I have two recent web habits I've picked up. One makes perfect sense and totally feeds into my OCDism. The other...my ADDism?
I am in LOVE with
Google Reader. I've never really used RSS Feeds or anything like that before but I decided to try Google Reader so I could more easily access some of my favorite blogs from my phone. It's a Palm and I love it, but lets face it - Smartphones still can't handle the internet like iPhone can. So some blogs overwhelm it and take forever to load. I figured Google Reader would allow me to pick and choose which articles I could read and simplify them. Thankfully, it did that and better.
On my Palm, it just has links so you can view whatever articles you like. The graphics are limited to what's in the actual blog so loading times are quick. I love it. But I also keep the reader open in my browser all day too. I always keep Gmail open in my first tab, so I can access my inbox quickly. And now I keep Reader in my second tab, so I see when new articles pop up. Basically whenever they post something new, the reader tells me and I can go read it. AND I LOVE THAT. I have the tendency to obsessively check and recheck blogs when I run out of stuff to read so I love that it just tells me who has new articles and who doesn't. The only time I don't add a blog to my reader is when they only do a short version of the actual blog and you have to link to the blog. I like seeing all of the text and pictures right there.
My other web obsession as of late, for no apparent reason, is
Twitter. I originally started on it after I heard other people on the web talking about the twitter revolution. And once I saw what it was I was like...what? It's basically just updating your status (in 140 characters or less) from the web, SMS, IM...there are a billion different ways to "tweet" what's going on with you. So I was less than enamored with the entire thing, because let's face it, how self obsessed is it to think everyone wants to know everything you're doing? Well, here's what's fun about it. You can "follow" people so you see what they're doing, and they follow you to see what you're doing, and then you can reply back and forth and have conversations about your tweets. So I have a few friends that I tweet back and forth at but I'm wanting more. I'm trying to figure out how to find more people to follow but it's still such a novel concept to people I think that they're not sure about it. I wasn't either but once you get started tweeting back and forth, it's actually kind of addiciting. It's almost like blogging but in short form, so you have to be creative and concise. I like. Oh and if you like...
follow me!
