#42 googling together

I'm trying to get over the fact that Googlegroups reminds me of bulletin boards and ye olde worlde usenet (yes, I AM that old)! It isn't very user friendly, its layout is archaic and soc.library seems to be for people in Boston. I think that our Ning sites are much better for handling this kind of internet activity. Even a wiki could handle this kind of data. Posts are organised much better through a Ning, functionality is higher and well, it just looks better. We have all this wizbangery with the internet! Let's use it, people!

I did a search for cooking in googlegroups which returned lots of hits. I checked out rec.food.cooking which has a lot of activity. I think it's a good idea - though you have to be deeply passionate and deeply active to get the most out of this kind of web tool. Perhaps they don't need wizbangery??? I'm surprised that anyone posting here has anytime to cook! I want to know whether you search this stuff through google. Because if I"m interested in 'siliconed poached egg cups' for eg and want to know if people find them useful then searching google groups might be useful. But no, it seems the search doesn't infiltrate that deep.

Personally, I think that googlegroups resurrected the dodo without thinking what point there might be in doing such a thing!

#41 LiveMocha

LiveMocha is great! I can now say 'I'm a short fat man' in Japanese. I'm sure that will come in handy one day. I'm not sure about the social element - seems like a bit too much pressure to me. I chose Japanese which is hard to learn the characters and pronunciation and grammar! I suppose if you were serious you could get a lot out of it. It's a shame that you can't move through the language cards apart from sequentially and you have to follow the set course. But it's a fun way to learn a language!