Wiki needs a little PR

Catching up on assignments here.....

I wasn't sure if I was wiki-ing correctly because when I clicked on the PR dept page, nothing came up. Nevertheless, I persevered. (That MP3 player is like a little carrot dangling in front of my slee-deprived eyes. Am I in college again???) I added to the PR page, and wa-la! It appeared. Went back to the home page, clicked on PR dept in both places (left and right) and it shows up in both. Cool! Simple, quick.

How could KRL use this? It's the layman's website. Get it up quick, anyone can do it. Quality control could be an issue, and message control could be of real concern to PR dept. though. Hmmm.........

Lost in space

Just spent over an hour creating a totally unnecessary but pretty fun digital meez. For a non-surfer, practical-oriented computer user (just want to use it to get my work done and email then go do other things, thanks) I got really serious about creating just the right meez for the mood!

But I digress.

LibraryThing is cool! I've always had little success selecting good books off the shelves without a recommendation. Wine, like books, has always been selected by the label (cover). Most often, book covers are deceiving --- really great cover art does not a good read make. But I HAVE gotten some great reads off the book group shelves at the library! Makes sense, and they're selected by the fine folks who find great books and bring them to other people's attention for a living. LibraryThing just expands that. See what people are reading, talking about, love, would read again, etc Perfect!

Now if someone can just help me find a really good glass of wine...

Online videos

YouTube: fun! But really hit & miss unless you are looking for something specific. The viewer ratings are really valuable. Could spend a lot of time here. Or, could spend a lot of time outside, doing something fun of my own! There's definitely a cultural shift that's gone on, and to ignore YouTube is to ignore that aspect of pop culture. Sort of like shrugging off TV. You can, and you can be perfectly happy(ier) doing so, but you'll also miss out on a lot of the common humor and references of the time. That can have greater implications that it would initially appear. As what felt like one of only about three teenagers in the universe that didn't have access to MTV, I think I'll make up for a little of that lost cultural reference on YouTube.

Quickie on wiki

Just toured the wiki for Stevens County and for KRL. So glad to have had an intro to the land of wikis -- have heard about them for a long time but didn't really have a sense of what they are. I'm not a web cruiser -- more a user, on & off as needed, not for entertainment, so have tended to stick with the type of websites I know & trust. This KRL2pt0 project is opening up whole new expanses of info & experiences. Now just need to weed through & determine what will be the most useful & interesting new tools to use, and train myself into new habits. Easier said than done. I'm grateful for the experience, though. This is training like I've had nowhere else, and something I would've never done on my own (wouldn't have know where to start, or even what to start.) So this is all good.

As for the wikis -- the Stevens County one reminded me a lot of an online tourism project I've been working on for another county, except without the gorgeous photos. Interesting. As a new user I hadn't a clue what the difference between "category" and "portal" was -- they aren't familiar terms for webpages (are they akin to "services" and "links"?). If so, it seems that would deter new wiki users (like me) from clicking further.

As for the KRL wiki -- the PR dept page should include press release updates. It would also be nice to have committee meetings & committee work handled this way (just like the Common Sense demo of the camping trip.) Sure would save a lot of email.

Flickr flutter

It's interesting -- I've used Flickr professionally, uploading photos to a group account for a project, but haven't explored it as a private party viewer until today. I'm still not a fan. Ticked off a little by the idea that artists must give our art away in order to be in the current millenium. Perhaps over-Internetted for tonight. Over saturated. (Under-vacationed???! haha) (As I write, my partner is in the balmy islands of Hawaii at a conference, and here it rains and blows and I am working....grumble grumble).

Enough for tonight. Why post if it's not a good? At least it's authentic.

Feed me -- does that mean I'm Gen X? Gen Y?

Just spent waaaaaaayyyyy too long trying to catch up on the krl2pt0 assigments. Got SO VERY sidetracked in completing the RSS task....becuase it led me to so many interesting things! I'm not a net surfer, but to have info delivered to me once it was narrowed down a bit to my interests...very cool! I didn't really jump on the tagging wagon....I can see the benefits, maybe, but the bug didn't bite me. The RSS stuff is different though. I like it!