On Visualcomplexity the work of Trina Brady at http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm?id=480&index=480&domain=

was found

she states

"I Wish was inspired as I considered the balance between work and play in our lives. I wonder if we have become a nation of people who are slaves to the very technology that was meant to ease workloads rather than increase responsibilities and prolong work hours.

Visualcomplexity can create visual simplicity out of the complex:

Examples:

subway maps for New York, an accurate computer model of the brain, clever music -

http://musicovery.com/index2.php?ct=zz

Being able to place lots of applications on one page was great.

I copied the image to my files but was unable to upload to

this blog - Had to scan it.

Rollyo

http://rollyo.com/explore.html?rollterm=nzimage

Would prefer to use Matapihi if I wanted to search through many databases to find images of New Zealand. Rollyo did not search databases. All the extra sites on the screen were annoying and difficult to delete..

Although Library thing is a wonderful marketing tool for Amazon (free reviews, advertising). The idea of having a virtual library appeals. This tiny selection has authors only - clicking on the author gives a portrait and a summary of their work.

Image Generators

c/- Internet

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/frame.php

SANDBOX

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--One of my favourite paintings by someone special - Nelson

Wikipedia is knowledgeable and useful even though it is randomly edited, not considered authoritative and unable to be cited for essays. The articles seem to have developed structure in recent years that allows for easy reference.

Wikis . Some were very well organised for example

http://classroomgoogleearth.wikispaces.com/

Eighteen Interesting Ways and Tips to use GE in the classroom - Google Docs #18 Travel around the world with books

Some Wikis found have been abandoned and need adoption. So the success of a wiki depends on nurturing, enthusiasm and participants and lots of spare moments in time.

However an overdose of virtuality was not providing a collected sound for me. And with relief I am stepping back into reality.