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I use Google Reader for my RSS feeds. I subscribe to several blogs and LOVE the convenience of centralized access to the latest posts from sites that I find interesting. On Sunday mornings, I get my cup of coffee, plunk myself on the couch, turn on the laptop and "catch up" on my favourite web sites through 1 access point. BTW, Bibliocommons has an RSS feed for your favourite books... just sayin'.

Googled

I use quite a few of the Google products, but, embarassingly enough, I hadn't used the Google Books tool.

It has a search function so I searched for vermicompost. The list of books either have No preview available or Limited preview or Snippet view or Full view. The ones w/ no preview can either have the citation/cover by itself or with reviews if available. What's particularly impressive about the limited preview is the hot linked contents and citations. The snippet view has your search terms in context, but only in a snippet or portion of the page.

I was once again reading an article left by someone (our mystery enlightener) in our staff room. The article was talking about digital books by 2020. The author's point was that cheap, accessible text delivered electronically will be a positive change -- just like the dime novels of the past. Google books has already centralized access for J. Q. Public and has me really impressed.

Facing Facebook

For you, is Facebook useful or a time-waster?

A staff member (I don't know who!) put an article in the staff room...

"RIP digital me: Saying good-bye to Facebook"

www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/personal-tech/rip-digital-me-saying-good-bye-to-facebook/article1522456/

The part that caught my attention was "A cottage industry of performance artists and other Internet rebels has tapped into social media paranoia by launching such websites as Web 2.0 Suicide Machine and seppukoo.com ( a play on the ritual samurai suicide). The services allow users to activate a seris of software codes that enter their social media accounts and eliminate all posted images and text."

So that got me thinking (as an avid 2.0 user) could I do it? Could I pull the plug? And to make a long post a little longer, so far the answer is no ... so the answer is not so much useful, but certainly entertaining.

Wiki wiki scratch yo yo bang bang

How easy or difficult was it to find articles that needed editing? Were the errors you found factual or grammar / spelling?

Two TV shows come to mind -- South Park when Cartman parodies Will Smith's "The Wild West"
"Well, I'm a badass Cowboy livin' in the Cowboy days.
Wiki, wiki, scratch, yo, yo, bang, bang.
Me and Artemus Clyde frog go save Salma Hayek from the big metal spider.
A wiki wig wig wiki wiki wig
Fresh cowboy from the west side
Wiggy wiggy scratch yo yo bang bang
Me and Artemus Clyde frog go save Salma frog polly prissy pants
Go down to, well... rumpletumpskin"

and 2

The episode of 30 Rock when Jenna is going "in character" for her Janis Joplin biopic and the writers get into Wikipedia and make up all these weird things that Janis did so that Jenna will do them too. [the picture below is where she's about to eat a cat since that what it said in Wikipedia]

So to answer
How easy or difficult was it to find articles that needed editing? Were the errors you found factual or grammar / spelling?

Wayyyyyyyyy easy. The errors that I found weren't really errors -- they were phrases that were written in a way that could be considered absolutes, when in actuality there were other options. [that's a thing with me...]

Anyhoo, edited without an account and poof, it showed up. I was under the impression that one needed an account to edit, but today I learned something new. Thanks!