One Last Thing

I've certainly enjoyed being part of the 23 Things programme as a presenter! It was great fun to read the blogs, view the photos, and follow the tweets, thanks everyone for your enthusiastic participation.

I'll leave you with a few memorable quotes from 23 Things:


"I have never thrown a sheep at at anyone"

-- Alison Prince on 23 Things Oxford A Prince's Progress


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-- tweet from Konnie Bunny (@kboxf23)


"Thanks to a mouse malfunction I almost located the photo in Norway."

Alison Felstead on Leda Neatfossil's 23 Things

More fun with Google Reader

I decided to see what other feeds Google Reader might suggest for me based on my current reading habits. Once I got over the fact that one of them was "Cute Overload", I enjoyed checking out my new subscriptions, including Gizmodo. It is very geeky.

I then went to check out my Shared Items page, which I had never looked at before. I set it to use the Ninja theme, and made it visible to everyone. There was an easy click-button way to add a Shared Items gadget to my blog, so I did.

Google Reader and subscribing to the 23 Things Blog

I love Google Reader and use it every day. Sometimes I wish it had a more visually exciting interface, but in general, it brings me the RSS feeds I follow and allows me to organize them into folders, so I am a happy user. I never knew about the N and P shortcuts to use while reading a feed, and this will be extremely useful!

Above is a screen grab of my tag cloud from my Google Reader Trends, as you can see, the word "fun" is quite substantial, probably thanks to Boing Boing and Icanhascheezeburger. I am pleasantly surprised to see that "food" is rather small.

Making the rounds

I'm making my way around all the 23 Things participants blogs and leaving comments - There are so many that I'm only about halfway through the list, which is fantastic. It is interesting to see the different approaches that people are taking, some using the blog as a resource for a group endeavour, others taking the opportunity to share their interests with us (Devoured by Vegans I'm looking at you :-) I would write more here but I'd better get back to my commenting...

One Thing leads to another...

It's been great fun to visit the numerous 23 Things blogs now populating the sidebar. Who knew it would be so interesting to sneak a peek at people's iGoogle pages - someone found Frogger! I need to check out the game gadgets again, clearly. Next I 'm going to do some commenting, I find with my other blog that it's really fun when you get a conversation going in comments. Once I was wondering what a tree in our back garden was, and posted a photo of it to my blog asking if anyone knew - soon I had an answer: Australian Wattle, FWIW.

In terms of what I hope to get out of the 23 Things programme, I'm interested in getting new ideas for how to use Web 2.0 tools. I've experimented with a bunch of them, but would like to become a more regular blogger, for instance. I use flickr, but want to upload more photos and organize them in a coherent way. I think that seeing what other people do will provide some inspiration. I'm also hoping to become more familiar with other parts of OULS, which is already happening as I read the participant blogs. I'm leading some of the upcoming Things, and am looking forward to making discoveries about the topics as I prepare. I am quite amazed at the capabilities of some of the free image editing tools, for instance.

Onward!

First day of 23 Things!

I get a little bit of a headstart as I have had a Google ID for some time. I've customized my google page and it is where I always start when I open my browser. I am going to experiment with some different gadgets though. I also love the iGoogle themes that change the top of the page throughout the day, right now I am using the fox with a Japanese teahouse, the night image is one of my favorites.

Have now added a currency converter, headlines from Scientific American, a BBC Radio gadget, and a gadget that lets you search amazon.co.uk from your iGoogle page.

"23 Things" Begins Soon

Greetings - this is the blog that will be dedicated to the upcoming 23 Things Web 2.0 Program at Oxford University Library Services - I am happy to be involved, and will be responsible for Weeks 4, 10 and 11, covering online image sharing and editing, Office 2.0 and Widgets.