Technocrat or Not?

Discovery Exercise
Week 6
Exercise 14
Getting not-so-technical with Technorati

Apparently I wasn't impress with Technorati, but I did find this neat site.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheFrugalLawStudent

What's in your closet?

Discovery Exercise
Week 6
Exercise 13
Tagging makes the web 2.0 world go round

The idea of bookmarking a web page has been around for quite sometime, but the innovation of Del.icio.us allowing you to add tags to categorize your bookmarks has made it a great social bookmarking manager and a great tool for today's busy society.

Catch the Elf

Discovery Exercise
Week 5
Exercise 12
The "Library" Elf will remind you!

If your local library doesn't provide a reminder service, Libraryelf.com is the answer. Parents will find it very usefull since they are often juggling with multiple accounts. It will become your library account itinerary.

MyConsuming

Discovery Exercise
Week 5
Exercise 11
A Thing about Library Thing

Allconsuming.net is creative way for you to express yourself and see what interest people have that you may share. But at the end of this exercise I began to think back to Week 2 Exercise 4 "Online Safety and Sharing". Little by little we begin to divulge our personal and private life online. My question is, "Is our government doing market research trough allconsuming.net?

Vanity License Plate

Discovery Exercise
Week 5
Exercise 10
Play around with Image Generators

A website like ImageGenerator.Org gives you at least 47 sites which you can use to create neat and personal custom graphics and clipart.

Below you'll see E39 BMW vanity license plate

Valuable Information

Discovery Exercise
Week 4
Exercise 9
Finding Feeds

While searching for information on "E39 Navigation", the results turned out to be exaggeratedly different. Technorati displayed 20 results while Feedster displayed 4 results. Which one did I find more useful? Although both are great, my search result was incline towards Feedster.

As a result I found information regarding key programming, odometer programming, etc.
See for yourself. http://www.autosvs.com/product/?feed=rss

50/50 on RSS and newsreader - "NOT" for everyone

Discovery Exercise
Week 4
Exercise 8
Make life "really simple" with RSS and a newsreader

I personally don't find it useful. Yes, it's helpful but not necessary, unless you what be updated with the lates gossip (Britney Spears looses custody of children) fashion (flip-flops are not fashionable), gadgets (lates price cut on iPhone), etc.

E39 5series Picture Effects

Discovery Exercise
Week 3
Exercise 7
Photo Editing Tools

Below are pictures that were edited using software provided by Pixer, Snipshot and Picnik.
All three are great, but the best site do edit your pictures is Picnik.

e39 Invert

e39 Invert
Originally uploaded by E39 BMW 5 Series

E39 Oil Painting

E39 Oil Painting
Originally uploaded by E39 BMW 5 Series

e39 pencil sketch

e39 pencil sketch
Originally uploaded by E39 BMW 5 Series

Spell with Flickr

Discovery Exercise
Week 3
Exercise 6
More Flickr Fun

Mashup is a site that has the ability to spell out a message you enter by drawing it with photographs hosted by Flickr. Once message is drawn out, you can change the message by clicking on the letters you don't like. Spell with Flickr provides HTML code to paste picture message on your own site.
http://metaatem.net/words/

Example: E39 BMW 5 Series