Thoughts on Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking is feature I can see real benefit from especially when I move from laptop to desktop and once back to school on my netbook. The beauty is that I can always have all my bookmarks on the machine I am working at the moment. This is huge! I have had real difficulty which I attribute to the bouncing between machines using different versions of Google. I choose Diigo as I had tried del.ico.us a year ago and just had let things lapse. Diigo has been converting a large number of accounts and somehow all of my bookmarks were lost. I did e-mail Diigo because my password no longer worked. The folks at Diigo were great and reset the password and I logged in with my Google e-mail account to find no bookmarks and a really weird user id something like pwjcfk so I have emailed Diigo asking that they delete the account so I can start over (there really isn’t anything in it.) My thoughts on social bookmarking are it is very valuable and I want to become dependent upon it but, I am old and wise enough not to beat my head against the wall. Reflection can be a powerful tool and I think modeling the skill is good for students.
Well classmates, my almost empty Diigo account is very easy to log into now but still has little content but, my patience did pay off and with all issues resolved it only took a few minutes to move my Chrome bookmarks to Diigo. I will need to add tags to my links but that too will happen.
Thoughts on Google Reader
I have been using Google Reader for over a year and LOVE IT! I have set it up on my home page but, I don’t always have time to read all my subscriptions. My reading vision is on the downward slide so I think having the full window for the reader is best for me and using digital texts is best because I can make the text larger or with greater contrasts. My subscriptions are mostly educational, cooking, finance, psychology, travel, and now technology and web 2.0 tools. I have not been religious about attending to reading my subscriptions but, when time is available I do enjoy going through them all.
Having an over an hour drive to class and back each week has been a great opportunity to enjoy some iTunes podcasts on my iPod while driving. There is even an iTunes University Podcast from the University of South Florida on Social Media. I also really enjoy listening to Freakonomics Radio Podcast for a different view on everyday topics. This is the link to Freakonomics the movie so named after the book.
