What Are You Optimistic About??

I know alot of people have reservations about the internet and its use, disuse or abuse adn whatnot...
Came across this book What are you optimistic about?: today's leading thinkers on why things are good and getting better Edited by John Brockman...nice reading especially the articel by Martin Rees entitled "Techo-Optimism and the Energy Challenge"
Techno-Optimism, very nice term. Alot of people are worry about Youtube, Myspace...and other social networking sites like them...
it is a great way for us to be connected, but you have to question the extent, the nature and the relevance of such artifical connectiveness or collaboration.
Reading Diane F. Halpern's chapter from abovementioned book "How Technology is Saving the World" and Nathan Myhrvold's "The Power of Educated People to Make Important Innovations"
That pretty much sums up my thoughts: Power, Education, Importance, Innovation.

Wikis

It is nice to be able to join & create or edit something. All of us can now be Ms and Mr-know-it-all! Obviously vandalism is a huge problem.
Wikipedia is great for browsing...
I like LyricWiki alot.
It is nice, according to its site, the site's purpose is to be "a source where anyone can go to get reliable lyrics for any song from any artist without being hammered by invasive ads".
Welcome! http://www.lyricwiki.org/Main_Page
Finally I can put my vast knowlege to good use!

Do You Wiki ?

I love the Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki the best!

more color, more dazzle

On a more personal note, this blog is terribly dull. It needs more dazzle and razzle :)

so much to learn...

Things and terms I came across & piqued my interest:
Digg
Mixx
Facebook
Newsvine

Just reading up on Web 2.0 is scary...
the web gets wider and deeper...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
Thus far, I amassed (but had yet to master)lotsa of information and instructions, all of the write-ups of web-technology came with reassurance of its usefulness and handiness, is it really??
This is just a warm-up period.

del.icio.us

Del.icio.us is easy and handy. It was an harass before to access all my favorites and bookmarks before when I have to switch between various computers.
Del.icio.us to my rescue!!



Reading about Del.iciou.us leads me to Furl.com. Going to see next what that's about...

rope 'em and roll 'em!

Rollyo.
Search me under Useful Info
http://rollyo.com/index.html
This is fun and tedious at the same time.
I'm trying to conquer some part of this information glut and in some ways I'm not doing anything but adding to the mess :)