Second Life, Skype, and Goodbye

The resources links were very useful for Second Life; I now understand why a university, for instance, would want to be part of this. I didn't realise also it was at such a big scale. But I still need to get my head around this better, and I am not convinced about joining.

Skype on the other hand is in - and it has saved me some money; I've been using it for video calls, and had recently a couple of people at the other end. They were commenting how they can hear me in the whole room as if I was next door.

And so much for that.

Thank you Kerri for setting this up; the resources have been interesting and useful. And thank you to everyone who's been reading this. Now that I can shut the curtains on this, I'll have another stroll through other people's blogs; it's been fun getting to know some of your other 'selves'.

Facebook

I use facebook (on and off). Its greatest benefit for me is in being another way of keeping in touch with people overseas, and being less intrusive. I have joined also some groups, causes...within limits, and it's, again, another way of keeping posted on things of interest. Stating the obvious here.

But I haven't heard of Ning, for example. Just had a quick look.

MySpace

I don’t use my account that much; in fact, I hardly look at MySpace. I found out also their copyright filter is going strong. A video I was trying to upload got blocked. And, NO, whatever you’re thinking, it’s not it. It was because of Bob Marley, the background music I chose for the video. Found YouTube a bit more flexible in this respect.

RSS-ing

Created a blogline account, and added 24 feeds. Now I just have to remember going to that place to check what I subscribed to. I find there are so many ways you can get what you want - speaking strictly about things online (yet to figure out otherwise) - that it can get confusing. What works the best for me - with my studies for instance - is to subscribe to email updates to sites I know otherwise I would have to scroll through....

Charts of all kinds

I fiddled around with bubble.us and it was fun and had way too many branches. Will use it again with a concrete plan for sure.

Newsletter

an example

Wiki bits

I can see why the Future Melbourne Wiki got an award - clean set up and great colour themes....