Digital Literacies

So yeah. Really like the way Blogger has all these new gadgets.In particular the whizzy Google fim things. Look at my sidebar and see those four frames – they are videos about web 2.0. To put them on there – I just went to my blogger template, selected ‘New page Element’ and chose the Google video option. I wrote ‘web 2.0′ into the search engine and got four videos selected for me. And Bob’s your uncle. How cool is that? (v. cool).
so to speak.

And now for something completely different …..these are the sugardudes. Lovely little fellows. (more here.)

Tropical
Originally uploaded by Trois Têtes (TT)

Went to Peace in the Park on Saturday. Some interesting stuff to photograph and saw a wonderful band Just Potatoes. The lead singer had the most beautiful rich Blues voice but could also belt out Waits’ Chocolate Jesus, giving a momentous performance.

(This is the singer from Just Potatoes.)

I found out about the event in several ways – all of which were to do with my ‘life online’ Firstly I took a photo last week of a a performer advertising the event – but only found out about the event after I took the shot for my Flickr stream (not yet uploaded); secondly I heard about the event on a discussion thread on Flickr; thirdly I heard about it via a contact on Ian Jones came up to me and said ‘Hi you’re DrJoolz aren’t you? I recognise you from Flickr …

So I went to an event prompted by online stuff… and when I was there I did stuff just so I could enhance my online activities… life online and off line have blurred boundaries …. and all this stuff about DrJoolz… Am I DrJoolz?? There is this thing about a textual self that I present … am I becoming it? (Or is it vice versa)

Life Online, huh? Blending Identities.

(Thanks to TT for the images.)