My PLE.

Man!! It has been one hell of a semester and the last couple of weeks had been hell for me. I can’t even get enough sleep with all the stuff that is going on.

Anyway… at first I was introduce to Google reader and I thought that it was an interesting tool to used for aggregating some blogs and other important things that I can use for school. However, I later found out that I’m not only subscribing to that one particular blog, but I was subscribing to the author’s ENTIRE BLOG, which I thought is a nuisance. I mean I can see that the author is blogging about PLE or Communities of Learning, however; I also realised that some of the blog that I was subscribing was also a personal blogs about many other stuff that is not related to what I was looking for. In a short, it was to general and redundant and I was not able to read all of them to update what I need and what I don’t need. Phew…

So, then I go and work on Netvibes and I realized that it was a handy tool and I can work with it. However, I later realized that the only way for me to use netvibes is for me to sign in to the service, which to me is a hassle! I don’t like having to sign in to what I am subscribing to read blogs about something. It is still a cool tool to use and have a very good user interface that people can tinker with, I find that most people in the class likes to use it.

So, here I am and from all those tools that I have mentioned, I found another tool that I found interesting that is Yahoo Pipes. I started reading what it is and what it is all about and I learn a few things here and there. I found out that it is an aggregator service, combined with mash up service, search engine and many many more. As for right now all I can say is that this is an interesting piece of tool to play with.