Week 3 - Belated

Yes, this just means that I will need to reflect on something to do with the programme again early next week.

I've actually gotten quite into a lot of things to do with this project. Thanks to Groucho Marx's Dog, I now have a Firefox Add-on for my Google Reader which I've found quite handy. When I'm at home I have three Firefox windows and over thirty tabs open on the same pages so I am not constantly having to revisit sites that I use often, so in that instance I can actually see in the tab title if there are unread items (or just click on the tab and glance at the page itself). But at work I find that Firefox can easily get too cluttered (as I am always having to open and close new items) so it's been quite useful to have a small, unobtrusive tool telling me that something awaits me via RSS...

Some other things that have intrigued me have been the more "social" items such as Twitter and Facebook. I have embarked on these on my own however, so I will need to create new ones at the appropriate time for work purposes. But it does interest me to think on how Murdoch could use these tools. I'm not certain at this point that I could see a decent use for Twitter, but as I have once again rushed ahead of myself, I will reserve judgment on that until the week we are actually meant to be looking at it.

Anyway, so I have subscribed to everyone's 23 Things blogs, LibrariesInteract.info and Flickr accounts (both Murdoch's and the 365libs Project), but my ICanHasCheezburger hasn't worked, so I think I may have to go back at some point and make sure I've subscribed to the right thing. I briefly subscribed to a couple of interesting things on the list that Kathryn provided, but was instantly overwhelmed at the number of new items that sprang up overnight, so I have removed those and kept it simple.

I think that would have to be my main advice to those out there who are finding it hard to keep up with their subscriptions: Just start off on the basic, even if it means that you aren't subscribed to the more interesting things. You won't like this technology if it stresses you out :-P