It's funny... Being away for about 9 days. I read only the bare minimum of e-mail, never browsed the web, used a search engine, or once looked at my RSS aggregator.
I think the first thing that I'll do Tuesday morning is fire up my aggregator and mark everything as read. I like the idea of starting with a clean slate.
But there's this nagging voice in the back of my head telling me that I'll miss something Really Important doing that. And then I realized that there's a good chance someone else (or a lot of people, really) has seen the Really Important Stuff (RIS) that I will not see.
So, I ask you all... What'd I miss?
Posted by jzawodn at July 04, 2005 08:26 PM
Yahoo! News Labs was launched on Thursday.
You would have seen in in the internal d-r mailing list.
Well, for starters I was told I had a job teaching a computer lab for children. Whew! I can't wait to see what kind of equipment we have to work with. This is going to be fun!
You picked a good time; it was a pretty quiet week. Yahoo did its maps API, gave away 10M ads to a stair-stepper/bicycle machine, had a nice Red Herring article published about it, and launched My Web 2.0 (but you knew that). Google did its maps API, beefed up its video search and did a video viewer, launched our personalized search, and put Google Earth out for people to play with for free. SEO Ian Turner was lost and then found again. All in all, another quiet week in the search industry. :)
Now wipe that RSS and start clean; when I go on vacation, I hope you're return the summarization favor. :)
just Gnomedex & the Vertical Leap vertical search engine conference, that's all... however, young man i expect you to have better attendance at our SDForum SEARCH SIG launching in September. harrumph.
I ended up grouping my feeds into different sections because of this - started off with "important" and "news" and now I have 11 of the darn things.
You missed a great new concept in Aggregators. To get all of the new blogs for a week, just mark them as read, and ask the readers of your blog for the news.
This takes blogs out of the hand of the 'mainstream' bloggers, and puts them in the hands of the people, where they belong. Darn straight!
Sorry, just saw some parallels there. I wonder if there's a business model?
There is something cathartic and refreshing about the 'mark all as read' command.
A few times this year I have been out sick, when I returned I did a similiar 'mark all as read'
Good you you.
You could also just delete your RSS reader and not worry about it. Stuff you need to know about will still make its way to you one way or another. Almost the same reasoning for tossing the cellphone. People who need to get a hold of you will find ways to do so without you having to have that annoyingly intrusive device in your pocket.
Tom Cruise proposed to Katie Holmes - or was that before you left? - but I am sure you really wanted to know!! (^:
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Dammit! How did I miss that? Tom Cruise proposed to Katie Holmes! Dammit! Dammit! Dammit! Now she's off the market to a 40something guy.
;)
j/k
Couldn't care less.
