Before I started 27 Things, I went to Technorati to look for information on customer service. I found some entertaining videos. One of the videos had an interview with a manager who spoke for thirty seconds about customer service. She must have practiced explaining things quickly. She made magnificent use of thirty seconds.
This experience with Technorati was boring. I found no difference between a regular search and an advanced search.
Next, I went to 'Search Post', then clicked 'Search Blog'. Following that I entered 'Entire Post'. Then I entered 'Tags Only'.
The next click interested me. It was 'Popular Blogs'. After clicking 'Videos', I was surprised to find few links to each video. When I went to 'Music', one of the titles had 31 links. The title is You Visit Me Not by Sonnie Day.
I then clicked 'Tags'. Something surprised me. The top search was 'taskbar'. 'News' was second. The last item on the list of fifteen was 'ibm'.
The Walker
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
DELICIOUS #13
Delicious is fun to explore. I think of it as a search engine which gives me a break from Yahoo and Google.
I found '50 Fascinating Lectures All About Your Brain'. There were few comments. None of them seemed objectively or subjectively interesting. Though there were few comments, the article was saved 159 times. The only tags that seemed unusual are 'awareness' and 'brain storming'.
I went to the list of lectures. I clicked 'Music and the Mind'. When I got home on Sunday evening, I watched 'Music and the Mind' on You Tube. I liked seeing the long camera shot of the little lecturer against the huge screen.
He, Aniruddh Patel, PhD., said two things that I remember. Even though birds sound musical, they do not create music like humans do. Each generation of humans changes its cultures' music. Birds do not change their songs from generation to generation.
The second thing he said that I like relates to Parkinson's Disease. People with this illness walk better when they hear music with a beat.
As of now, I do not see how Delicious is different than a a blog.
I just went to Google and entered "lectures about the brain". Fourth on the list is '50 Fascinating Lectures All About Your Brain'.
The value of Delicious for me is in the enjoyment I get from it. It does not seem to be an unusual tool for research. One can surf the web or search blogs and find the same information.
What I like about Delicious is that one might find a tag that kindles the imagination, or find a poster or blogger or tagger one would like to read all the time.
The Walker
I found '50 Fascinating Lectures All About Your Brain'. There were few comments. None of them seemed objectively or subjectively interesting. Though there were few comments, the article was saved 159 times. The only tags that seemed unusual are 'awareness' and 'brain storming'.
I went to the list of lectures. I clicked 'Music and the Mind'. When I got home on Sunday evening, I watched 'Music and the Mind' on You Tube. I liked seeing the long camera shot of the little lecturer against the huge screen.
He, Aniruddh Patel, PhD., said two things that I remember. Even though birds sound musical, they do not create music like humans do. Each generation of humans changes its cultures' music. Birds do not change their songs from generation to generation.
The second thing he said that I like relates to Parkinson's Disease. People with this illness walk better when they hear music with a beat.
As of now, I do not see how Delicious is different than a a blog.
I just went to Google and entered "lectures about the brain". Fourth on the list is '50 Fascinating Lectures All About Your Brain'.
The value of Delicious for me is in the enjoyment I get from it. It does not seem to be an unusual tool for research. One can surf the web or search blogs and find the same information.
What I like about Delicious is that one might find a tag that kindles the imagination, or find a poster or blogger or tagger one would like to read all the time.
The Walker
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
#12 ROLLYO
My adventure with Rollyo got off to a slow start. The podcast did not work. When I searched the linked searchrolls, only two of them interested me. At Books in a Series I typed in Hannah Arendt, but got nothing. Then I entered The Hardy Boys and was provided some links.
At Readers' Advisory I had a good experience. I entered Sacramento Public Library, then was given a list of links. The link I was impressed with is www.yelp.com/c/sacramento/libraries. A list of local libraries is provided. The searcher may rate local libraries.
When I went to Rollyo, I forgot that the user is to enter a short address for the blogs to be used in one's search engine. I found some great sites, but they have long addresses. When I entered the long addresses into Rollyo, it deleted most of the information to the right of the slash mark.
The addresses that remained did not provide links to the addresses I liked.
I chose baseball. A book I read a long time ago is at www.indiebound.org/book/0195059131. The title is Baseball: The Golden Age by Harold Seymour. It can be purchased through links at the site.
My favorite baseball site is about Curt Flood. The address is: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~class/am483_97/projects/brady/flood.html.
The Walker
At Readers' Advisory I had a good experience. I entered Sacramento Public Library, then was given a list of links. The link I was impressed with is www.yelp.com/c/sacramento/libraries. A list of local libraries is provided. The searcher may rate local libraries.
When I went to Rollyo, I forgot that the user is to enter a short address for the blogs to be used in one's search engine. I found some great sites, but they have long addresses. When I entered the long addresses into Rollyo, it deleted most of the information to the right of the slash mark.
The addresses that remained did not provide links to the addresses I liked.
I chose baseball. A book I read a long time ago is at www.indiebound.org/book/0195059131. The title is Baseball: The Golden Age by Harold Seymour. It can be purchased through links at the site.
My favorite baseball site is about Curt Flood. The address is: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~class/am483_97/projects/brady/flood.html.
The Walker
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
A Break from 27 Things
Hi Everyone: I have been reading about the Spanish exploration and settlement of California. I'm reading translations of original documents.
A diary entry I enjoyed was written by Fray Juan Crespi while he travelled with Gaspar de Portola in 1769. Two descriptions of the same event are contained in two of Crespi's revisions to his diary. The revised descriptions can be read at http://hep.ucsb.edu/people/hnn/crespi.html.
