Blog reading is a waste of time. So is microblog reading and tumbleblog reading. Let’s tale a look at what I get from each sub-genre. Blogs I subscribe to about 100 blogs via Google Reader. On a good day, I read about one third of those and that still took 1+ hours of my time. [...]
The first time I joined Twitter I followed way too many people that I didn’t know and businesses that I wasn’t interested in. This led to me being overwhelmed with five to ten tweets every minute! This made Twitter too unidirectional for me. I couldn’t keep up nor did I care to keep up. In [...]
Facebook and Twitter have received a lot of online and offline press in the past two weeks. Twitter is blowing up. It’s more pervasive than a Top 20 pop song. Local news papers, churches, late-night TV, law firms, your neighbor, my imaginary friend – nearly everyone is twittering, whether they want to or not. The [...]
You can’t not use Facebook! You just can’t. The website is too usable, too huge, and too addicting. Whether, like me, you use it mainly as an elaborate address book or you are a power user who can’t live without knowing the latest about what’s on your friends’ walls, a Facebook presence is a must. [...]
I wish I had more time for everything because there are so many things that interest me. It’s inevitable that I discover and archive, drive by, dream up, and am assigned much more than I’ll ever be able to take in thoughtfully. And that is just one day. The next day it starts all over [...]
I use a micro blogging service called twitter. Twitter prompts you with the question, “What are you doing?” You then respond with a short message of 140 characters or less. (Same limit placed on text messages from your phone.) The typical use of twitter is much broader than this question. People take notes on it, [...]
Well, I’ve taken four one-hour exams in two days and they have been a blast. Not really. The first exam yesterday was Intro to Chinese Law, which would be better named Intro to Chaos. It asked us to briefly describe the Chinese legal system and then talk about a case that pertained to the Chinese [...]
Five sites I visit everyday are: 1. Google Homepage, which has my rss reader, calendar, and todo list on it. 2. Popurls.com, but only the top three columns, which are the top Digg stories, the top del.icio.us stories, and the top Reddit stories. 3. Oneword.com, which prompts you with a new word each day and [...]
The title seems to contradict itself right? Well, there was a time last year when I wanted to compile all of my personal communications into a general timeline. I’m talkin’ email, IMs, texts messages, pictures, blogs, bookmarks, etc. I didn’t do it. Partially because I don’t have the technical ability to do it, which is [...]
Twitter is the “funnest” website I’ve found in months. It is an update service based entirely on the question, “What are you doing right now?” You can send updates via IM, text message, and of course from the web. Oh, Twitter is what I use to update the Yugflog.com homepage and the content on the [...]