27
Jan
2011
Oversaturated Forums
Online forums are a thing of the past for most people now. There’s a few slow ones I still hang around once every month or so but I don’t keep up on any forums like I used to.
But my problem with trying to keep up with forums these days is that sometimes they are incredibly fast paced. A topic can balloon into several pages in less than an hour and then be basically done. Or go onto several hundred pages in weeks which you can never catch up on.
So you have basically two options: mark all as read every once in a while, or start to ignore the forums. I started with the first and then moved on to the second.
Now my addiction is RSS and twitter, both of which I can more easily control the flow of. Want more? Add a follower or a feed. Want less? Drop a few. I only wish there was a way to not have duplicate RSS items about the same news story from separate sources. I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen an Apple story reported on by 10 different feeds with no new information after the first.
3
Jan
2011
Ars Technica is Awesome
A couple months ago I was looking into subscribing to Ars Technica. So I went over to their subscriptions page to try and convince myself it was worth $50 for the next year.
The Wired magazine was useless because I’m Canadian.
The coupons are kind of nice, but the only one I would use is ThinkGeek and I buy from them maybe once a year.
The full RSS feeds and nice layout are neat as well.
But I didn’t think any of this was worth $50.
I did end up subscribing though. Because Ars Technica is awesome. I love the articles. I love the detail of the articles and I love the fact that they do some awesome features on random things. And that is worth $50 to support something like that.
26
Aug
2009
Star Wars: The Old Republic – First Gameplay Videos
This came out about 5 days ago but it was nowhere to be found on my RSS feeds: http://media.pc.ign.com/media/816/816935/vids_1.html
Looks wonderful, I can’t wait until this comes out. Finally an MMO where taking on more than one NPC is normal and won’t get your ass handed to you.
27
Mar
2008
RSS Feeds
RSS Feeds are a way to check frequently updating sources of information on the internet. You need an application, on your computer or web based, to read these however. It will automatically get the updated file (usually xml) every once in a while and usually highlight new things and try to make it as user friendly as possible.
For those of us really into the whole internet thing, we need our RSS feeds so we can get our information as fast as possible. You should have this blag on your RSS feed already! *shakes fist*
Let’s take a look at two big web based feed readers: Netvibes and Google Reader.
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