Week 7: #17 Blog About Technology

This past week I learned how to convert a frame relay WAN circuit into an MPLS circuit that has 10% tagged basic packets, and 90% tagged enhanced packets so that the QoS (Quality of Service) could provide efficient means in which the UDP packets for the VOIP (Voice Over IP) would supercede the TCP packets for HTTP using a Cisco 2811 router. After this was completed, I installed a WAN optimization device so that the packets could then be compressed and cached. I used WCCP 2.0 for this as opposed to inline mode. All in all, not a bad day.

Just kidding! I copied that from another website. I actually used a few popular online auction websites (eBay, Craigslist) to sell several items. As they say, "one man's junk is another man's treasure." I found it to be fun, easy and cheaper to sell my items online as opposed to taking out an ad in the local newspaper or having a garage sale. Within a few days, the items had received bids higher than I anticipated. Speaking of newspapers, I now find it easier to use www.weather.com, www.cnn.com, and www.msn.com to gather information about news instead of reading the newspaper or watching television.

The second part, I added a comment on "ctechnonot" blog, #175, Week 7 #17.

Week 7: #16 So what's in a wiki?

Before doing this exercise, I heard of "wiki" and "wikipedia" but never really knew much about them. They were just cute sounding words. I now know that wiki means "quick" in Hawaiian, and how they are used. I can see where this could be helpful for the Library Friends Group or a Library Book Club.

After I accessed the iHCPL wiki, I created a login account and added to the favorite blogs on restaurants and television shows. I especially enjoyed seeing what others said were their favorites.

Week 6: #15 On Library 2.0 & Web 2.0

In Rick Anderson's article, "Away from the Icebergs," he speaks about how dramatically the world has change in the last decade. Libraries are no longer the only source for information. The internet is now available, and libraries need to adapt to the technological trends in order to better serve our customers. Technology will not replace the written word but it is just another tool to better serve the public.

Week 6: #14 Getting not-so technical with Technorati

I did an advanced search for "Learning 2.0" in Blog posts, in tags and in the Blog Directory and found that the results were different. Popular search was interesting for current events.

Week 6: #13---- Tags and Delicious

Listened to the video and signed up for Del.icio.us. I found a site on collectibles
that I enjoyed looking at.

Week 5 : Signing Up for Library Elf

Trying to locate where to sign up was not clear. Once I found up, the sign up was easy.

Week 5: # --Image Generators

I used Customize comic strips to create this cartoon.

Scooby-Doo Where are you?

Scooby-Doo and Shaggy were busy blogging until they discovered that they ran out of Scooby snacks. Talk about a writers' block...

Week 4: Finding Feeds

After looking at all the suggested sites for newsfeeds, I found ten by using the Blogline search tool. This was the easiest. Topix was interesting for the news but I had no interest in it. I found Syndic8 to be the hardest. Technorati was too overwhelming with the constant updates.

Week 4: #8 Make Life "really simple" with RSS & newsreader

I created my blogline account and chose my newsfields. This exercise was an interesting one.