Néné's mixed goodies

I'm your ghost co-student, because I live in England. I've been blogging for years, read it here.

Like Lennart I also use LibraryThing (link to my own page) and StumbleUpon. I use Flickr (again link to my own page) for pictures, Google video for guess what (but might soon change to Vimeo on recommendation of my eldest son who dabbles a lot in video) and Google Docs for writing, saving and sharing documents with other Google users. I use Delicious for my private bookmarks and Connotea for my LIS links. Then there's Netvibes, which I use for easy access to the blogs I follow regularly (RSS). I'm a Wordpress blogger and a Mac-user so I of course peruse all sites with those two names in them (more or less). I'm also on LinkedIn and on FaceBook. Let's connect if you're there too. Please write to me that you're from the Web 2.0 course, since I won't meet you and hence will not know your name.

Here's a useful blog to follow if you're interested in creating stuff on the web (it's in Danish).

I use Firefox for almost all my browsing, but also have Safari installed. Will definitely try out Google's browser Chrome when it becomes available for Mac. All my techie PC friends are crazy about it. My searches are lazily mainly in Google, but when I run into dead ends, I also try Cuil (pronounced cool).

I use lots of dictionaries and other info-sources. There's Merriam-Webster, which is incredibly useful. It will even teach you to pronounce the words so you won't make a fool of yourself when presenting in English. Then there's the Acronym Finder, which is useful in many walks of life. And there are two sites about hoaxes and pranks on the Internet, which I use whenever I have to convince somebody that their chain mail about rewards from Microsoft or whatever is a hoax. It's Break the Chain and Urban Legends. I make a living as a translator, so I subscribe to Ordbogen.dk. It's not perfect, but in combination with my paper dictionaries and M-W, it's very quick and not expensive. I'm a registered user at Wikipedia, which I use a lot. Here's something I've written about that for my previous course with Birger Hjørland.

Many librarians blog. Here are my favourites: Steven's Lighthouse, Phil Bradley, the Blue Skunk Blog and the legendary Mary Ellen Bates. A few other blogs, which point in the general direction of Web 2.0: On Anthropology and Economy in a web-sense, on all things web 2.0 and the Godfather of Web 2.0 Kevin Kelly.

And then there's the best content on the web: TED. (Challenge: spend 3-4 hours there and then point me to another place on the web where you can learn more in such a short time (except maybe for Videojug, but that's more hands on!).

That's all I could think of right now. More will come to mind later...