NGould's blog

I was running a bit behind this week but finally found a spare half and hour to go through the wikis activites. I was first introduced to wikis quite recently, in this job and have had various training sessions on it so was quite confident that this was just some revision in the area. Unfortunately as Karen pointed out i think a lot of our group are maybe on holiday or have not had the time to do the activities yet so there is not much of a discussion going on yet. Having seen it applied in a work environment i can already see the scope for application and how user friendly it is, and i think even without training it is quite easy to work out.

It was nice this week to see how some of the technologies we had touched upon already started to seem more relevant with this weeks activites. I had utilised pretty much all the suggested sites at some point, having had an ipod for years, visited you tube and sought out the free music streaming websites. However it was nice to spend an hour looking around the sites more thoroughly and seeing what else they have to offer.

I listened to a few podcasts, but i have to say this technology has never really interested me and i found it hard to find anything that i wanted to listen to via a search engine, although i will continue to look just in case!!

So the choice this week was between Facebook and Twitter… as a regular  Facebook user i thought i’d give the Twittering a go!! I was utterly convinced that this new phenomena would not grab my attention at all, i mean how much can you say in 140 characters!! The next time i looked at the clock 45 minutes had passed and i had read with Big Brother type fascination about the mundane activities of at least 20 peoples lives and become a follower of 20 more.  Whilst I wasn’t brave enough to throw caution to the wind and twitter myself , (still not quite believing that anyone would really care), i can see the addicitve quality. I have spent years training myself to not become addicted to BB type programmes and feel that i should probably stay away from this one for the same reason..