Below is an excerpt of the description from Crespi's first revision. Following it is an excerpt from a later revision.
"We went the whole way over dark friable very level soil, very much clad with very
fine grazing and very large clumps of very tall broad grasses, burnt off in some spots
and not in others; the unburnt [grasses] were so tall that they topped us on
horseback by about a yard. All about are very large tablelands with very large tall
live oaks- I have never seen larger- and a great many sycamores as well. We have
come upon such vast quantities of rose bushes that in many spots the levels were full
of them here. We went two good leagues across this soil, which is so good it cannot be
bettered. On going the two leagues we came to this spot, so fine and pleasant a one
that it is the best of all that we have come across."
Here is the second revision: "...over the same level, all of it very dark friable soil and very
grown over with very tall broad grasses. It had been burnt off in some spots and not
so in others; the unburnt [grasses] were so tall that they topped us on horseback by
about a yard. We then started over talbelands, equally grass-grown and very much
grown over with a great many large live oaks. On the plains here are so many rose
bushes that in some spots nothing was to be seen but grass and roses. On going two
hours over level land, we came to the watering place, a populous town where there is
a large inlet that, viewed from afar, seems a lake, and has good fresh water; here we
made camp, and it was a two leagues' march."
It seems that in the first revision, Crespi writes fast and passionately. In the second revision he seems to write fast because he is in a hurry, or wants to be read quickly and easily.
The second revision lacks the poetry or sense of urgency of the first. The later revision reminds me that the Illiad is not as powerful when told in prose.
If you go to the site I entered above, do not expect to find Crespi's complete diary. One of the frustrating things about the web is that many works are only partially available.
The Walker
A diary entry I enjoyed was written by Fray Juan Crespi while he travelled with Gaspar de Portola in 1769. Two descriptions of the same event are contained in two of Crespi's revisions to his diary. The revised descriptions can be read at http://hep.ucsb.edu/people/hnn/crespi.html.
Below is an excerpt of the description from Crespi's first revision. Following it is an excerpt from a later revision.
"We went the whole way over dark friable very level soil, very much clad with very
fine grazing and very large clumps of very tall broad grasses, burnt off in some spots
and not in others; the unburnt [grasses] were so tall that they topped us on
horseback by about a yard. All about are very large tablelands with very large tall
live oaks- I have never seen larger- and a great many sycamores as well. We have
come upon such vast quantities of rose bushes that in many spots the levels were full
of them here. We went two good leagues across this soil, which is so good it cannot be
bettered. On going the two leagues we came to this spot, so fine and pleasant a one
that it is the best of all that we have come across."
Here is the second revision: "...over the same level, all of it very dark friable soil and very
grown over with very tall broad grasses. It had been burnt off in some spots and not
so in others; the unburnt [grasses] were so tall that they topped us on horseback by
about a yard. We then started over talbelands, equally grass-grown and very much
grown over with a great many large live oaks. On the plains here are so many rose
bushes that in some spots nothing was to be seen but grass and roses. On going two
hours over level land, we came to the watering place, a populous town where there is
a large inlet that, viewed from afar, seems a lake, and has good fresh water; here we
made camp, and it was a two leagues' march."
It seems that in the first revision, Crespi writes fast and passionately. In the second revision he seems to write fast because he is in a hurry, or wants to be read quickly and easily.
The second revision lacks the poetry or sense of urgency of the first. The later revision reminds me that the Illiad is not as powerful when told in prose.
If you go to the site I entered above, do not expect to find Crespi's complete diary. One of the frustrating things about the web is that many works are only partially available.
The Walker
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Hi Everybody: This is step 11 for '27 Things'. Doing this step was the easiest task for me so far. I am not really enthusiastic about 'LibraryThing', so rather than state what I am reading, I put five titles by Mark Twain in a catalog and gave them tags.
The titles in my catalog that I have read are The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In high school I read Puddin'head Wilson and loved it. I did not think of the last book until now, so it isn't in my catalog.
The widget I used was 'animated'. Here is my address: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/thewalker
The Walker
The titles in my catalog that I have read are The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In high school I read Puddin'head Wilson and loved it. I did not think of the last book until now, so it isn't in my catalog.
The widget I used was 'animated'. Here is my address: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/thewalker
The Walker
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Hi Everybody: This took forever for me to figure out. Ann Owens gave me my final instructions.This is a gif image that I loaded to the desktop at a telis computer.
To place your image from the desktop to your blog, start a new blog post. Then click the photo icon next to the spell check icon. When the new page comes up, click browse. Choose your image from the menu. On the next screen, choose what size you want your image to be and what side of the page you want the image to be on. Click upload. Then click done.
Yeah!
The Walker
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Library Blogs
Today I am working on exercise 9- Library Blogs.
First I went to Library Garden http://librarygarden.blogspot.com/. There is a list of other blogs. The thirteen blogs I linked to did not interest me. The 14th did. It is Blog on the Side by Darlene Fichter. I like the photograph of birds.
On the right is a list of posts called Top Posts - PostRank. I linked to '10.0 Show and Tell: 3 Web Design Misconceptions by Luke Wroblewski'. He wrote four pages of explanation, then added four pages of comments.
His blog is very professional.
The Walker
First I went to Library Garden http://librarygarden.blogspot.com/. There is a list of other blogs. The thirteen blogs I linked to did not interest me. The 14th did. It is Blog on the Side by Darlene Fichter. I like the photograph of birds.
On the right is a list of posts called Top Posts - PostRank. I linked to '10.0 Show and Tell: 3 Web Design Misconceptions by Luke Wroblewski'. He wrote four pages of explanation, then added four pages of comments.
His blog is very professional.
The Walker
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