RSS : a good stuff to use

According to the instruction, I have successfully set up an acount on Bloglines. I chose some websites from the Recommendations to have a list of my "Feeds". It works well. I get on the Internet, then Bloglines, and all the websites I'd like to have a view are there! The functions of Add, Edit and Options are easy and clear. So next step, I think I need to do is to set Bloglines as a default main webpage, then move all websites from "My favorites" to Bloglines.

Google Universe : my favorite products

There are so so many products in Google Universe.
I could only say my favorite ones are: Google Maps, Google Images, Gmail, and Google Web Search since I use them often and they are very much helpful.
Google Blogs and Google YouTube are very popular. So I know I am a bit behind the wave.
Google Directory, Google Books and Google Scholar are pretty useful to people doing specific research. I think I should get used and be familiar with them.
As about other products, I could not say I dislike them, I am just not familiar with them.

Google Universe: Google Translate

In Google Universe there is one product called Google Translate, which can translate the webpages between 52 languages. It is a very interesting and useful product. If a customer who reads little English want to visit Calgary Public Library's website, it will be very helpful the customer uses Google Translate to translate the webpage to one's native language, and the webpage can be switched between "Translation" and "Original".

Also there are some problems of translation. Since the translation is processed by the computer not by person translator, quite many grammar mistakes exist. Words chosen to match the original texts are sometime very awckward as well.

But still, Google Translate is such an interesting product, it should add credits to Google Universe.

Social Networking: Facebook

I feel that Facebook is sort of the combination of Blogs and Forums. I can put everything on, journals, pictures, articles, ..., whatever I would like to share with other people. People can write back notes and comments to me. Even there should be certain security, I heard stories like that Net-buddy but real-life-stranger found out one's real address through all the details leaked in one's Facebook and payed a surprise house call, and stayed for quite many days!! I have no experience with Facebook, but have used Myspace to creat an album for my children so that Grandparents can see all the pictures without receiving and downloading through Email or MSN.
So I think it just works for everyone by different way.

Wikipedia : how easy or difficult was it to find articles needed editing?

It is not easy to find errors in the articles. This is not because there is no error but from people's habit. When we look up a dictionary or read a book, we are used to trust the information in the dictionary or book. So it is easy for people to regard the Wikipedia as a very reliable resource.

I have used Wikipedia quite often. When I do a search by Google, usually I would pick the link of Wikipedia. See, I trust it. But I do found something that could be edited. Like the article I have just read, "Records of the Grand Historian", I think there are some mistakes on grammar, such as the writer used "is" when it should be "was".

For my understanding, it is not important to really find some errors in Wiki articles for this assignment, but to know it by heart that Wikipedia is editable and creatable by anyone, even like you and me!