Thing 31

In honor of my ignoring Twitter, I wrote a haiku:

Tweeting's not my style

Do you not understand this?

Twitter's not my thing.

Thing 30

I use RSS and would hesitate to winnow it down through the use of the tools suggested in this thing. If all I subscribe to would be things I want to read, why would I deliberately minimize what I get? Google Reader is my choice to manage RSS feeds to which I subscribe, and the way I've managed it is to remove those blogs or feeds that had either no action or ended up not being what I want to read.

I have faithfully read and kept current on all blogs and websites I've followed. They're the folks I enjoy reading about, their trials and travails, conquests and commitments. It's enough. Sometimes there's such a thing as information overload, and if I limit myself to these few folks, it's plenty for me!

I don't share a lot of bookmarks and don't care to tag them, and should I want to share a website with someone, I can't think of a more finicky way to do it than through Delicious. So if I'm happy with my RSS feeds, why would I want to sign up to follow Delicious? Is it the same thing, or different enough that I should check further? Hmm. Well, not today anyway.

Thing 29

Google manages to nail almost everything I use on a computer. Google News is one of my widgets (culled from other news sources, but it comes in through GNews), productivity-wise, I've used GMail and GCalendar for a couple of years, and I've recently blogged about the Desktop and Toolbar, which are part of my iGoogle setup (well, that's when I set them up).

Must say tho', Google Health, only 2 words for this: no way. I want nobody tracking what I'm looking for. It's way too Big Brotherish for my tastes!

Thing 28

I love iGoogle. Correction. I love iGoogle when my computer isn't busy. There are multiple widgets set up on my home desktop, and among these is my favorite: a clock! Trying to be a good steward of time, I keep my eye on this clock (it's a face clock, not the digital one on the bottom of the window's screen) in order to keep track of when I should be changing what I'm doing. The next favorite thing on here is a widget for weather. Although it's not always right, I can glance and see what weather my sister is having.

The photo roll isn't as enticing because instead of going only through my current personal pictures, it also includes those of blogs I follow. I don't want to see all those photos -- I want to see my favorites. If I were able to limit it to what pictures I wanted to see, I'd be much happier. The news snips ~ eh. They're not necessarily new. It's become like the newspaper has, old news, news I've already heard about, or so removed from what I care about that it's not really news then, is it?

Thing 27

Twitter. Another account (I have too many already). To answer the question"What am I doing?" I'm going to go under the premise that nobody cares, or if they did care, there'd be many other places and priorities to contact me through, so I'm not going to
a) create another account
b) worry about who might be missing me
c) worry about who I might be missing

I have one child who's on Twitter, supposedly to follow celebrities. She was disappointed to find out that whoever's Twittering or tweeting for said celebrity, is a fake.

Thing 26

I'd joined Ning as one of the first 23 things but didn't stay active. To complete this Thing I posted a picture of my cat to the Ning and tried posting the Ning badge to my blog, but somehow the code was corrupt or unevenly tagged. Since it's a matter of posting code which I've previously done, I won't try to figure out which code is unbalanced. Because it's another quasi-social networking site, if I were looking for someone in the field, I may look there, but I didn't join any groups or even pursue beginning one.



Sometimes sites are laid out compactly and manage to hide features from me. If a website or network's page changes significantly, I don't plan to invest enough time on them to make them readily updatable or find out where "that thing" went in order to update my information. If I focused on one website where activity was more my style, I'd make it more of a priority to find where "that thing" went to in order to keep it up to date.

Thing 25

While I understand the necessity of readability piece in a blog, when something is assignment-based, the practical application piece of 'readability' will be something I set aside until I need to personalize it. I try to know who my audience is and write things that may be of interest to them.

I must say that several of us have taken our Facebook accounts, Twitterized them (used our status like a Tweet), used mashups, photo manipulators, added links, videos, articles, and quizzes, many of which are in this Thing. We all seemed to recognize the "Twitterizing" of our FB status on the same day, and when we discussed it, we all agreed that it's a version of one-stop shopping. Dont'cha just love how we can verb things on the spot? ;-)