How Do You Process All This Information?!
July 22, 2008 by Ryan
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I have 28 34 (and counting) blogs that I read through my Google Reader. I follow 100 +600 people on Twitter & Plurk (thanks to ProBlogger). I find more and more friends from childhood, high school, college, etc. on Facebook everyday. How do I process all this information!?
I’ve actually cut down the number of blogs that I read (I had some that would post 5-6 times a day)! My reading of ZenHabits has got me to try and simplify. But at the same time, I just added like 80 people to my Twitter/Plurk/Facebook! One good thing is that the additions are not as demanding as the blogs. Which reminds me! I have like 5-6 books that I want to read!
I guess it comes down to priority. What priority is all of this information for me to get through? How thoroughly do I want to digest each source? It’s pretty easy to “fill up on junk food” with all the social networking. Even some of the blogs are low-nutrition! I know that I should spend more time of the information that has the best return on investment (i.e. books, quality blog posts & family info streams). Being that I aspire to income generating blogging, I also need to invest time into developing contacts and relationships. So, while there is going to be a good deal of personally irrelevant info, I do plan on spending time with my “new” friends.
Anyone else dealing with this? How do you handle it?
This post is part of my Information Overload Series
- How Do You Process All This Information?!
- Waiting on Diamonds to Play with the Rough
IE7 Good, Firefox Better, Flock Best!?
November 20, 2007 by Ryan
Today, reading through my RSS feeds, I ran across this post about Firefox and a new browser called Flock. It caught my attention because I have been a big fan of Firefox. I seriously get annoyed with Internet Explorer. I hate how it screws with my websites and how it messes up transparency on png files!
I have been a longtime user of Firefox. I love the tabbed browsing. I love all the customization and extensions. But I have noticed with how many tabs I typically have, Firefox can get pretty heavy on the memory usage on my computers. At home on my laptop it’s less of a concern, but at work with my measly little memory it can lock things up pretty easily. That’s what caught my eye in the TechCrunch post.
I’d read about Flock before…well, more just skimmed over a post about it. It’s big thing is that it’s a “social browser.” It tries to integrate more of the social networks people use (blogs, flickr, del.icio.us, Twitter, etc., etc.) and do so more seamlessly into the browser. I decided to give it a shot, downloaded it and have been pulling in some of my accounts. In fact, I am writing this post from Flock!
Blogged with Flock
It’s Only a Matter of Time Now
November 1, 2007 by Ryan
A while back I wrote about making the move from PCs to Macs. Well, I was close then, but I’m decided now! There have been many contributing factors:
- Macs have always been beautiful as far as graphics go
- Everyone in design uses them
- Parallels (read my previous post)
- The iPhone
- Everyone says that once you go Mac you’ll never look back…even Mark Cuban!
The last straw is the new Mac OS Leopard. So many cool features, so well thought out. If you haven’t, watch Apple’s video about Leopard. It’s kinda long but worth it if you’re considering jumping the MS Titanic Vista.
I’m a PC…for Now
March 31, 2007 by Ryan
Hopefully, you’ve all seen the “I’m a Mac…and I’m a PC” commercials. They are one of the few things that will stop my DVR-commercial-skipping just so I can watch them and laugh. It has to be one of the best ad campaigns in the last few years.
As of right now, I am a PC. I have been a PC for so long that it’s hard to even think about switching. But there is a new program out called Parallels that is really making the idea of switching more feasible. Since Apple switched to Intel chips you’ve been able to install Windows on Macs, even to where BootCamp is coming standard on all Macs. But Parallels does something that is very appealing, that is that it allows you to open Windows documents in the Mac OS! No need to pull up a virtual machine, just click on the Windows file and it pulls up the Windows program. It also supports more 3d gaming that BootCamp and other programs.
So yes, I am a PC, but I wonder how long I can hold out.
