#8 and #9 Del.icio.us and Technorati

click click click , scroll, new window, back, forward, click, tab alt, new window, tab tab, click loooooooooad ...wait...check.....still waiting. click scroll click, check- stiiiiiiiilllll loooooading new window copy tab paste save click...click click click! MS_DOS??? what?? tab click,exit, think of appealing, easy to remember password.....hmmm ok, weird dialogue box, close, weird dialogue box, close,weird dialogue box, close, voices?-tab, watch vid -huh? click tab click tab copy paste save review.(sigh).....

Okay tags are a good idea, and delicious is a good idea too (apart from twee name and silly full stops) but I draw the line at technorati. I refuse to sink into the abyss of trawling blogs all day long until I become a mad, housebound troll with long fingernails and transparent skin, living with 37 cats.

Technorati Profile

#7 Finding feeds

Well after #6 and adding a couple of rss feeds from sites I was interested in I find I have little desire to go to sites that can find 1000s more for me. Went to feedster - under construction, went to topix - no good, lots of junky results. Google blog search seemed to work well but given I've somewhat lost interest in reading my own blog I can't see myself spending a lot of time reading anyone else's, let alone regularly harvesting the bounty that Google blog search offers. I think I am more likely to find a useful feed or blog by visiting a good website with high quality content. Everyone can write but not everyone is a writer. There are a lot of dull blogs out there. This is probably one of them.

#6 Make life "really cluttered" with RSS & a newsread...

I can see how RSS "saves time" by collecting info for you instead of you having to go around looking for it but then it takes it all back again if you actually intend to read it all. It's a bit like going to stocktaking sales where you go and buy piles of stuff you don't really need because it's discounted. I was feeling a bit uninspired at the time so I just said, Oh yeah, to a 'bundle' of feeds when I signed on to google reader and then poof! there were dozens of articles I couldn't be bothered scrolling through. Having said that I do think it is a good idea but you have to be quite selective if you are time poor and I assume that is why one uses RSS in the first place.