The 23 labours of Antiblogger

I don't have much to say, I feel like I said everything I wanted to say during this exercise and any repetition would be pointless and would be a waste of space on the internet. I can't say I've enjoyed this exercise as it has taken up a lot of time and felt like another assignment. In the process of this exercise I created so many new logins and passwords that I couldn't remember the important passwords that I need. I'm just glad it is all over and I can continue my more mundane but more real existance in the real world. My conclusion:

Sartre wrote «L'enfer, c'est les autres.» - Hell is other people.
I knew what the words meant but I never fully understood them until now.

«L'enfer, c'est les autres.»

Existence 2.0 is suffering.

ebooks

This is a great idea but after looking at Project Gutenberg I was a little disappointed. Most of the available texts were either technical ones or were incredibly old. So I didn't find anything of interest there, not even a Satre book. The kindle idea sounds great but too expensive and would they ever sell anything like that in NZ? Probably not. Nuff said.

Podcasts

Another irrelevant and not very clever neologism. I have looked at the two sites and I struggled to find anything of interest. It was also difficult to navigate around. I subscribed to the learn Spanish podcast as it was the most interesting one I could find. I have no intention of learning Spanish. ¿Que?

Web 2.0 Awards list

Who decides which is the best? Shouldn't the page be a wiki so the plebs can determine which site is the best? The site itself just seems like another pointless waste of space to find more sites that are pointless wastes of space.

I looked at google maps although this was out of general interest. The new feature google street view has some merit in that you can see panoramic images at a street level. The streets look just like any other street and the traffic jams look just like other traffic jams and overseas tourist attractions have tourists flocking around them so it all seems out of place. I did take a little while to get used to navigating in the new view and loading was a little slow but overall I would give it 6 arbitrary units of performance measurement out of 10 arbitrary units of performance measurement.

Week 8 «Zoho Writer»

I prefer the layout of this to Word. I can more easily find «les guillemets» which is always important in an emergency.

I would like to know where this information is stored and who «owns» the information. People should have some concerns about this. And this means that you couldn't access any documents without an internet connection and we all know how unreliable those can be at times.

I can see the potential for people to work collaboratively using this tool but as they say «Too many cooks spoil the broth».

Also the publish option didn't work so I had to copy and paste.

Social networking

Once you've seen one social networking site, you've seen them all. It's nice people have found another way to communicate with each other. I have looked at various sites. These days 'social' seems to be the prefix of choice, put in front of all sorts of words just like e-everything ten years ago. The focus on all things social is akin to bread and circuses. These sites give people the illusion of control over the internet and their own lives and distract people from important politcal issues happening in the real world.

Week 6 (Pointless 2.0)

I didn't think it was possible but these services are more pointless than the last. Personally I wouldn't use deli.cio.us and no I don't think that's a clever name. Question: Why would anyone care about how other people 'tag' things?
Technorati is another service providing unnecessary solutions. Question: Why would anybody want to search for blogs?
Some of the perspectives on library 2.0 were engaging and meaningful, hopefully new technologies won't be thrust into people's faces before they are ready as I feel that would breed resentment.