Another 23 things in 2008

2007's 23things address is different

from the address 2008's 23 things.

These are the new things that are covered in this year's task which I plan to attend:

a. firefox extensions

Colin's 80th birthday

With the 23 things I learnt, i was motivated to upload a move clips for my father in law's 80th birthday. It involves creating an account with YouTube and upload the movie so that relatives in UK can also see that
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roebtS7FqxU

Apart from uploading youtube thing, another thing we have learnt is using the microsoft movie maker by uploading pics with a sound track embedded with the use of audicity software, with my daughter and myself, we spent a couple of hours and generated this one:

Find time for new things -cognitive surplus

Haven't had time for blog but today watched this video clips :
Clay shirky at WEb expo in SF april 2008
and found that pretty useful of how Clay Shirkly compared how much time we spent on TV and if the time is spent on contributing to Wikipedia, there would be plenty of projects being done. He is using the idea of cognitive surplus for making something more useful than simply passively receiving information as such.

New usage

I have introduced 'blog' to the new phds enrolled this year. I ask them to view the following blog as to see if they can benefit from this free network on their research and the blogpost address is:
http://doctoralpractices.blogspot.com/
I am hoping to see them to widen their views not just within this institution or their peers