I am evolving.
First I surfed the web via a collection of bookmarks. Going from site to site and using my brain to filter the content and determine if anything was new. Way too much information to process.
Then I discovered RSS Really Simple Syndication. This is it. What more could I need. Soon, Bloglines became my home page and I only saw content that was deemed worthy of the RSS feed.
Lately I've been hanging out on Facebook and Twitter so my view of the web is being filtered by the friends I keep. See any potential problems here? Bloglines is still my home page but I find myself glancing at it for a moment and then moving to FB and Twitter, which by the way, have moved to the number 1 and 2 positions on my bookmark toolbar.
Oh, I've flirted with iGoogle and still use it daily to determine my mood based on whether the Dow is red or green and some interesting links pop up in the CNET widget. Can they really use the letter "i" to start a product name without being sued by Apple? iGuess so, they are Google. I will stop now, I feel like I'm being channeled by Andy Rooney.
Are you evolving? What is your home page? Top bookmarks? Talk to me, the lines are open.
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I'd say I evolved as well. I started off reading blogs by remembering their urls. Once I started my own blog, I'd link to the ones I liked and then check them by visiting my blog first.
ReplyDeleteAfter a while I began emailing lists of links I liked to myself. Since I was a student and didn't own my own computer as an undergrad, I didn't really use bookmarks.
Now I use google reader to subscribe to rss (or atom, though I still don't know the difference) feeds. I used to use bloglines, but since I use gmail and Google Calendar it's easier to have just one login.
Oh, I should also add that I subscribe to searches. I love that feature. I don't have to read the entire paper or do scans everyday to find news that I like. Right now I subscribe to the google news searches for "League of Illinois Bicyclists," "interactive art," and "thrift store."
ReplyDeleteFor environmentally-related news, I subscribe to Treehugger and they usually cover anything I'd consider important. For planning-related news I check Planetizen, and they also cover anything I'd consider important in that arena.
I still have a ways to go with Twitter. I don't really know how to follow stuff that starts with the # sign. Oops!