Things I like about the internet

[coliningus]

Chrome - Google made a browser, and I like it better than Safari or Firefox. It is fantastic (though windows only).

"Things you woudn't know if we didn't blog incessantly" - My favorite blog. Some old guy spends all day on the internet, learning fascinating trivia and sharing it.

TED - I am sure most of you know TED, but I still love it

Comments

[thesuperalice]

Wow, I'm really enjoying TYWKIWDBI and Strange Maps. TYWKIWDBI is like the essence of the internet if you excluded porn, stupid arguments, and advertising--maybe? I'm not surprised you're the one to turn me on to it.

I don't spend too much time online just exploring nowadays--I try to streamline it to keeping in touch (though I often get distracted). That said, I'm currently in love with Twitter to a point that I never thought I would be. People "microblogging" the details of our days keeps me in touch with some friends on an everyday sort of level that I'd completely lose otherwise, being so far away from pretty much everyone and everything. (Catching up, even on a weekly basis, usually involves the big picture stuff, and I really miss getting to hear about someone baking cookies, enjoying a song, or getting scratched by their cat.)

Flickr is great, both for keeping people (mostly my parents) in touch with my own life, and for randomly searching the public collection of photos for any random thing that pops into my head

[coliningus]

Twitter? Really? I have to admit that I have not given it a fair try, but the concept is just not appealing to me. I think of it like Facebook with ADD. Eventually I will cave and join, but I think I am just too old to "get it".

[thesuperalice]

Twitter? Really?

That's what I thought when my brother got me to join. But now I think that Facebook is actually Twitter with ADD, constantly distracted by exhibiting all this random, useless shit to half the world, old high school acquaintances, and the neighbor's dog. Twitter's just this streamlined thing containing nothing but mini updates. I also like that I don't have as big an audience. Plus, it's easy to just slap a photo on any update--much easier than Facebook, I think--so you could be walking down the street and immediately post a comment and a photo of any interesting thing you see (cool murals, flying abortions, etc.), straight from your phone. The concept just works for me.

[coliningus]

Ok, I am now cjemmott on Twitter.