Thing 13

Reading the information on tagging did not help me to understand the concept any better than I already didn't understand. So I went to do thing 14 and 15 to give me insight. Those two things allowed me to look at what a tag looked like, only then did i get what the possible benefit to tagging was. Tagging can help me, as stated in Thing 14, to categorize a general subject heading such as "anime" or "manga" into groupings. Would I use tagging personally? Probably not. Professionally, more likely. Just because I would be able to get to what i am specifically looking for.

Thing 14

The link to my delicous site is http://delicious.com/heperry. Delicious was made it easy to bookmark things of interest, however for me I do not explore the same sites very often. I usually only do it when i am looking for something specific. So on my delicious site I put those sites i do visit at times. The weather being the most used site. Personally, I would not use it because it is very similar to what i have on my favorites. I can get to that a lot quicker than having to sign in to delicious. Tabbing sites with delicious helps if you have an array of similar categories under specific headings. Professionally, Ican see how delicious could be beneficial because if i wanted to bookmark some sites on anime and then manga, I could tag each of these separately. Overall, delicious was an okay site to use, but i prefer favorites for my personal needs.

Thing 15 Digg

I dig Digg. It is a site i would definitely use both personally and professionally. It will help me to limit my time on the internet. I usually use the internet to look up what is going on in the world, but i only usually see what is on the initial page that pops up. Dig allows me to get a closer look at those sites and see more on some of the subjects I am interested in as well as those others find of interest on a similar subject. For instance, one of the digg sites i explored was on Ed McMan and it also gave a few more things that i could link to without having to go through a lot of stuff related to the subject but wasn't reallly what i was searching for.
I do not like to waste my time. I sometimes become frustrated in some of my searches on the internet because sometimes i do not come across exactly what i am looking for until page 4.
Digg seems to come across the information i want within the first few entries.
Digg also allows me to look at acrchived information on similar subjects. Some of the stuff in Diggs sites are kind of goofy eg. the top 5 Wierd Al songs, but fun to look at and hear.
I think i have come across Diggs and didn't even know it when exploring web sites articles. I usually read those just to see others opinions.

thing 11

I chose the google talk site to do as my web browser. My username is hperry@cellnine.com.
I still need to find some people who are on google in order to send invites to them. I have IMed others who are not on the NT23 however and enjoyed the chats.
It is easier than when you had to send email back and forth and wait up to 10 minutes to recieve a responses from one another. So that tells you how long it has been since even attempting something like this. I think IM has been around for about what 10 years and i never really knew what it did and so i never tried. It reminds me a lot of all the text messaging the kids are doing. i think i have only text one person ever and it has been around a while.
I may at some point use this thing more depending on my needs personally, but now i at least show a patron how to do it if they are ever interested.

thing 9

The organization i became a fan of was The Container Store. The groups i joined were the same as i did for the ning thing- archaeoseek, ghosthunters, native americans network. I have recieved responses from the native american site and the ghosthunters site and have a friend on each. I didn't find family or friends at least not in high school or college everyone was a lot younger who was signed up. My guess a generation who grew up on computers vs one that was on the beginnings of most of it in college so i didn't deal with all these "things" we are learning about currently coupled with the lack of interest on my part.