I’m on Twitter now – which I’m going to try to update more frequently than Facebook and definately more frequently than this blog. So follow me @cmumathwhiz or twitter.com/cmumathwhiz and if you are on twitter too – let me know so I can follow you! You can also see my most recent tweets to the left here.
What is twitter you ask? Time to rely on a past Website Wednesday to help you out – check out the basic introduction from Common Craft at http://www.commoncraft.com/twitter
Ok – back again after a brief break. Don’t you just love those random breaks I take? Never know what’s happening – keeps you on your toes!
This week’s website is for one of the many video podcasts that I watch on a regular basis. This week is Hak5 at www.hak5.org The Hak5 show comes out once a week and is about 30-45 mins long. Their focus is on computers and other technology and the many other things you can do with them. There is a wide range of topics covered from network security to gaming consoles to passwords to DIY to homeberw to who knows what. Some of the items they cover could be illegal if used in the wrong way, but very informative so you can be more secure with your own computers. A good show to help keep up with what is going on in the geek world. I always enjoy watching it to see what else I could be doing with my techno skills and what crazy things they will try next.
Remember to Trust Your Technolust!
This week’s website will follow the geek theme of last week. The website is Think Geek which has everything you could want to buy that’s geeky! Their slogan is “Stuff for Smart Masses.” They have everything from useful gadgets, to bizarre items, to completely wacky and useless – but absolutely needed – items!
Some of the items that I have from them and love include:
They have a little bit of everything – I can spend hours looking through what they have. Also, if you ever need or want to buy me something – feel free to check out my wish-list!
This week’s website is one of the many websites that I use to satisfy my never ending thirst for all knowledge geeky/nerdy! It’s Slashdot. As Slashdot itself says it is “News for nerds. Stuff that matters.” It’s a website that allows users to submit news stories related to a variety of tech and then users can comment on them. It is such a popular website that having a story posted on it can cause the Slashdot Effect (or more commonly known on slashdotting) This happens when a hot story is posted that causes people to click through to the website the story, pictures, etc. is on and the server can’t handle the mass influx of traffic and the website goes down.
Slashdot breaks down the news stories by category so that if you are only interested in certain topics you can view the topics of interest to you.
So if you are looking for a way to keep up some the “News for nerds.” check out Slashdot. (Keep in mind if you visit it today, April 1, of what day it is – so don’t believe everything you read for today’s stories.)