Facebook

I have had a Facebook account for many years. Having gone to school in the states I find it a great way to keep in touch with friends who are now scattered all over the world. For you, is Facebook useful or a time-waster? Facebook is a little bit of both for me; it is a wonderful procrastination tool when there is something important that I should be completing on my computer but it is also useful in terms of helping me keep in touch. If it weren't for Facebook I probably would have lost touch with a lot of people!

Wikipedia

After reading a number of articles on topics of interest and finding no need to edit them I decided to try looking for obscure topics. Were you able to find a topic obscure enough that Wikipedia doesn’t cover it? I actually did find a number of topics which weren't in Wikipedia; specific schools in Calgary and musicians who are well-known in Calgary. I decided against publishin an article on them as I am definitely not an expert on the subjects.

Social Bookmarking

Interesting that Social Bookmarking is our assignment for this week as I am just preparing to teach a class about Web 2.0 and spent some time on our best websites before reading our assignment for this week! What are the advantages of storing, sharing, and tagging web content this way? What are the disadvantages? The major advantage of storing, sharing and taggin web content this way is that these bookmarks are available to you on any computer. You don't need to be at home to access your favourite sites. Right at the moment I cannot think of any major disadvantages although many people might have concerns about privacy.

Starting Out

I'm quite intrigued by the number of subjects which people find to blog about! Do all of these blogs really have readers?