week9 thing23

Firstly I wanted to thank you for this grogramme and for your kind assistance. You guided me so well through this challenge and thanks to your efforts even I have a clue what all the kids are doing out there in the big wide web. Even if it's only a glimpse.
I learned quite a bit I would say, blogging seems to be my second nature and there are so many more things I know now about, some of which I haven't had the faintest idea that they existed. If someone is mentioning flickr now or youTube, you know, thanks to you guys, I'm the absolute expert. And there must be quite a few accounts out there in my name now. I might even impress my daughter.
I thought it was quite a challenge to do this programme in this time frame, especially since I never ever take some 'work' home. But it seems I made it to the end and I have enjoyed it thoroughly. Thank you again.

week9 thing22

I liked that exercise a lot better than the last one. I managed to open another account and had a look around Netlibrary. It was all very well. I found a few titles I added to my favourites and I managed to find my way round that site. I was especially impressed with the German option of the site. Althoug i couldn't spot any German ebooks. Never mind. That was a very nice exercise and I edged my way closer to the end if I hopefully get another credit here.
Also it has to be said that I would very much prefer real books, the old-fashioned sort made of paper to ebooks. But that wasn't part of exercise. And I'm glad it was only optional to go to amazon, because amzon wouldn't be my most favourite website. I blame them partly for the decline of good old-fashioned book shops all over the place I like so much. But that is an alltogether different topic.

week9 thing21

Podcasts were probably the thing I felt for some reason most uncomfortable with. It wasn't a fun exercise for me. I had a look at Podcast.net, Podcastalley.com and Yahoo Podcast and where ever I went I had problems to find something I could look at without any installation demands. So i hope I managed to get the Yahoo rss feed to my bloglines account. Others than that this exercise left me a bit frustrated. I hope i still get a tick, because otherwise I have to go back there and get even more frustrated and we don't want that, do we?

week9 thing20

1. I've heard so much about youTube and then I was finally and thanks to this programme finally there, I was kinda disappointed. That should be the world famous website everything is talking about and there - nearly everybody has a video, famous or not so famous. The first I've heard about you tube was when this press conference has happened and an italian soccer coach explained a few things in not so good german what everybody said that was very funny. After finally seeing it I have to say it wasn't that funny at all. My guess is, that youTube is full of that sort of stuff.
2. I had a look at the library dominos and the moment they do that downstairs at special collection I'm in. On the other hand wouldn't it be more usefully to read the books and play with real dominos instead? Just a thought. What I thought was much funnier are the pet videos. There is some real cute stuff out there.
3. I managed to place a video on my blog and it has to said youTube made it very easy and straight forward. And of course I joined youTube and this was a very straightforward process as well.
4. And finally. Actually I lack a bit of phantasy and creativity to imagine what youTube can do to our website. Perhaps pet video of the day. But please not Conan the librarian.

Trappatoni Legendäre Pressekonferenz

week 8 thing 19

1. That was a real fun thing. I'm not quite sure it was the right thing to do, but I just couldn't resist. I had to look at the games. So many free games to play. I played one or two games. Really I could easily have spent the whole day there and doing this exercise. It's amazing that there is so much free stuff out there. So games2web was my winner of these sites. Even if I couldn't spot a sudoku game.
2. Is playing around still enough to get a genius?

week8 thing18

I have been to zoho and created an account and had a look around and created two documents and then I managed to publish one of these documents on my very own blog. I thought that was a stroke of genius. I was really impressed by myself, but perhaps it was only because the programme was so straight forward that even I could manage. Never mind. Sorry for that document being written in German. I just got carried away and writing in German is still so much easier.

