You Tube

I explored YouTube with my children way before it was one of the 23 Things to do. I have to admit, and I am not proud of this~ but I found it immensely entertaining. I love when they showed me Pearl(which was actually on the webiste "Funny Or Die"); A David Blane knock-off and I also found myself ashamed of our reaction to the "Grape Lady Falls". (Which I asked my children to research how that poor woman is doing since her unfortunate fall!....She's supposed to be fine by the way, only a few broken ribs and punctured lung!)

I read once that YouTube has really given the network TV a run for their money and changed the way we think about and demand our TV viewing. YouTube has allowed us to see what we want when we want it. Quite the contrary to what we were used to in the past. I think that this is a good thing.

As for the subject matter on YouTube: It may be funny or sad but I think it is true to life in 2007. It is filled with what we call living our lives. It is entertainment about ourselves, produced by us for the most part and the way we live now a days.

Web 2.0 Awards List

I have been looking at some of the Web 2.0 Awards Lists and found two interesting ones to comment on. (There were many choices to explore here!).

Craigslist:http://www.craigslist.org/about/factsheet.html I had heard of it before and had the opportunity to explore it. It is an urban community that had free classified ads and forums displayed on a very austere homepage. However when searching through the nuts and bolts, I discovered that although it has a .org domain, it is a for profit website. It gets more than 8 billion page views per month. It was founded in 1995 by Craig Newmark for San Francisco area. It was fun to look around but I prefer to keep e-Bay's organization as my weird purchasing place of choice.

The other site is One Sentence. True stories told in one sentence. (http://www.onesentence.org/) The site is about telling your story, briefly. Any story will do: "Insignificant stories, everyday stories, or turning - point - in -your-life stories, boiled down to their bare essentials." I really enjoyed reading these one sentance stories and thought it would be sometihgn I'd like to try someday.

Week 7: Cool

As we go through these weeks doing our "23 Things", it seems to me that we are allowing technology to sneak into our lives so innocently. All the "Things" I've discovered over the past weeks are very interesting and helpful information. But I didn't realize that it was becoming part of my life until I was at Rita's Italian Ice yesterday and participated in a conversation that not only did I know what was being said, I also knew what I was talking about. AND some "other" really super smart computer people nearby...haven't blogged yet! So that was cool.

Rita's' Italian Ice is also cool and by the way, they are supporting Alex's Lemonade Stand. A fundraiser to fight childhood cancer . I really recommend going to have some Ice and support this very worthwhile cause.

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Well I figured out how to create and post a Meez avatar! It really does look just like me! I also went to The Generator Blog place and played around with a lot of generators but didn't want to include them on my blog. It seems to me that although fun, they are somewhat of a waste of time and the subject matter is questionable! However, I plan on sending out singing e-mails soon as that was very cute. I also tried to put a link on this blog to Library Thing but was very unsuccessful. Library Thing is fun anyway.