week 21 tagging essentials

As one who works with information, I completely understand how tagging and decriptors help others find essential information. It is one of the primary reasons why I like the new technology that allows us as individuals to format, to shape, to make our lives easier with tagging...anything and everything in our lives. But one is to remember, that if you wish to share the said information...they perhaps there some try to be some adhereace top industry standards.

week 20 flickr

ahhh...my friend flickr...ummm...wait...I don't think flickr is my friend...it's user friendly...its useful...but I see no reason to implement all the details of my life with pictures so the entire world will have all kinds of information ...visual... at least...available to them.

Nice application, but not really useful to me...think I'll pass.

week 19 free tools , technoroti

There sure are a lot of free things out there, aren't there, but are they all worth it. Some have may had awards added to thier title, but are they worth it at a 'free' price'?. Sometimes...you have to remember...you get what you pay for!

Some of the tools that had awards tagged to them seemed useful, and others seemed completely worthless for me in my work...but thats quite alright....it would be impossible to keep up with every new innovation...just as it would be physically impossible to stop and look at every piece on display in the smithsonion...an impossible task.

thing 14 adding to the wiki

wiki wiki...who's got the wiki? and who has the authority to change it? In one sense I like the ability change something, a collaborative effort, and yet somehow it seems all too easy to shift things, perhaps to shed a more gfavorable light onto a subject? Possible ramifications for abuse might be too eays to pass up, but then again...it can always be noticed and corrected then, can't it?

week 11 Images

Images...those elusive bits of film and chemical that fade with time, that get lost in the sotrms and the fires, that we never get around to mounting, to sending out to friends and relatives. Nut now, with electronic format, not only do you have instant satisfaction, you have instant dissemination to anyone that you care to.

But what if it was a lousy picture? Well, with the new photo editing software out there, its simple to take out the red eye, change the intesity of the sun, take out the shadow...with the right kind of software you can recolor that hideous seersucker jacket uncle earl was wearing...or after aunt bertha has been released from rehab and ran off with the chihuaha trainer...you can take her out of the picture completely!

You gotta love this new technology!!

week 10 youtube

I was never much of one to watch tv...but when I did watch, the funniest video shows always made me laugh. I've never owned a video camera, and when I would miss an episode, well, that was it. Unless I reprecorded the show. But with such tools as youytube and yahoo video and myspave video...there is absolutely nothing you can't watch, find or replay at your leisure! Pranks, instructions on how to cook chicken marsala, how to carve a heron, watch documentary's long lost to film archives...it truly is an amazing tool.

week 9 Photos and images

I can only think back and laugh about how easy it is today to manipulate images with the computer. Back in the day, one of my jobs was to provide ummm...alternative forms of ID to individuals...within the armed forces...and it was a laborious process. And you might fool the border guars, or the security forces. Now...today, with a flick of a button, a transfer of a file, you can have a drivers liscense from any state in the country...( I know,...you're not supposed to do that...but it out there!). But aside for the wrogful way to handle things...the right way is so much fun. Why should the beatles be the only one to have a psychadelic poster made of themselves? Why should donald trump be the only guy on Fortune Magazine?

I love the computer and if you're lucky enough to have photoshop...the world is in the palm of your hand!