But I got the impression everything was very slow on zoho. I'm not quite sure whether i could cope this that, and besides that every computer has a software or perhaps only the ones I use. But there are now two more documents on the world wide web and I'm sure it can cope with that.

alte-veste ausbruch

1. 
   mein allerstes Dokument auf zoho. Mal schauen was sich daraus machen laesst. Aber warum soll ich eigentlich hier rumschreiben, wenn ich doch alles auch auf meinem Computer habe. Das Ungefaehre, das Beliebige. Hat denn nichts mehr auf dieser Welt irgendeine Bedeutung, Tiefe. Wechlse ich meine Methoden wie die Unterhosen, wenn ich letzteres noch mache.
2. was macht denn noch Sinn, wenn nichts bleibt? Lebe ich denn nur noch fuer die naechste Bestaetigung und gar  nicht mehr fuer etwas das ich gestalte.
3. Und schon schreibe ich wieder Unsinn. Mein Wutausbrueche reichen nur noch zwei, drei Saetze weit, dann geht mir die Luft wie aus einem Ballon aus
4.  

week7 thing17

I went to that website and hope that I've added my blog to the favourite blog page. Hopefully it had worked alright. I wasn't entirely sure. But you will certainly let me know about that, since you guided me so perfectly well through this learning programme. We'll hopefully manage to go the whole way.
wikis are a funny thing. I'm not entirely sure what to think about them. Since everybody can edit them, what could I believe or what shall I think when I read about editing-wars where people edit and re-edit the same thing over and over again.
And can it be too well organized? Well, if it somestimes looks a bit less perfect and a bit more lively. But I don't know. I suppose in a digital world it has to be well organized. Or you might loose track and it goes walkabouts.

week7 thing16

Wikis are a very intriguing thing. It can be very lively, probably to lively for the taste for many. The freedom of opinion of expression. Where to stop it, where it is destructive and where it is vandalism to raise just a few points. I like the booklovers site if the Princeton Library. Although it looks far too well organized. But that is certainly the way to go to invite our customers to write what they find interesting or not. How they rate books and what they want to read and expect on the shelf. It's so fundamentally important to find ways to speak with your customers and with a wiki there are many ways to invite them and listen to them.

week6 thing15

In the past couples of days I read my way through these articles and I couldn't disagree more. I always thought a library is about books. I mean I do like books a lot. I really do. There is a place for computers in this world and there is a place for books and libraries is surely the place for books. And librarians aren't the computerguys in the internetcafe or computershops. That's what I thought anyway. And I'm ready to fight that battle. I don't mind to loose battles either. But it would be a shame, because I really do like books and would hate the idea to live in a world without them. Reading on the computer is just such a poor subtitute for a real book. I like the idea that my daughter reads books just like in the good old times. In fact she is a far keener reader than I ever was. I thought it would be a nice idea if there are at least for her lifetime books around. But if librarians are ready to move on to other shores and leave the books behind who on earth should fight for a world with books. I mean this whole discussion is my mind absolutely ridiculous. We should think about how we present our books what we purchase how we get readers in the library or the books to the readers interest kids for this amazing world of books. There hundreds of possiblities there and around books. It's not yet a lost cause. There are more books than ever. More people than ever write books and more books than ever are published. There are endless challenges for a library. I think a library which moves away from books or wastes their funds on other than books that is a lost cause and it's a shame.
A library is all about books and computers are altogether a different thing. It would be a shame if librarians mistake computer or web 2.0 or library 2.0 for a book.
Sorry for writing such a long blog. But really it is far shorter than I could have done and imagine if I could have written in it in German it would have been really long. Because I really do like books and oldfashioned as I am I think libraries is about books.

week6 thing14

As much as I liked delicious, technorati is a altogether different beast. Perhaps it I was more into blogs it might be more useful. But I tried and I searched and I got results. I searched for my own blog and here I was. And I searched for a couple of other blogs and they were there as well. So if you have another blog for me to search, I might be able to find it.
But it has to be said, that I somehow found the concept of technorati confusing, without being able to say what confused me so much about this website.
But I do hope I still get a credit for this thing and therefor edge my way closer to the big prize. And I did revisit my old bloglines site and was forever wondering what the difference was between the both, apart that I liked bloglines way better.

technorati

Technorati Profile

week6 thing13

Another new thing. What an absolute unbelievable amount of things to do on this web. I might need another few lives though. Never mind. I like delicious. I think I could stay there for quite a while and surf and surf and surf. it's interesting to see what other people are tagging and adding and looking at. And you can surf from tag to site and see what people watch and have to say about them and surf on from there. It's quite fascinating.
I created my delicious account with my usual suspects and added a thing at the bottom of my blog and hope it works out alright. Just in case it doesn't my account name is -surprise -alteveste.

