Thang 8 - Wikili

So the Wikis are kind of cool, even though some have so many available editors. I do have a group of women whom I plan things with through email and it is usually a ridiculous mess of emails to go through, so I set up a "Chickie Wiki" for that group. Hopefully they will like it and use it and I no longer have to wade through the emails to see what is going on. I also updated the Ultimate Dream Supply Kit and was happy with that, though I wish there were more design elements involved in the layout of the editable regions. As far as Wikipedia is concerned, I am glad that they watch their pages so closely. If someone puts up the wrong information, it is corrected surprisingly speedily.

This is Thang 8 - Wikili. Her mask implies that we don't always know the identity of the last editor, and the long tentacles are her reach, as well as the reach of other editors, into the data.

Thang 7 - Doc

So I downloaded Dropbox, and tried both Google docs and Zoho. I like the Dropbox for its immediacy, but for school, it would not work on the shared computers. Google and Zoho seemed relatively interchangeable in terms of complexity of use, but Google also had a calendar and web-building tools that I did not see on Zoho. I made an extra document on Google here. It seems like a good strategy, and I liked that you seemed to be able to get to past iterations of the document (I am a little nervous about people weighing in on something I sweated over without being able to get back to the original document). It's also nice to have a digital version to get to over the web, though there are several strategies for that, and I would be also be concerned to only have one version of a document out there. What if something (God forbid) happened to Google?

This is thang 7, Doc. He represents some of the oldest and stodgiest software, but in his own way is ready to get on board for the future of documents.

Thang 6 - Stumbly

So I looked at the different social media sites, and decided to register for Stumble. I chose Stumble for a few different reasons: personal preference on the site design, and happening to like some of the content on the first pages. I also liked the addition onto Firefox - there is a button added toolbar that you can click on to see random sites. It seems to be a huge time suck. Below is a cartoon created at a site I found, and I think I have spent several hours looking at some-good, some-not-so-good sites. But I know I have found sites that I find interesting at a much faster clip today than normal. And though I have wasted time and feel a bit frustrated, I do not feel as upset by it as I have in the past.

By the way, this is Stumbly. She is feeling her way through the internet, but has some help with her bat senses. I think she is trying her best, though she is held back by some other internet deformities (like how can you truly know what a person is interested in through such broad categories).