Tweet Deck

Just learned about TweetDeck (http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/), which is an adobe air product which allows you to install other dynamic programs to filter items. TweetDeck allows me to filter out or create groups of my friends or people I follow in Twitter. It is really making interaction so much easier and makes it less to filter myself. So, Kudos to Chicken And Stars for sharing this cool tool!

I am feeling a bit of overwhelming senses from all the the stuff that comes in. Too many lines. I think with the new communication like twitter, I get more from that, including announcements than I do from email. Too many folks are hitting reply to all. I wish folks would start interacting wiht blogs, wiki's, and twitter to share out community or team work. There is just too much stuff coming in and it really drives me nuts. I am noticing that I completely zone any more.

But the confusion may also be coming from... I have been listening and catching up with a lot of audio podcasts. So, I start to listen on way to work, then continue to listen at work. I think this is a bit too multi-sensory approach for me. I think I need to do one thing and concentrate a bit more. I think with so much going on it is really making a lot of things confusing. I have also noticed that as long as I am somewhere with internet, I am connected and tuned in. I need to start turning off and giving myself a bit of a break. Last night. I turned tv off, put music on and did some work for about an hour and a half. And I got a lot done.

So, I think I might start creating at least an hour of time during evening's I am home to just do this. Because even when I work out, I am using Nike + and excited to get home and sync up my workout.

digital disorder and chicken and stars

I am sitting here finishing listening to episode three of chicken and stars, http://chickenandstars.wordpress.com/, and am so psyched that I was mentioned. My digital identity was. Which is so cool I am so excited. But I was also feeling so understanding of the information overload. I was really feeling overloaded with my digital disorder, which was a stick I submitted for summer camp. Which will be so excited.

I am also very excited that there is movements like chicken and stars and others that are reaching out to keep us ID and technology folk connected to main campus. Which is so very cool!

I also began a new use of time, which is my running late time and am using that half hour of so to catch up with podcasts, which I am so behind in. So, I am getting to use my new ipod, very pretty pink, and filling in that void time that I feel so wasted because stuck in car. So, I no longer feel bad. I am populating my ipod with chicken and stars and also ets talks for commute and also my vacation time which is approaching and I will have a lack of internet connection and hoping this will keep me connected. If I stay at my brothers house, he has no tv, so I can listen to podcasts and watch movies on the computer. So, I will feel like I am going back in time during that trip.

chicken and stars

I've read twitter feeds on chicken and stars quite often lately. I finally googled it tonight. And discovered that it is a podcast and blog site created by colleagues. They use their twitter names and their names on the site. They talk about new technology and their uses and interactions and communications using new technologies.

It is very fun. Check them out. Sync their podcasts, read their blog at http://chickenandstars.wordpress.com/2008/06/

Oh and I created a wordpress user id, so I can interact more with this site in the future!

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Time Capsules

I just found a new tool at Photo Jojo ( http://www.photojojo.com ). It syncs up your flickr and creates a very cool time capsule for you.

You can check out my first time capsule here - http://www.photojojo.com/timecapsule/dancinjul/2008-7-15

Check them out!

July 8, 2008 - Quick Share - Up to Date

Quickly to get up to date on technologies I am looking at... (sorry this is a bit long winded.)

Might of Many a game in Facebook and other applications like the starbucks application and more. How can groups reach out to more folks and share information?


Shelfari - I am building a new bookshelf in there and figuring out which one I like, that compared to library thing, compared to iRead (facebook app.) to book swap or crossing. I am leaning toward Shelfari, most user friendly and I actually am connect with some folks I reached out to already.


Microblogging - checking out Plurk in comparison to Twitter, which I am using and heavily relying on to interact with folks and it has made me feel closer to my co-workers that are ids's at U.P.


Adobe Air - I am using twhirl to stay connect with my Twitter flock. Also, I just started using snackr. I was able to import my opml file from google reader, so I have just been still linking my links in google reader, so I can use google reader on the road and share out the feeds, if I have to. I am not sure if I like snackr, it makes my screen way busy. It is almost like the digital disorder sticker I created for Learning Design Summer Camp.


Stickers - made a few for Learning Design Summer Camp, but only uploaded my digital disorder sticker. I am looking forward to and have to finalize my travel to Learning Design Summer Camp. The group seems like it will become an active group. It is exciting. And the group is using the PSU wiki project to communicate and share things and also Twitter. I learned about it through a twitter feed.


I am maintaining my current pix in flickr. I am maintaining my links in del.icio.us, which was way hard to get into, now I love. And I used del.icio.us and feeds to build a links page for a faculty member, now all she needs to do is insert a link in del.icio.us with the right tags for it to show up in her links page. Yay!


Social Networks - Trying to stay up to date and active in some ning networks and in facebook, so I am actually using myspace way less. And I am still lost with Linked in.


Pandora Radio - is a music genome project. It is way cool and I can program in music which interests me and then it plays music similar or in the likeness of what I declare is my favorites. It is so way cool. I am really loving it!


FriendFeed, someone mentioned in twitter and I looked it up and I have created an account and went in and officially updated it and will try to play with it a bit more and more consciously.


I am also currently checking out and getting on track with my workouts using nike +, which I already uploaded information about in my previous post.


My cousin created a network in Reverbnation, so I am playing with that and keeping up to date on what they are doing and listened to their latest song there.


I also explored digital rodeo a bit a social networking site for folks like me who like country music.


Finally, I joined a reading group, that I discovered through Twitter with other psu co-workers and we will discuss Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger.


Tomorrow I have a meeting with Matt from Digital Commons, so I am excited to hopefully begin the steps to get on board with that project. We have bought a lot of pieces of technology to begin moving in that direction.


Then I am off and training the library cms tomorrow at Berks and Thursday at Wilkes-Barre.


Then Back to go to Blob Ball on Friday night, which there is a scene in the original Blob movie that was filmed at the Colonial Theater in Phoenixville and each year they have a festival to celebrate that event. The Rivers of Rockabilly are playing and I will finally after about two weeks be able to dust off my jitterbug dance shoes and go and dance. And oh yeah they do have a blog and they do have several videos on youtube.

iFit!

I finally got my shoe pouch. I did my first walk/run. I am starting out slow and will mostly walk. My goal, if I stick to it and run for a two or so week period... I will get myself a better pair of sneakers to use.

Here is what nike + site looks like and how it shares my fitness.

New Pink Ipod (July 3, 2008)

New Pink Ipod (July 3, 2008)
Originally uploaded by kuljuls.

My new ipod has just come in. I did get the Nike + Air, but am waiting for the contraption to attatch it to my shoe laces before I test it out.

I think I have successfully moved my library over. I will soon find out. I am excited to use it and travel with it, because it is much smaller than my ipod photo. Plus, it has video, so before my next trip I plan on putting a movie on it. Yay!!!!

I am currently checking out the web episodes of The Motherhood, which features Chelsea Handler, perfect for a rainy Fourth of July!