The Secret Mission
Priscilla hails from Australia. Her journey was sponsored by Heather Blakey, the webmaster of the Soul Food Cafe. Priscilla set out on the first world, Soul Food Tour, to meet and work with members of the Soul Food Community.
But just as Captain Cook left to do more than monitor the Transit of Venus, Priscilla left Australian shores with a secret mission. By her own admission she is computer illiterate, let alone Web 2.0 savvy. She hoping that her hosts will be whole lot savvier than her and that they will teach her and drag her into the digital world. Then, when she does visit young people, she will have some common knowledge and be able to speak their speak and walk their walk.
Hopefully, Priscilla will leave each host with a new skill. She left home with her own blogger but does not know how to operate it herself. For now she has to be content to marvel at it all and learn just what can be added to her blog. She has a list of things she wants to learn that came from an article about 43 things to learn this year. Hosts will choose from this list and add to her bag of knowledge here at Priscilla Web 2.0.
1. Take a digital picture with a camera and/or phone and download it to your PC.
2. Register at Blogger and start a blog. Post every once in a while and add a photo.
3. Register at Bloglines and aggregate your blog and RSS subscriptions into one reader. Check out what other blogs align with your interests.
4. Look at Facebook and see the next generation of social networking.
5. Set up a Flickr account and post a few of digital photos online. Tag and annotate them.
6. Look at Squidoo and find out how you can earn a little bit of money online.
7. Make a Cafe Press store and order you own notebooks, magnets, tee shirts etc.
8. Register at MSN Photo Album and build an album to share with friends, family, or colleagues.
9. Check out Myspace and see how this service has become so huge globally.
10. Have some fun with the links on the Generator Blog.
11. Download Firefox and compare it to Explorer and Opera.
12. Research bookmarklets and try a few.
13. Revisit Yahoo! and remind yourself why it is visited more than Google.
14. Learn about iFILM and viral video.
15. Get a PubSub account and start searching the future.
16. Make a map of all the countries or states you’ve been to at Visited Countries.
17. Experiment with some sound and picture search engines like Podscope.
18. Try some new Web search engines like Exalead, Wink, Gravee, Clusty, Mooter, Kartoo, etc., or others you can find at Search Engine Watch’s list.
19. Learn more about visual display tools like Grokker.
20. Check out Google Base and see what the fuss is all about.
21. Register with NetFlix and rent a movie. Learn how to deal with streaming media.
22. Get a Del.icio.us account and play with social bookmarking and tags.
23. Play with Blinkx and learn about searching TV shows, video and podcasts.
24. Try MovieFlix too. There are plenty of free movies here to learn to do this.
25. Set up a Google Picasa account. Post a picture and then edit it.
26. Download an MP3 file to your PC, laptop or phone. Try iTunes, LimeWire, Kazaa, or eDonkey. Look for something that’s not music too.
27. Listen to a podcast. There are quite a few about library issues, too.
28. Find your home and your office on Google Maps.
29. Check out your local public library’s website. You’ll likely find some cool stuff like talking books for that long commute, or classical music collections, or eBooks.
30. Change your ring tone so you don’t jump when everyone else’s default ring goes off.
31. Visit the Google Labs site regularly.
32. Set up a personalized Google or My Yahoo! page
33. Play with JibJab.
34. Play with Wikipedia. Edit an entry, feel the network.
35. Play with Copernic and extend your searching.
