Too many projects, too little time
Apparently I am not using the right programming language. If I wrote in .NET, I might be able to hang out with these developers, having a much better time than I am recompiling and uploading DLLs in between hunting for Hello Kitty collectibles and watching The Real World. Maybe the grass IS greener on the other side?
I added a gallery of the last 10 images so everyone can see what you submissions.
If you live in Portland you’ve probably heard already: Greg Oden, the Blazers’ #1 draft pick this year, just got sidelined for the entire upcoming season due to knee injury.
There’s lots of “I told you so!”s going around right now, but poor Greg Oden hasn’t said much about it.
Well here’s your chance to give Oden a voice: check out OdenRant. You can also let Kevin Durant chime in.
Thanks to Jason for busting out a great Photoshop job, and Instrument for hosting the site.
This subject has been beaten to death, but I’ve only recently been the victim of RSS overload. I often get overwhelmed by the amount of stuff I have unread in Google Reader, enough that sometimes I’m afraid to open it. Eventually I just say forget it and mark everything as read. While I’d like to read everything, I just don’t have time. Some days I can sit for an hour and read, and even then I don’t make a dent.
I partly blame some sites that feel the need to post 10+ items per day, even on the weekends. It could also do with the fact that I am subscribing to more feeds than I should.
How do you deal with keeping your unread RSS items in check?
If for some reason you are actually reading this blog and haven’t heard of Twitter, then I don’t know what to tell you besides, go and read the Wikipedia Entry. For the rest of us, you know what Twitter is, and you may or may not know this new form of communication is a subset of blogging called microblogging (this is news to me as of a few weeks ago).
I started a Twitter account a few weeks ago as well, after looking down my nose at it for quite a while. Will I continue to use it? I’m still on the fence about it.
One reason I like Twitter is a lot of the people I follow actually tweet about interesting sites they’ve come across, something cool they are working on, or news that’s usually relevant. That in and of itself makes me want to continue using it, and seek out interesting people to follow. But sometimes good information is intermixed with mundane things I really couldn’t care less about…like:
Unless you had to battle ninjas on your way to work, I don’t really care. And yeah, sucks your Internet is slow and you can’t get to that site. But that’s the nature of microblogging. While some people might enjoy that level of detail, others (including myself) don’t find it particularly interesting.
The value of microblogging to me is not necessarily in knowing your friend’s initimate thoughts right that moment, but to broadcast ideas (read: marketing) to a large audience. A popular figure (or their marketing firm) can open a Twitter account and communicate almost instantaneously with their target audience. Bloggers can tweet about their new post and it reaches readers even before it hits their RSS apps. Google picks up Twitter links almost instantaneously (I’ve seen spiders visit a place on my site I’ve only posted on Twitter…in less than an hour after I posted it).
The future of microblogging? It will go the way most fads on the Internet go: early adoption by geeks, traditional marketers exploit it, SEOs exploit it, and eventually people will migrate to the next new thing that isn’t so mainstream. Rinse and repeat.