The Wisdom of Crowds- Class 4

The Wisdom of Crowds: Wikis, Tagging and Social Bookmarking- June 22, 2009

SOURCES DISCUSSED:

· Wikipedia- Wikipedia.org

· wikiHow- wikihow.com

· Wetpaint Wikis- wetpaint.com

· Delicious- delicious.com

· Digg- digg.com

· Stumbleupon- stumbleupon.com (this is my favorite!)

· Yahoo Buzz- buzz.yahoo.com

· Technorati- technorati.com

· Reddit- reddit.com

· Google Wave (preview)- wave.google.com

OTHER GOOD SITES on Web 2.0 applications:

· Mashable: The Social Media Guide- mashable.com

· Web 2.0 Tools and Applications- go2web20.net

· Read Write Web- readwriteweb.com

ARTICLES TO FURTHER YOUR KNOWLEDGE:

· The Practical Guide To Content Tagging In Social Bookmarking-http://tinyurl.com/7frkay

· Google Wave: A Complete Guide- http://tinyurl.com/mk898h

· What is Web 2.0? (dated, but seminal) - http://oreilly.com/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html

Hi Class...I am headed to NYC tomorrow for my daughter's engagement party, but do email me if you have any questions about this week's "assignment" and I'll try to reply. I'm having a great time with the class and I hope you all are also. I'm pasting in below all of the sources we discussed last class. If there's something else I promised to do, please remind me- it's been a hectic week for me. See you all next Monday!

OLLI Web 2.0 Class- Class 3- “Sharing Content”- Sources

1. Websites discussed:

· New York Times- nytimes.com

· Huffington Post- huffingtonpost.com

· Google Reader- google.com/reader

· ABC News- abcnews.go.com

· Federal government Economic Stimulus- recovery.org

· YouTube- youtube.com

· Flickr- flickr.com

· Picasa/Picasa Web- picasa.google.com

· iTunes- apple.com/itunes

· NPR Podcasts-

npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php

· Podcast Alley- podcastalley.com

2. Getting Started/Basic How-to Pages

· Google Reader: http://tinyurl.com/8daxmr

· YouTube Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/46due9

· Getting Started with Podcasts in iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/dyfnnw

3. Videos we viewed:

· Google Reader in Plain English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSPZ2Uu_X3Y

· Online Photo Sharing in Plain English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPU4awtuTsk

· Podcasting in Plain English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-MSL42NV3c

2. Articles on how content-sharing, user-generated sites are changing how we get our news:

· Internet Brings Events in Iran to Life, BBC News, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8099579.stm

· Mobile Phones, Facebook, YouTube Cut in Iran, AFP, http://tinyurl.com/lclple

Did you make a blog?

I hope you had a restful week, and looking forward to seeing you all again tomorrow. At least 5 of you have shared your blogs with me...all terrific! Most of tomorrow's class will be concerned with "social networking" sites, but I do plan on spending some time at the beginning going over blogs, showing some of the ones you've created, and answering any questions you might have about them. If you've made a blog and you haven't shared it with me yet, send me the URL before tomorrow and I'll put a link to it in my presentation. (Hal, could you re-send me your blogs' URL?....just copy the address that's up in the URL bar at the top when you've got the blog on the screen...the one you gave me earlier is not working. Thanks...)

OK, I hope you're enjoying the class, and let's see what we can learn about Facebook, Twitter, etc. tomorrow. See you then! Kathy

Scenes from our first class

Here are a couple of photos from our June 1st Class.

OLLI Web 2.0 Class- Class 1- BLOGS- Sources and Terms

1. Searching for Blogs that interest you:

a. Technorati- technorati.com

b. Blog Catalog- blogcatalog.com

c. Blog Search Google- blogsearch.google.com

d. Bloglines- bloglines.com

2. Creating a Blog-

a. Wordpress- wordpress.org

b. Blogger- blogger.com

3. Creating a Google Account- google.com/accounts

4. Blogs that were shown-

a. Boing Boing- boingboing.net

b. Daily Kos- dailykos.com

c. 538.com- fivethirtyeight.com

d. Tucson on the Cheap- tucsononthecheap.com

5. Mini-videos we viewed:

a. Blogs in Plain English- www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI

b. Blogger How-to- www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnploFsS_tY

6. Web 2.0 Vocabulary-

a. Post- a written entry in a Blog

b. Thread- posts that are on a related topic; follow from each other

c. Troll- someone who posts controversial or inflammatory messages

d. Lurker- someone who reads messages, but rarely posts

e. Blogosphere- a collective term encompassing all blogs and their interconnections

f. Blogroll- a list of recommended blogs on a blog

g. Links- mentions of websites/other blogs; allows you to click right to them

h. Avatar- a digital representation of a person or thing

i. Usenet- a world-wide distributed discussion system of newsgroups; loosely, a precursor to blogs

j. BBS/Internet Discussion Forums- evolution of an early Internet technology that allowed users to post messages; another precursor to blogs, but still in wide use

Our First Class

Monday, June 1st is our first class in the OLLI Green Valley Web 2.0 Class. We'll learn what Blogs are, how to create one, and then we'll all create our own at home. Whoopee!