Monday, March 29, 2010
Delicious Debates
I have to be honest, Delicious is not a site that I use very often but when I do need to pin point cetain websites it's handy. The most common questions it helps me to answer are "Where can I find government forms?", "What are some good job websites I can search for postings?", "Where can I find information on tenant laws?", Citizenship questions, etc. Having these sites bookmarked and categorized makes for easy access to valid information. If you try to Google some of this information, you can end up sifting through a lot of information or following a whole bunch of links that leave a trail you can't be bothered to retrace or try to lead someone through. I'm sure there is a lot more infomation on Delicious that I'm missing but, as useful as the bookmarked pages can be, I don't find the host site to be very user friendly and it can be very difficult to explain the organization to a second party, especially one unfamiliar with the internet. The previous incarnation made more visual sense and was more user friendly in its word choice.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Virtual Voyeur
Welcome to my first blog!
I find blogging both intriguing and scary which is most likely because the contact I have had with blogs are those of an acquaintance who shares a little too much of her personal life. It is very intriguing to read the details of her various romantic mishaps and inner misery but at the same time it has an unsettling sense of voyerism and opportunity to sit back and judge without an empathetic emotional connection to that person. I think I might start a blog if I took an extended trip to a foreign country and family back home wanted to know what I was up to but other than that I would have to say I would be an ineffective blogger - I barely remember to sign on and check my e-mail and the only up-dates my facebook profile gets is from other people. However, I can now say that I know how to set up a basic blog if ever I should be asked - which is actually very likely after everyone figures out how to send a resume online. I am also curious about RSS feeds, I think that is something that could be very useful and Vista seems to come with the RSS feed on the desktop. For somebody like me who doesn't turn on the computer very often, it would be great to get all your updates at once instead of going 50 different places.
I find blogging both intriguing and scary which is most likely because the contact I have had with blogs are those of an acquaintance who shares a little too much of her personal life. It is very intriguing to read the details of her various romantic mishaps and inner misery but at the same time it has an unsettling sense of voyerism and opportunity to sit back and judge without an empathetic emotional connection to that person. I think I might start a blog if I took an extended trip to a foreign country and family back home wanted to know what I was up to but other than that I would have to say I would be an ineffective blogger - I barely remember to sign on and check my e-mail and the only up-dates my facebook profile gets is from other people. However, I can now say that I know how to set up a basic blog if ever I should be asked - which is actually very likely after everyone figures out how to send a resume online. I am also curious about RSS feeds, I think that is something that could be very useful and Vista seems to come with the RSS feed on the desktop. For somebody like me who doesn't turn on the computer very often, it would be great to get all your updates at once instead of going 50 different places.
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