Week 8: Discovery Web 2.0

I browsed through the book section of the web 2.0 awards. Biblio.com allows you to search through over 50 million rare books, maunscripts and incunabula. Some interesting finds were:

First-edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Flappers and Philosophers' in green-cloth, lettered in gilt and blind $ 55,000

A very rare first issue of Baudelaire’s “Fleurs du mal,”Containing the Six Suppressed Poems
$19,500

A signed and inscribed presentation copy of Louis Ferdinand Celine's Voyage Au Bout de La Nuit by Editions Denoel et Steele $27, 000

Cosmographica by Ptolemy Super-Royal folio, with woodcut historiated and Maiblumen initials, ornamental woodcut borderpieces $1,275,000

Bibliophilia is not for the man of humble means.

Week 8: Online productivity tools

Zoho was blocked but Google docs was quite impressive, very useful especially for people who rely on public computers. The user examples were interesting and showed its wide variety of applications such as planning a trip through Alaska. I can even see myself utilizing this program for certain peregrinations in soviet wastelands and the like.

Week 7: Social Networking

I like the Hennepin page. I might use facebook if I went overseas otherwise I don't really see the point, blogs are bad enough. Maybe I should become a luddite.