Wk6 NEW Tools
Posted by undergrad on August 21, 2009
bulk carrier
The Pasha Bulker image after I messed it up in Photoshop! Hopefully the altered image was one of the earlier non-attributed ones, but I must acknowledge smh.com.au, Reuters, Newcastle Herald and Peter Stoop who has a similar picture credited to his name in later updates.
Oh, all these WONDERFUL TOYS… I have gone from one amazing url to another until I looked at the time and realised several hours had gone happily by. Thank you for all these new reporting tool demonstrations. Maybe reporting won’t come into it for some of us however – these are in the realm of NEW, FREE, T O Y for me.
Of all these exciting sites I enjoyed WORDLE the most, being addicted to online Scrabble.
Feinberg
Jonathan Feinberg has a GREAT invention in Wordle but guards his privacy pretty closely. He knows you’ll keep googling him until you find a personal image so he’s made himself unrecognisable! I LIKE that, and the fact he gives credit to IBM Research for allowing him to experiment on their time. blog.wordle.net/ is his own and as far as blogs go it gives me heart to see how dead PLAIN and basic it is.
Not everyone likes Wordle; one blogger noted that Wired magazine used Wordle to analyse political speeches – Feinberg says it’s just for FUN.
http://www.designlessbetter.com/blogless/posts/is-wordle-good
Feinberg is going to have to get used to publicity – check out his Five Word Speech -
CoverItLive gets my next vote and the Geelong siege story is intriguing to follow online.
The only negative in this Week 6 was learning about “Twitterature”, where classic novels are condensed into about 20 “tweets” – each post being a “tweet” of 140 characters. Oh dear.
