Final Day

The long over due BLC09 final day post.

First session of the day was with Brian Mull and was on Google Tools.

He presented so many things that rather than list everything you can get a rundown over at his website here.

Somethings definitely worth mentioning though are two disposable e-mail address services that I had not played with yet Mailcatch and Mailinator. The way services like this work are when you are signing up for a service on a site and are not sure whether it is a completely honest site and do not want them to SPAM you just set up a quick one time e-mail address at either of these sites and you can get the registration/activation e-mail and then not worry about it again.

While going over some things with Google Docs he mentioned that although documents can be worked on simultaneously it can be messy at times. Although not mentioned in the session Google is working on a new service called Google Wave that may help with this situation. It is not currently available but on the site is a video demo of the service.

Another thing that was mentioned that was new to me was the ability to create forms using Google Docs. Which can be helpful with quick little quizzes and information forms online. However you can not limit the amount of times each user can fill in the form. For a service that allows you to do this check out Survey Monkey

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Next up was David Weinberger's keynote

For the Twitter chat stream and podcast go here.

This was a very good presentation on how the Internet is changing the way we get information and knowledge. He spoke about how paper and book style encyclopedias limit your ability to fully learn and explore a topic. On the web when looking at a topic you usually will have lots of different sites with many links to other sources of information where you can continually explore the subject and also get information that is more current than what you can find in book form.