Week Four
Finally here, this is getting a bit hard with no computer or Internet at home and an overwhelming work load at work.
Searching through Diigo, I found it easy to manouvre through and signed in using good old Google. I joined up and am now following 1 person who has similar interests, checked out the community and started making a reading list of 4 interesting sites and articles which I added to my library.
As I'm not a real group joiner I did not join any groups..... yet. although I would not discount it for the future.
I also looked over Instapaper and found this to be a useful tool for me reading articles.
I added The Library of Utopia to be read later in a folder I named "work related" and America's Last Prisoner of War in my "general interest" folder.
The one thing that urks me about the web and all the tools we are learning about is the fact that they all seem to be Americanised. I know America has a big user base and companies like Apple and HP are based there but hey how about some Aussie, Pommy, or bright New Zealander coming up with something like these sites..... we do have intelligent people here too, its not a Yanky syndrome.
lol you are so right, that really irks me too to be honest. unfortunately for us the majority of these sites come out of the US so their content is almost always US driven and focused. Outside of America, the hottest country for tech innovations is actually Israel so we have a lot of catching up to do :) We can only hope that there are some talented youngsters working on Australasian sites at this moment! But good to hear about all your exploration on diigo and instapaper, hope they prove useful for you :)
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