Other people's blogs

Well, some other 23 Things participants have beautiful blogs, and put mine to shame. I shall attempt to brighten mine up a bit. I've looked at some external ones suggested on the 23 Things blog, and the styles are all so different. Some are factual, informative, and anonymous. Others are startling in their openness, abundant in photos and personal information.

23 Things

I already had a Google ID, as I use gmail and googledocs, so Thing 1 was easy.

Thing 2 was to personalise an igoogle page. I had been meaning to do this before I heard of 23 Things. Who wouldn't want a large clock and constantly updated weather information watching over them! More seriously, I am hoping to find and keep better track of information relevant to work from blogs and other sources that I wouldn't previouslyhave used.

So far I haven't done anything very exciting with igoogle. Some things don't seem to display as nicely as others, for example, hotmail, which comes complete with adverts, and rather spoils the look. I am hoping to improve it over the next few weeks.

Alexandria

Thing 3 is the creation of a blog. I have always wondered how people find the time to blog. The chance to have a go is welcome, and I hope eventually that I might turn this into a regular blog for our departmental homepage.

It's easier than I thought it would be to set up something basic, and posting, editing, etc. seem to be fairly intuitive.

Alexandria seemed like an appropriate name, though I might change it to "Lost in Alexandria".

So far, "23 Things" has been well set out and informative, and I am looking forward to exploring more of the Web 2.0 environment beyond. There is life beyond Facebook!