Alrightie, time to report on del.icio.us and Technorati. I got on del.icio.us and formed an account and started adding some websites with my little descriptive tags......the thing is I really don't look at very many websites. I mean other than email accounts and the NYTimes, my bookmarked pages don't range very far beyond our banks and the electrical company. This was evident when I started adding my websites to del.icio.us: I added Epicurious (of course, my favorite recipe website), my marathon plan and runner's log at the Runner's world website, and then the site for Performance today, the NPR program I like listening to at work. Ummmmmmm and I think that's about it for my day-to-day life. Am I abnormal??? Anyway, I don't think del.icio.us is really for people like me....when you only have 4 or 5 websites you look at regularly, there really is no need to catalog them for retrieval. And I could use delicious to look for other similarly-tagged sites, but honestly, unless I'm on a mission for something specific, I just don't see myself taking the time to surf around.
I feel the same way about Technorati. If I'm looking for something specific, then Technorati could be a great tool, but otherwise I'd just be using it to find the most popular favorited sites or to check out the best blogs on Iraq, and honestly that's just too much of an information overload for me. The current #1 site, for example, is Boing Boing: a directory of wonderful things which it appears is just a compilation of human interest stories and curiosities. It's all interesting...I just don't have the brain space and time to intake it all. I feel the same way about cable television actually....I start to cave every once in a while because I miss all my sports, but I know that if I had cable television I'd watch very interesting shows and I'm sure I'd be a better person for it, but I'd have a whole lot less time on my hands.
I wonder how normal I am. Do most people have loads of websites and blogs they monitor? Maybe I'm just a bear of very little brain. :)
1 comment:
No, I don't have loads of websites I use, so you didn't show me anything new with this post. But, epicurious really came through for me!!! Looking for a falafel recipe, found one, and then found a comment on how to bake them, not fry! 1 thing I learned today!
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