Thing 10

Thing 10

Oh dear. I'm starting to get really stressed about this. Having spent most of the afternoon on this, I'm still only just starting the next Thing from the one I'd already started three weeks ago. I'm never going to catch up or finish all the Things by 9th April. ARGHHHH! Have just been advised to listen to Betthoven's Waldstein Sonata because "it always puts things into perspective", so shall do so as I attempt this next thing...

I couldn't find how to send my bookmarks to anyone. I found the Network options at that point, but wasn't sure I wanted automatically to share any bookmarks I add with everyone on my network - after all, they may not want to see everything I add. However, Thing 10 demands I do just that, so here I go.

I tried at first just going to Oxford Libraries' Delicious pages and clicking "Add to my network", but that didn't seem to work. I then tried again using the method described in the 23 Things message and think I must just have missed when it asked me if I wanted to add that Library as it appears in grey at the top of the screen and doesn't really stick out. I tried to add an RSS feed for the Information Literacy tag in Angela Carritt's list, but it didn't seem able to add it to Google Reader and I've added it to Live Bookmarks instead, but I don't see how to see them on Delicious, so maybe I've misunderstood and that's yet another external application in which I'd have to set up an account and so I can't find it after all.

I feel like my experience with this side of things has been a bit hit or miss and that following instructions doesn't always help and sometimes that's because I'm not following them closely enough and sometimes it's not.

I can't use the Delicious Network Explorer as it would require me to install a plugin.

Thing 9

Thing 9

I set up my Delicious account about three weeks ago and found a very interesting article on what defines / underpins web 2.0 and bookmarked it with the ox23 tag. Then I am afraid 23 Things got lost under the pile of Everything Else. So today I have bookmarked my 23 Things blog, my allotment blog and two websites that I use most: www.virtualflowers.com and Amazon. Plus LOLcats for some humour, which I tagged with ox23 in the hope it will make others smile.

I looked through other ox23 tags and read a few blog posts about Library use of Facebook, but the only thing I actually felt like bookmarking was the link to the History of the World in 100 Objects page on iPlayer.

I find going through all these things to find things you wish to add so time-consuming. I had thought 23 Things would be something one could spend half an hour a week on, but it takes so much more than that, which is why I've got so behind and, frankly, a bit jaded. I want to de-clutter my life, not add clutter. The adding gadgets to my Google homepage seemed to me to be symptomatic of this. I feel like I have so many more things to keep checking - when is there meant to be time for actual work or really using these things we're being introduced to?