Week 3
The tools we explored during week three were diverse and impressive. There seems to be an explosion of web applications designed to increase my online efficiency. On one hand it is about time as I have been puttsing around on the internet for many years getting lost and cluttering up my desktop with shortcuts and such. On the other hand it feels like just yesterday I was at my high school getting a pass out of study hall so that I could go down to the Calculator lab and safely land the Lunar Lander on the moon using the cool state of the art calculator. So things have definitely improved no more key punch cards and green and white sheets of paper with syntax errors everywhere. Now I magically travel almost anywhere and gather more information than I can handle. In fact that has been the problem. Book marks galore, files of interesting links and daily emails from friends and colleagues with more links to more interesting sites.
So over the last year I have been introduced to Google docs so I can collaborate long distance and store information in the clouds, there is Delicious which allows me to book mark and manage my list of websites online. Now there seems to be an ever increasing number of wonderful, fascinating web applications that will assist me in my online world. I just wish someone would produce a wonderfully fascinating application to manage my ever increasing number of wonderful fascinating applications.
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I feel ya... I love the new toys we are discovering, but I am sincerely afraid I will lose track of them if they are not in my face on my desktop. (For instance, I completely forgot about Google411 until I read Erika's blog. I am in Lansing, MI and I really am not familiar with the area. Some chinese delivery sounds good right about now...) Yet, I really don't like a messy desktop nor the decrease in the efficency of my machine. What to do..what to do...
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