Are you literate? Maybe not if we're talking about the new literacy emerging. I've been blogging with some people today about the idea that wikis, blogs, and other computer-mediated forms of communication allow for a new type of literacy, something much more collaborated that Jeff Vice calls "open text" where authorships blurs away and the written piece is owned by the community. This is quite a departure from the old model of writing something, printing it, and it's mine to turn in.
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Anyway, this is something I'm going to have to think about some more, but Web-logged has a good post on this topic.
Friday, July 09, 2004
Furl it! The next new verb
I've read a lot lately about Furl.net. It's a free downloadable bookmark that creates a button in your browser that when pushed saves and categorizes any website you are on. Here are the benefits that I see:
- Save your useful websites on an OUTSIDE server that can be accessed from any computer and will be there even if your hard drive crashed
- You can rate, sort, filter and organize your saved websites for easy recal later
- You can search through your saved websites to find the one you're looking for. Your own personal google through stuff you already know to be valuable!
- Furl links to the URL but also saves the website in case the URL goes dead in a few months
- You can receive rss feeds of your friends' new furled links or you can email them yours.
A blog I read called Furl the best thing since Google. He may be right. The ability to store and categorize my Net learning so it can be more easily retrieved will be phenomenally useful for me. I will never bookmark again. I will now be a furler!
I do think the way they promote the "furl it" button is funny. After "google" became a verb, I hope not every new tool and company will try to create their own verbs to add to our sometimes ridiculous "e-language."
- Save your useful websites on an OUTSIDE server that can be accessed from any computer and will be there even if your hard drive crashed
- You can rate, sort, filter and organize your saved websites for easy recal later
- You can search through your saved websites to find the one you're looking for. Your own personal google through stuff you already know to be valuable!
- Furl links to the URL but also saves the website in case the URL goes dead in a few months
- You can receive rss feeds of your friends' new furled links or you can email them yours.
A blog I read called Furl the best thing since Google. He may be right. The ability to store and categorize my Net learning so it can be more easily retrieved will be phenomenally useful for me. I will never bookmark again. I will now be a furler!
I do think the way they promote the "furl it" button is funny. After "google" became a verb, I hope not every new tool and company will try to create their own verbs to add to our sometimes ridiculous "e-language."
Thursday, July 08, 2004
Bloglines gets really cool
Well, the buzz is all over the blogosphere about Bloglines. Not only is it a great aggregator because it's free, but it has been easier to use for me these last few months than other aggregators I tried. Now it's a year old, and Bloglines is really partying with some new features. So if you like to experiment with new technology, check out Bloglines and try some of their new toys! I'm experimenting with publishing my list of feeds as my own personal blogroll on this blog, and so far it hasn't been working.
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