Thing #4 (Out of Order)

Commenting is important for several reasons. Obviously it gives feedback and hopefully allows people to improve their blogs. Most importantly, I think it is important because the great strength that the web has over all other previous media is the extreme ability it has to facilitate the networking and distribution of information. There is just not enough time for any one person to sift through all of the information available. By blogging and commenting on blogs, we can take advantages of our peers as information filters to bring exciting things to our attention and share the task of weeding through the tons and tons of chaff to get to the good stuff that is out there. Commenting makes the communication of a blog two way, thus making it much faster and more effective.
Two points that I got from the readings were the fact that it lets others know that their Blogs are being read and thus encourages them to keep it up and the fact that it can call attention to ones own blog. These just go back to the points I made earlier about how the more connections in both directions we make out here on the internet, the more effective this amazing new tool will be to us.
Miranda's Blog: I commented on how he seemed unimpressed with the mind maps in thing fourteen. I suggested that he try to do an actual project with them instead of just clicking around. I found that it actually helped me think about the complex process of to do things in planning a field trip. the key is how FAST the thing works so one can write stuff down as fast as one thinks and it is neat and savable and organized.
Mechelle Scotts 23 things: I commented the following:I like the design of your flow chart and this blog page in general. They look nice! You produce good stuff! You should put in some more pictures and examples! I have gotten great practice by putting in pictures and things whenever possible. It is not that hard. I liked her stuff but noticed that she had not put in too many pictures or examples. I hope my encouragement helps
Candi Ciola's Blog thing 12: I checked out Igoogle. I liked your phrase "internet command center" very apt. I made one too. I wish she had put a picture of her igoogle page up there.
Rebecca Curtis's blog, Curtis 2009 on thing nine: I checked out phototrix and it was fun. I hadn't noticed that when I did this "thing". Pretty cool. I liked the website that I had skipped over when I did thing 9.
CheyenneLuther's blog, Thing 13 I appreciate the review of the word processor feature. I did my project on the slide show maker. I did miss the ability to do drawings. It is a pain to make a drawing and save it as a picture and then insert it. still it is good for the price... free Maybe she can come up with a better way of putting drawings into these Zoho documents.

OUT OF CLASS BLOGS This was kind o fun.
I found about a new place to hike in this blog:http://www.zevonprice.com/?p=35 Here is a link to it.
http://www.baysmountain.com/
I just thanked her for the review.I enjoyed reading about bays mountain. I used to live in Ktown and never made it up there. I'll have to check it out.

I found out about a place that sounds awesome!!!. No doubt I'll need to shape up before I try this one, but I'm gonna do it!!! Beats the heck out of blogging! :) Check out "The Walls of Jericho hike at this blog
http://timothyeggstuff.blogspot.com/2009/04/kevins-jericho-report.html?showComment=1239772980000#c7067540000989804923 intimidating review. Here is my comment: Nice read. I'll think about getting into better shape before I try this one.
I never knew about Blogs as such a resource for finding hikes! I can get into this!