Have to start with the weather - has been quite decent over the last few days. Temperatures hovering around 15 to 20 degrees Celcius, and sun or near sun mostly. Getting time to dry out. There we go, I've confirmed my status of Plastic Paddy by talking about the weather. Now to things more of a cyber nature.
I find it amazing looking at the sheer volume of information out there that is available in the cyber library. I guess it is similar to walking into a research library on a University campus. Where to start? My normal day to day news is always CNN and Skynews or the BBC if they annoy me. For Euro specific news, where else but to EuroNews? For a quick browse around what has happened in Ireland, I head to the national broadcaster, RTE. For South Africa, I would head over to The Star, which used to be my daily hard copy read.
Then there is tech news. And here the confusion begins. At present I read a few, being Digg, naturally. Someone at Me.dium quite aptly likened social networks to the way in which a lot of people will look at restaurants - if there is no-one there, don't bother. If there is a queue outside the door, queue up - must be good. To some extent we use social networks in the same way. If we see a number of people buzzing around a site, pop around and see why. Me.dium works that way, StumbleUpon works that way, Digg and Del.icio.us work that way. I suppose the way Digg works is that lots of stuff is thrown into the pot, but as the pot churns and more people read things, that is read and gets lots of attention rises to the top. Sort of like the froth on a good beer!
But I digress, as always. Further Tech sites that I frequent would be TechMeme (recent addition courtesy of Mick on Tangle - thanks Mick!) and ComputerWorld, besides my normal CNet.
More than that is just not possible. I also listen to my podcasts on my daily trips to and from work, spending between 1.5 and 2 hours daily commuting, depending on the traffic, it gives me a great way of catching up. If you've missed the early blogs, I subscribe via my RSS feeds to FeedDemon and NewsGator to The World, TwiT, including Amber and Leo on Net@nite, Technology Podcasts and BBC daily news updates. I have a Sansa MP3 player and load it onto that. I have some music on the Sansa as well, but have never actually used it to listen to music.
Since the demise of Mother Jones Radio, I have not really found any decent sites with American news and politics on it. I REALLY miss Mother Jones Radio podcasts. If you know of any, send me an email or post a comment and share it.
And my colleague Simon reminded me of how good LifeHacker is for great technology tips! Simon is a ferocious reader of hte web. if it exists, Simon will find it. I might give him author status on the web and he can give you HIS take on life and technology! A site that I regularly read for updates on what is happening in Content and the Media industry is just that Total Content & Media. However, you have to subscribe (for free) to the daily newsletter, and there is just so much to read! However, to cut through this they have a blog, i-on-digital, which is updated as and when with just the essence of the site for those who want a flavour, but not the full gamut of news.
Lastly for today, just a quick one lala.com. A music site with a bit of a difference. They offer free streaming music (they pay a monthly fee per subscriber to the music industry) and then offer music for download fully iPod compatible. However, it is only sold by album, not per song. They also seem to offer a swap section where you can swap music. I haven't spent much time on it yet (corrupted the Registry file on the PC at home, so been spending 2 fruitless evenings trying to fix it, and eventually gave up - last night reinstalled windows and now going through the painful process of reinstalling everything because I did not do a?....... thats right - back-up....).
Will catch up a bit!
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