Relevant Exploration Through Google Reader
This post is an add-on to the previous post Don't Slouch At The Dinner Table. I'm posting an updating because one of the features that I quickly glossed over has been upgraded, and is starting to be quite useful. I'm referring to the Like feature, and in this post I'll tell you how it has been upgraded to be quite a useful tool.
Navigate Your Brain
Mind Mapping is something that I've recently gotten into, and I've found it to be hugely useful in all of the projects that I'm involved in. A Mind Map is a bit like a flowchart that has all categorizations of importance stripped out of it; it's very useful for quickly getting down all of the ideas or tasks surrounding a particular project or topic.
Stumbling Down The Information Superhighway
This post is far from timely, so you've likely already heard about and use StumbleUpon. If you haven't: I'm about to ruin your life.
Names And Places
You need two things in order to start running your own website: A domain name, and a web host. The domain name will allow people to type in something ideally short and catchy, like PeopleOfWalmart.com, and be directed to your website. The web host will store your entire site on their server, so that you don't have to leave a loud computer on every second of the day (not to mention pay for the bandwidth required to display your site to all of your visitors).
Don’t Slouch At The Dinner Table
Google Reader has Like and Share features built in that let me do more than simply read posts. The Like and Share features allow me to tell others about interesting things I find on the internet. I use these two features quite a bit...
Contemplate Consuming The Internet
Don't waste time revisiting websites over & over - have them delivered to you! Subscribe to a site's RSS feed (like mine), so you don't have to travel all over the internet to stay up to speed. Instead of going from website to website reading them individually, you'll have the updates delivered to you in a single easy to manage location.
How To Use Neat Stuff
There is all sorts of neat stuff out there - Blogs, RSS Feeds, Facebook, Twitter, Digg/StumbleUpon/Reddit, Flickr/Picasa, Last.fm, YouTube (and that's just the popular stuff!) - but a lot of people aren't really sure how useful it all is, or how it all fits together.
I'll have heaps of posts here as time goes by where I'll quickly explain some helpful terms, and give tips on how to make the most of your experience with each service. These posts will all be tossed into the Thoughts category, and I'll also thoroughly tag them to help with searching later on down the line.
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- I could barely squeak in the run around Whiting Reservoir today! #WesternMA http://twitpic.com/2mjzkm
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