week 5 thing 12

This thing was a bit of a disappointment for me. I wasn't too impressed with Rollyo. I created an account and a searchthingy. And then I searched for something and what was it what I got? The same endless lists like on yahoo or google. And all full with ads as well. So I couldn't really see any advantage using rollyo.
I tried to create a link to rollyo and it is at the end of my blog and I just hope it's working. This copying of links don't seem to be my strongest point. But I'll get there.

week5 thing11

I managed to go to LibraryThing and I could easily spend the rest of my life there. If it wasn't for my sudoku site that is or the rest of my life. Anyway. It's an interesting site and if I ever feel the urge to catalogue the books I've read I might actually use it. It's also very interesting if you want to get some ideas what to read next or of course what other people think about my favourite books.
I opened an account ralph.schroff and added randomly five books and don't ask me why I added Emil und die Detektive. I've read it when I was thirtyfive years younger and it just crossed my mind. Funny thing such a mind. But a great children's book.
And now here is my usual game with the link. One day I'll discover the secret of that, I promise.

Title
Author
Date
Tags
Rating
Shared
Social Info
Change Cover
DAS GLASPERLENSPIEL
Hermann Hesse
1943


1426/12
Social Info
Change Cover
Emil Und Die Detektive
Erich; Stroebe Kastner Lilian L.; Hofrichter Ruth
1945


Social Info
Go to Amazon
Change Cover
Faceless Killers
Henning Mankell
2003


431/9
Social Info
Go to Amazon
Change Cover
Kennedy's Brain
Henning Mankell
2007


45/2
Social Info
Go to Amazon
Change Cover
Schuld und Sühne. Roman.
1999


or perhaps this is the right link and above are only the books: I am really trying.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php

week 5 thing 10

I started to play around with online generator and managed to get some sudoku puzzles. I like that and play around with that for the rest of my life, if I manage to find someone to pay me for that. I do like these puzzles quite a lot. Now I try to get with online generator here. Hopefully


6 2
9 4 7
2 3 1
2 7 9 1 3
1 2 7 8
5 8 4 7 2
7 6 2
1 3 6
5 9
Puzzle 1 (Very hard, difficulty rating 0.78)
Generated by http://www.opensky.ca/~jdhildeb/software/sudokugen/ on Sun Oct 14 23:59:08 2007 GMT. Enjoy!
5 7 6 3
7 1 5
9 4 5 2
3 7
3 5 2 8
1 4
2 7 9 8
5 4 3
6 9 5 3
Puzzle 2 (Very hard, difficulty rating 0.87)
Generated by http://www.opensky.ca/~jdhildeb/software/sudokugen/ on Sun Oct 14 23:59:08 2007 GMT. Enjoy!
4 6 3 8 2
2 3
9 6
8 1 4
3 9 6 2 1 5
6 8 3
1 3
5 8
4 7 5 2 3
Puzzle 3 (Very hard, difficulty rating 0.76)
Generated by http://www.opensky.ca/~jdhildeb/software/sudokugen/ on Sun Oct 14 23:59:08 2007 GMT. Enjoy!
6 3 5 8 2
4 2
9 2 6
9 2 6
2 7 3 9
1 3 8
8 2 3
1 2
4 9 5 7 8
Puzzle 4 (Very hard, difficulty rating 0.78)
Generated by http://www.opensky.ca/~jdhildeb/software/sudokugen/ on Sun Oct 14 23:59:08 2007 GMT. Enjoy!



