Week 5 - Social Bookmarking and Tagging

I like the idea of managing my bookmarks online as aposed to having them stored on a particualar pc...so I think I'll keep using this tool. The experience was good in that I learnt something new...but I don't know if I'd place it in the category of liberating or empowering...it was definately not horrifying...
authority controls...I'm not sure what that means...I should look it up...I'm assuming the ability to place whatever tags one feels like on an item, and if that's the case...then no...the lack of authority controls don't bother me...there will always be a few people with enough time for malicious behaviour...but basically, the majority of us will use these tools in an effort to save time and create efficiencies
I'll have to think about the last question regarding the use of social bookmarking in libraries...I'll post my response later on...

Week 6 - LibraryThing

I'm not to sure if I get librarything...but since I've waited to the last minute to do this, there's no time to really look into it. I was able to add 3 books and edit my profile a bit. To view my librarything book selection, click here

one more rula 2.0 assignment to go!

Week 8 - Working with Google Applications

I've been using google docs and maps for years...and I think both features are fantastic...it's also one of my reasons for picking an mp3 player over a storage device...
who needs a physical storage device that can so easily be forgotten / lost / stolen ... when there is so much reliable storage space online?
2 more rula assignments to go...a very very good program...but I'll be happy when it's over!!!

Week 10 - Browser Tools

For Wk 10-Browser tools, I decided to install the Google toolbar. As it turns out the permissions on my work PC restricts me from installing any applications or tools. Fortunately for me...the same restrictions don't apply on my personal PC...and so it's been installed for some time now.

Week 9 - Social Networks

I've had a facebook account for quiet a while now...but I added a few more friends...most importantly Graham...so I could get my check mark ;)
A while back I took the CE course: Technology, power and change...where the prof stated that facebook is financed in part by the CIA and that everything that's posted is kept indefinately...dispite a users attempts to delete it...
so here's my conspiracy theory...it's a tool (social networking tool) to know what we're thinking...and then who knows how and when this information will be used...
this course also spoke about the advances in technological surveillance...it's maybe a little farfetched to connect the 2...but to date I don't feel comfortable volunteering my thoughts...
having stated that...I visit regularly to see what others are up to...as so many have stated...it's a great way of keeping in touch with friends!

Trip to Jamaica

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Originally uploaded by m_arlain

wk 4-still photosharing w. flickr; this dog is here because...all the other dogs we came across seemed happy to see us...this one looked especially annoyed...and he didn't even bother growling or barking...his expression seemed to say it all!

ayanle and i in jamaica

Jam06
Originally uploaded by m_arlain

Week 4 down...a million less 1 to go...
Now to week 5!!!

Week 12 - Videos/YouTube

I'm done the wk 12 assignment. I like youtube...like most good sites, it's a great time waster!!!

The following is my selection: India Arie's version of Heart of the Matter...maybe not interesting... but I love this song...both her and Henley's version of it.

YouTube is already incorporated into the library's webspace under Audio Visual Resources & Services, Internet resources.

catching up pt. 2 (Wk 11 - Podcasts and Audio Files)

downloaded iTunes
subscribed to podcasts
listened to: LibriVox - The sayings of Confucious by Confucious ... and then decided to check out the Harvard podcasts...and thought the 'Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor' by Sudhir Venkatesh sounded interesting...and so I switched over...

so little time...so much out there to listen to!!!

catching up

so today...mar. 27. I added a recipe to the rula 2.0 wiki...3 assignments down, too many more to go...

procrastination 101

things to do instead of preparing for final exam

• try waking up ayanle
• make coffee
• water plants
• crush hardened brown sugar and place in container...
• take plant out of water
• look for new home with other plants
• decide there's no more space in existing pots
• decide to create a new pot
• look for leftover dirt
• give up on finding dirt...too cold outside...place plant back in water
• decide to buy new dirt
• call my mom about my sister
• call my brother for an update on Ski...'a dog I always thought was a bad idea'...but has been able to slip past by better judgment and establish herself firmly in my heart
• try waking ayanle up
• read up on rihanna and cris brown
• and on celebs who struggle with their weight
• check email
• sign up for documentary website
• get all the study materials out of knapsack
• clean up study space
• decide to warm up my left over coffee
• think about other things i procrastinate on...a long list including rula 2.0
• ah decide to check my blog

might as well post something...

"Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate...but that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light , not our darkness, that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of god.

Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make and manifest the glory of god that is within us.

It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

-Marianne Williamson“Our Greatest Fear” from her book “A Return To Love”