Karen Anderson

I’ve never particularly been a gadget person but I have a son who is. He’s on his gap year at the moment, enjoying a 5 month’s ski trip, followed by 5 months in Africa (all self-funded). He’s been planning and saving for it since he was about 14, anyway as I was saying, he definititely is a gadget person, always has the latest “toy”, he has his GPS on his iPhone and has speakers and controls built into his ski jacket. For people like us gadgets are useful, fun though hardly life changing.

For those without the freedom of movement imagine how liberating this gadget could be.

Similarly this technology makes it possible for speech through thought alone.

_{Flickr photo  Kramchang / Mark Chang}

I love the new language that new technology brings. Do you know your widget from your blidget? They are small applications written by third parties that you can add to your blog. I’ve added a counter that tells me how many times the site has been visited and a vodpod widget that displays video’s I have stored in another website. There are literally thousands of widgets you can add to your blog. Widgetbox claim to be the worlds largest widget directory.

One of the features of widgetbox is that you can instantly turn your blog itself into a blog widget - blidget. You can see my blidget on the left column of this blog and if you click on get widget you could add it to your blog another way of keeping track of your favorite blogs.

For visual learners a videoclip from Learning Web 2.0