Hi, is this really cool, or not? I think it is cool. You select what you like to read in the future and you read what you have selected before. Sounds really fine to me. How about you? If you are still think it is just another fancy tech word, please let me share with you about how I use RSS in a "real world"?
I am a yahoo.com user and set up my.yahoo.com years ago. Since RSS started to make buzz on the Internet, I checked it out. Then I designed my yahoo home page with a lot of RSS feeds from several major newspaper. So everyday I opened my yahoo home page, I will find preselected news on my yahoo home page. Of course, I put my email preview on the home page too, so I can check it the first thing in the morning.
When I find somethings interesting, I will add them to my yahoo news feeder if they are RSS ready. Therefore, next time I will get all the updates for that new added item and don't have to do my search again.
In one really simply sentence, RSS provides a way for me to manage my online information resources. I like it.
For the purpose to accomplish our Learning 2.0 exercise, I set up a bloglines account and published my bloglines account. Here is the link to my bloglines page: http://www.bloglines.com/public/masonyang.
Enjoy it, I hope!!!
Monday, January 22, 2007
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
iPhone?
Do you really want an iPhone? No, I don't.
I have a cell phone to make phone calls and take pictures once a while. That is it, a simple, boring, and regular cell phone user. I know there will be a market for the fancy and sexy iPhone, but I am not looking forward to this so called "new generation" cell phone. Please, if you have the money to spend on new technologies, find something really useful and creative, not a new package of old things.
I have a cell phone to make phone calls and take pictures once a while. That is it, a simple, boring, and regular cell phone user. I know there will be a market for the fancy and sexy iPhone, but I am not looking forward to this so called "new generation" cell phone. Please, if you have the money to spend on new technologies, find something really useful and creative, not a new package of old things.
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Let's talk about "retrievr", an application of Flickr
Hi, it is really funny. Check this out: Retrievr at: http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/.
I thought it was a great and exciting idea to have such a system to retrieve images from a sketch. But, actually, it just a great idea, not a real image retrieve system, at least not up to my expectation. When I tried to draw a sketch of flowers, it did return 3 pictures of flowers out of 20 results. Not too bad though.
I thought it was a great and exciting idea to have such a system to retrieve images from a sketch. But, actually, it just a great idea, not a real image retrieve system, at least not up to my expectation. When I tried to draw a sketch of flowers, it did return 3 pictures of flowers out of 20 results. Not too bad though.
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Sony eBook reader
Sony eBook reader
Originally uploaded by TeddyTheBear.
Is this the future of the book reading? I really doubt about it.
I won't deny I am a old fashion guy, but I do have an open mind to all kinds of new stuff. While this is not my type. I can read, actually browse, a real book and get what I want in twenty mintues. But I can't do it with this fancy thing. I just don't know how I can flip pages to scan lines while I am trying to figure out what I am really looking for. Anyway, I might need to get use to it in the future. But right now, it is not my thing.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Day 2: A Lifelong Learner or A Player?
Opps! Glad to see the last half habit. I do have this half for sure. So here is my list of this 7 1/2 habits from easiest to hardest:
1. Play: sure, I love to play all kinds of fun things. Internet, computer, sports, home improvement, and cars are my favorite things to play with.
2. Use technology to your advantage: I might be a little bit "addictive" on this, so sometime I spend a lot of time on finding a new technology to solve a problem, which I won't use it very often. For example, I have been using Yahoo! Calendar for a while, but I still spent a lot of time on learning the Google Calendar. I should save some time on this habit now.
3. View problems as challenges:
4. Teach/Mentor others: actually, I would say sharing with others is more of my type.
5. Create your own learning toolbox: sometimes learning new things is not always exciting or fun, it might be boring and hard to start. Find a way to make yourself comfortable and enjoying during the process is really helpful.
6. Have confidence:
7. Accept responsibility for your own learning:
8. Begin with the end in mind: Sometime I forget to plan it ahead and then lost my direction in the middle. This is what I really need to catch up with.
I am glad to see this list done and looking forward to adjusting myself in this Learning 2.0 project.
1. Play: sure, I love to play all kinds of fun things. Internet, computer, sports, home improvement, and cars are my favorite things to play with.
2. Use technology to your advantage: I might be a little bit "addictive" on this, so sometime I spend a lot of time on finding a new technology to solve a problem, which I won't use it very often. For example, I have been using Yahoo! Calendar for a while, but I still spent a lot of time on learning the Google Calendar. I should save some time on this habit now.
3. View problems as challenges:
4. Teach/Mentor others: actually, I would say sharing with others is more of my type.
5. Create your own learning toolbox: sometimes learning new things is not always exciting or fun, it might be boring and hard to start. Find a way to make yourself comfortable and enjoying during the process is really helpful.
6. Have confidence:
7. Accept responsibility for your own learning:
8. Begin with the end in mind: Sometime I forget to plan it ahead and then lost my direction in the middle. This is what I really need to catch up with.
I am glad to see this list done and looking forward to adjusting myself in this Learning 2.0 project.
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Day 1: Create my personal blog
What a great opportunity to learn new tech stuff through this program!
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