Thing #22

Thing 22. I'm going to do the More Things thing that just started. That's how I plan to keep up on my Web 2.0 savvy. I think I'm going to keep doing Mystery Beer Night Podcast too. Those are fun.



A way I'd recommend to keep up your savvy is to help other people learn stuff. I've been helping a friend, John, learn 23 Things. It's a lot more fun to help someone else than it is to do the things on your own. Also, I'm starting 23 Things tutoring. I find people use the things differently, so the more people I help learn the things, the more ways the use the Things I learn.



I had fun with this. I'll almost definitely keep up my blog. I find it to be amusing at the very least. Here's a not so good picture of me waving bye, or more precisely adieu. Until More Things, I'll see you then. Well, then and Thing 23

Thing 21

Other Social Networks. I started a Gather Account. I posted to the Doctor Who fan section of Gather, and I was not exactly impressed with Gather. Just another social network. I did the Ning thing too. I might be able to use that to run a Call of Cthulhu game with my pals. I think a play by Wiki will work out better. I'd probably use PB wiki for that. I joined the 23 Things Ning. Ning seems like it might be a little more useful to me than other things. It also sort of got lost in the shuffle. I couldn't remember if it was Gather or Ning or 43 Things that was the social network creation site. I also joined 43 things. That could also be useful. One of these days I'm going to write a novel. 43 Things might help me accomplish that.

I added a Ning badge to me wiki and I added another slide show with Ning. John keeps saying that 23 Things is, like, 3 things over and over again. The Ning slide show was totally that.

I am a member of a couple different online communities. Outpost Gallifrey, World of Warcraft, and Facebook and MySpace. So I'm not a stranger to this stuff.

Oh, I added a kick ass picture of Ultra Magnus for pretty much no reason.

I'm going to try 43 things for a bit. I might even check out a few others. Also, Ning might facilitate some online socializing of my own.

Thing #20

Facebook and MySpace. I've had both a Facebook and MySpace page for years. I started off with MySpace. It looked like a great way to keep in touch with all my hommies from college. Alas, I found that my network of hommies grew too large and unwieldy on MySpace. And then I started getting spam, and that ended my love of MySpace.

Then one of my Hommies got a Facebook account. He loved it and told me and some of our other hommies. I much prefer Facebook over MySpace. I find my network isn't so unwieldy and also, no spam. It's really easy to keep up with my friends, and I find it to be fun. I don't mind checking Facebook a few times a week. For some reason MySpace felt like a chore.

As far as layout is concerned, I don't have any sort of preference for one over the other. Managing my peeps is what my #1 concern is with the whole social networking thing. I don't want to get invites from bands in my area, I don't want to find out when Lyndsey Lohan is dropping her next album. I just want to keep up with my hommies and perhaps put up some amusing photos from time to time. That's about it.

This is my attempt at a mobile blog post. Let's see if it works.