What on earth have I got here. It obviously didn't work out alright. I try again


http://www.opensky.ca/~jdhildeb/blog?t=rss20

Now I don't know what else I can do to get this puzzle on this post. I managed to print it out alright. Is this already enough for a credit?? please.

week 4 thing 9

I try to paste some links of th my feeds here on this post and hope it'll work. They are mainly links to some German magazines and some links to some of the blogs. But there are also the library sites you have mentioned:
http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs_display?sub=58367078&site=5763522
http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs_display?sub=58367015&site=13540770
http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs_display?sub=58180101&site=5599880
http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs_display?sub=58421335&site=11814032
http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs_display?sub=58366998&site=13540752
http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs_display?sub=58180121&site=9188169
http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs_display?sub=58180165&site=532013

In case the links above dont' work I've copied a list of my feeds here:
12 feeds
ACL Learning 2.0 (0) (0)
alte-veste (1) (0)
atramper (0) (0)
Blog-G (3) (0)
Bloglines News (0) (0) [!]
FR - Sport (0) (0)
Joblogs (0) (0)
kicker.de News aktuell (0) (0)
Mumbaichic - Namaste (0) (0)
Reader's Club Latest (2) (0)
SPIEGEL ONLINE (0) (0)
Unshelved (5) (0)

I hope that is enough to get a credit for things 9

week 4 things 8+9

That was a real fun week for the information junkie in me. I do like RSS feed and set up happily a Bloglines newsreader account. And then I went for my shopping tour on the internet and visited every web page I always wanted to read and added it to my account. And now I click on my account and what shall I say there are always new things to read. Phantastic. Marvellous. I just had to stop myself because there are still countless other sites out there, but even with newsreader I need a bit of time to read all that stuff. But it was fun.

And by the way I read some of the other blogs and was well impressed. What fantastic stuff there is. It makes my blog look a bit boring I have to admit. So I added some of the blogs to my newsreader account as well to keep myself entertained.

With that newsreader account I wait happily the next four years until the next world cup.

week 3 or things 5-7

I had a good look at flickr including the flickr tour. Unfortunately I don't have any digital photos myself, so I couldn't put any on the site. But on the other hand - old-fashioned guy that I am - I would not have liked that idea too much anyway. It's one thing sharing photos with some friends and another sharing with a web-wide-community. I could have looked at photos for the rest of my life, but the thought of that was rather frightening.
But I was thinking what a huge technology must be behind such a side to manage this amount of photos and things. It must be enormous. And I understand it would be up to me whom I would allow to view my photos - if these privacy statements can be trusted that is.
I also had a look at this flickr mashups and all the amazing things you could do if you wanted to. I understand there endless possibilities to play around with your photos and maps and stuff. Interesting, but again no really tempting.
All together I found flickr more interesting than the other sites from the week before. But the task I like most is writing this blog here. So at least I can say I learned something.

week2 or thing4

I went to Bebo, Myspace and Facebook and I just didn't know what to do there. But I signed myself up and had a look around. Or sort of look around. I was just hopeless. If that is the future, oh well, the future might leave me at the presence. Anyway I've got the strong feeling of wasting my time. But perhaps I'm just getting old and old fashioned. Both is not necessarily bad. But I tried. I couldn't find anything and I certainly didn't want to be anybodies friend there, sorry, but that was just not my world.
But thankfully to this programme I at least had a look at these sites. Otherwise I never ever would have bothered to look them up. On the downside I can't understand people chatting on a computer. But that leaves us again old-fashioned.
But I'm still curious enough to follow the course and hope I can cope with the challenges.

thinking

After thinking long and hard. Here I'm again and not a bit wiser. Or is this not about wisdom in the end. Still no clue. But it seems I can revisit my very own blog and post more stuff. That at least is something and considerable more than I was able to do last week. That at least proves that you still can acquire more skills, even at my age. That should give me confidence for the rest of my being or posting for that matter.
One day I might be even tempted to change the settings here or template. But, firstly I don't know what that might trigger - selfdestruction of the blog? computerfailure? not being able to revisit it? So I thought that is enough for the day. One step at a time. Alterweisheit (wisdom of the aging population)

what am I doing here?

I hardly have a clue how I got here and what I'm doing here and to what it might lead in the end. It all seems to be just very weird.
Perhaps I should blog on in Deutsch. Dann wuerde das Ganze wenigstens ein Gesicht haben, das ich verstuende, es allerdings noch verwirrender sein.
Anyway I post that thing here now and I don't have an idea what this means.