Thing #8 is probably the most challenging out of the 23 Things. The blogroll exercise is a little tricky. It's amazing to think that you can use RSS technology and a newsreader to create and customize your very own "newspaper" that's delivered directly to your door. It's very time-consuming to just go out to the web and search for information. This technology saves some time after the initial investment of setting up the RSS feeds in the newsreader. There's also a lot of great search capabilities from within the service so that you don't always need to leave to find particular RSS feeds on your favorite sites. The subject aggregators are also very useful - they're already compiled subject-specific groups of feeds for you to subscribe to.
You can run the risk of information overload here. The amount of information out there can be overwhelming and I'm not a big fan of the blogline interface. I think it could be better organized and more streamlined - it's an incredibly busy interface.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Week 3, Thing #7
Well, it's been a few months since I last blogged as part of the 23 Things pilot group, but I thought I'd start-up again as part of the summer group participants and finally finish the program.
Blog about anything Technology-related... well, there's a big buzz right now with the upcoming release of the iPhone. The iPhone will have it all - a phone, a digital media player, internet access, etc. I'm not a big cell phone user or a Mac user myself, but it's hard not to hear the hype that's been going on in the media with the debut of the iPhone only a few days away.
I had a Treo for a few years, which had internet access, my Outlook email, phone, camera, etc., but no digital media player. I found it very difficult to "unplug" when I had my Treo and doubt if I will buy another Treo, Blackberry or iPhone any time soon. I don't know how healthy it is to always be connected. It's now hard to imagine the days before the instant communication via voicemail, answering machines, beepers, and such. In a way, it kind of takes the fun and anticipation out of simple pleasures like receiving a real letter...
Blog about anything Technology-related... well, there's a big buzz right now with the upcoming release of the iPhone. The iPhone will have it all - a phone, a digital media player, internet access, etc. I'm not a big cell phone user or a Mac user myself, but it's hard not to hear the hype that's been going on in the media with the debut of the iPhone only a few days away.
I had a Treo for a few years, which had internet access, my Outlook email, phone, camera, etc., but no digital media player. I found it very difficult to "unplug" when I had my Treo and doubt if I will buy another Treo, Blackberry or iPhone any time soon. I don't know how healthy it is to always be connected. It's now hard to imagine the days before the instant communication via voicemail, answering machines, beepers, and such. In a way, it kind of takes the fun and anticipation out of simple pleasures like receiving a real letter...
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