Right. Onto week 2. iGoogle set up (although it took some convincing that I’m really, really not in Algeria) and RSS feeds added to Google Reader. So what do I think? Well, at first my iGoogle page was a bit of a mess, with gadgets from all over the place winding up there. But after some careful editing I can now keep up with news, update my to-do list, download free music, follow Google Reader RSS feeds, have a giggle at the daily comic strip and view the date and time. iGoogle will handily inform me when it is 17:00 and time to go home. Er, I mean when it's time for my next meeting. Not bad.
Like others, I’ve set iGoogle as my homepage and hope it will help me organise my time better, and possibly even my life. I wonder how long it will be before Google is doing my weekly shop, paying my bills, cutting my hair and booking my holidays? What’s that you say? It can do this already? I really wouldn’t be surprised.
I checked out the video on Upgrade and set up some RSS feeds, including all the 23 Things participant blogs. Phew, that took a while! It’ll be great to view everything in one place though, and being located at one of the smaller sites, it'll be a good way of keeping up to date with everyone at Northampton Square etc and get to know some of the new faces that have appeared since I left.
So, onto week three. Where are those embarrassing holiday snaps..?
Glad you're finding igoogle useful as this Thing seems to be dividing opnion a bit. It is good for organizing stuff and it's nice to add a random pictuure of the day to liven things up.
ReplyDeleteIf you feel that Google is taking over the world, well we will be looking at search engines other than google in week 9. I suspect that most peopel will continue to use Google though!
rss feeds are very useful, so glad you've got these set up. It's good to know about these to promote to students and staff, especially researchers. I use for literature search updates but other peopel use for keeing track of the latest deals/sales etc.
Week 3 has fewer things so hopefully you'll enjoy playing with the Cool Extra Things as they are quite fun!
Rowena 23 Things team