Jennifer - Jan 0, 2008
Yup, I agree - this is a good way of using links. :) That’s how I try to do it too - give the gist of the information and then link-back to the original content. It’s like giving people just a taste to whet their appetites. They can be satisfied with that nibble, or they can click to get more. It’s their choice.
I’ve seen a lot of people create link posts where there’s no comment just links and these are not effective. They’re not effective because they require the audience to click through and read the entire post to see what you thought was of interest. Instead I’m going to choose key paragraphs and link to the article. If you like the paragraph then simply click on the link and you’ll get the full article within it’s context.
Rox - Jan 5, 2008
Update - comments as homage to twitter I’ve been using it for an hour and no crashes with the most recent update. Carry on.
I was so going to love twhirl, but it is crashing on me in Leopard. What platform are you running it on?
OTOH, I like to colors of the interface. :-)
For those of you familiar with twitter there are a number of ways of keeping up with information and my current favourite is Twhirl. What I love about using Twhirl is how well it works. At first it feels clunky. You’ve got to download adobe air, then you’ve got to download twhirl and once this is done you’ve got to get used to the user interface. I went from twitterific to here and the transition was relatively painless.
I like the social media and I spend a lot of time with them. Occasionally i meet the people involved in real life and so the social media are no longer quite as interesting, although of course I still have fun with them. One of the things I’ve been thinking is the term social media girlfriend. What would require for a person to be a social media girlfriend? What does it require in the physical world?
This weekend I went on a social media binge. A social media binge is the moment when you forfeit sleep and the rest of reality for a few hours as part of the social media. For the purpose of this particular challenge I set myself two pass times. The first of these was to twitter and the second was to seesmic. If you read previous posts you’ll find out what twitter.
Today I went over to try the ASUS EEE and it’s too small. Its got the feel of a child’s toy more than anything else. I’m a touch typist, I don’t look at the keyboard when I’m typing, I appreciate feminine beauty as it walks past me in the computer room. I look around and the content keeps appearing on the screen. What this means is that getting used to such a small keyboard would take quite a bit of time.
Jennifer - Nov 5, 2007
Hmm yes. Very true. The TWiT family has done this to me many a Saturday, also!
Podcrastinating, when you put off doing something because you prefer listening to a podcast instead. It’s when you know that you should be doing a number of things but because you want to listen to conversations you listen to podcasts instead. Those guilty for taking a lot of my time would be From our own Foreign correspondent, quite a few of the TWIT podcasts and many more. It’s not that you’re not learning because you are.
Today I really wish i could vote for whether I like or hate the adverts that facebook are displaying in my news feed. The reason for this is simple. Whilst everyone else is complaining about how advertisers are destroying their privacy with targeted advertising I find the opposite is true. I’m really angry with Facebook advertising The Sun in my newsfeed, especially since there is no evidence of me enjoying tabloid crap anywhere on the worldwide web.