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[joeygil07]

23 Research Data Things: Thing 4

23 Research Data Things: Thing 4

Thing 4 – Data Discovery – Repositories and Portals Thing 4 looks at data discovery, particularly via repositories and portals. Ways the Weddel Seals in Antarcia record is more discoverable and accessible: A record for the data is in the ANDS portal, (which is where the link goes to), not just in the Australian Antarctic Data Centre. Users can add tags in ANDS. With the tags being searchable, the…

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[a-gallant-pen]

Thing 4- Keeping Up

While I browse RSS Feeds sometimes on my laptop, I hadn’t really branched into using them on my phone.  This was partly because I was nervous they would prove to be as big of a time suck as Tumblr is for me, but also because I have my favorite websites and don’t often browse beyond them. 

While I find both Feedly and Bloglovin’ to be intriguing, I ultimately decided that Flipboard would probably be the most useful to me at the moment and downloaded it.  I’m happy to say that I found a new go-to app and should have been using these ages ago!

UPDATE:  See bottom of full post for a Flipboard warning!

Flipboard is a handy application that provides you a feed of articles based off of your compiled interests.  The application was extremely user friendly and starts you off right away with selecting your interests from a vast aggregate of tags and then sets you browsing.  Within minutes, I’d learned that there is a way to pre-register for some airport security lines at US airports to cut down on your wait time and get you through to your flight more efficiently: a result that popped up due to my interest in travel.  I had no idea!

Overall, this turned out to be a great app offering many revelations pertinent to the things I love.  Flipboard allows me to intermingle fun, interest-related articles as well as serious news articles, social justice, and information about technological advances.  Though I use Tumblr, the amount of world and US news I can get through my Tumblr feed is always hit or miss.  Flipboard provides a better balance through the ability to select various news-related fields, rather than simply following another Tumblr-user and hoping they’re keeping up with world events.

The only downsides for Flipboard were that fairly often I’d be browsing an article or my feed, and I’d have to wade through ads, which could be a bit annoying.  Granted, most of them had to do with my interests, but it was a kind of sneaky way to try and pander to the user.  The site also sometimes looped the same articles, which was a bit odd since I selected quite a few topics of interest to begin with.

Even with these minor annoyances though, I would still say Flipboard is an app I’ll definitely be using to ‘keep up’ with the world!

UPDATE: 1.30

FLIPBOARD WARNING!

I’ve had Flipboard on my phone for a while now and I eventually decided to uninstall the application.  Flipboard would constantly pester me with multiple ‘Flipboard updates’ throughout the day that would register as an important notification. This often tricked me into thinking someone had e-mailed or texted. I prefer my applications to allow me to wait if I want to check articles, etc, rather than constantly messaging me to say, “There’s some new, irrelevant article on Flipboard! Hey! Hey! Pay attention to me!”

The warning element of this comes in when I say that, lo and behold, I was surprised to discover that, at least on my Samsung Galaxy Note Android phone, there is no way to uninstall Flipboard once you’ve downloaded it.  You can go into your app manager via Google Play and ‘uninstall’ update capabilities for it, but the application continues to register on all of your icons and lists.  After doing this, you can go into your ‘display app’ option and hit ‘disable’ which essentially removes it from your app menu, but still leaves the program on your phone, simply inactive.  Apparently this has something to do with the way Flipboard incorporates their data into your phone.  I wouldn’t have downloaded if I’d known!  I’m not sure about the way Flipboard functions with non Samsung Galaxy devices, so others may be safe.

[hrosenberg72-blog]

For thing 4 I downloaded Pinterest and created an account. I pinned a few things and created a couple of boards. I enjoyed reading the inspirational quotes and will continue to use this app in the future 😊

[glaciallibrarian]

Thing 4

Ah, this Thing makes me grieve Google Reader. I haven't found a good replacement, so my blog reading has tanked. I tend to find content now using Twitter or my top secret personal Tumblr. I gave Feedly a try when Google Reader first disappeared, but it was hard to mark things read. I tried Flipboard and found it reminiscent of Pinterest-- effectively you're creating boards of content. My account confirmation included tips that aren't mobile device friendly, like adding content to your magazines through your browser. I wouldn't use it outside of this trial.

[rebeccafasulo]

Thing 4: GoodReads & Book Stuff

I joined GoodReads and have been rating books like mad.  I like this and can see playing with it more. It sure looks like the more information that you feed into it the better it becomes.  I can see recommending this to people at the library to keep track of their books read and to get recommendations.  I would only do that with computer savvy folks though...and I have a couple in mind.

I signed up for Net Galley and LibraryReads awhile ago and like getting the emails to see what's coming out.  I haven't actually gotten any of the titles to read...too many books, not enough time.

I'm finding that two weeks just isn't enough time to really feel comfortable with any of this.  I'm sure that when we are all through I'll look back and pick out a couple of things that I think will be most useful for me and that I want to keep up with and end up spending more time with those.  I'm glad I'm being exposed to the rest, but it is a bit overwhelming.

[nomenjustchinesefood]

Things that make me smile - Thing #4

one of my best friends finally getting to kiss a boy she really likes