Man - I want to love Bloglines...I want to sit across from it and bat my eyes and flirt and ask if it comes here often and if it's a Libra and if it enjoys long walks on the beach...but that site is a little clunky to navigate (which is the website equivalent of having bad breath)...I see the potential...I'm imagining what our kids will look like and where we will spend our summers...but the site (for me, anyway) was a little confusing and dense. I managed to sign up to a few feeds...but I'm not exactly thrilled about it...I don't know what I needed...something sleek and sexy and streamlined, maybe...something that made the whole process (which should be a fun process) feel a little more like an explosion of puppies and candy and IKEA furniture.
I guess I'll have to keep tweaking and jerking and punching and prodding at it until I get a better feel for it - because I do see the potential.
Grokker was more fun - and I'm a sucker for those flow charts and graphs that you can pull up, Map View. It was an OCD guilty pleasure.
Didn't get a chance to try the Yahoo Pipes...hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to check that out.
Well - I think that this week marks the end of my being able to really help out my co-workers with Learn 2.0...which makes me ever-so-slightly sad. I felt a little like the cock-of-the-walk...just because I knew about Blogger (even though in the back of my head I kinda knew my time was numbered)
This past weekend I was in New York (Bronxville, mostly, near Sarah Lawrence College) but I had the chance to go into the city on Sunday and it was just...it ruled. Hung out in the East Village, then when up to Central Park....it was just...I don't know, really amazing. Only the second time I've ever been - funny to think of all those people running around all the time...and you're down here.
I don't know - I'm getting a little too misty and navel-gaze-y for a public work related blog.
Some places weren't so good...but maybe we weren't so good when we were in them.
2 comments:
Great post! Your experience with Bloglines is all that I ask - give it a try. You will know what works for you and you will keep those things close to you. Everything else will be discarded. Yahoo Pipes can do the same kind of things as Bloglines and maybe more attractive to you.
Mercutio, you have such a way with words! I love it.
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