be perfect all the time.

Mostly very slow loading, and quite frankly I was very interested in most of it. I know the principle of it, so I guess that's the main point, I suspect.

Might be useful in the future for an in-house wiki for manuals and stuff? Not sure if it is appropriate, but might be a development of the future, as it sure looked like the Catholic University one had all the development of an online manual!