Category: Web (Page 4 of 4)

I love Google Reader. It lets me read all my fave blogs all in one place. Quite often I still click to go to the original site to see somethings, but it’s a great catch all. I tried it when it first came out. It was okay but a bit slow. I left it for Newshutch, but I’ve been back now for a few months after they performed an overhaul for it.

But I usually have much more there to read than I think I have time for. But I was able today to get it all down to 3 posts to read and comment on later. That’s three out of a few hundred. Yes, I rapidly skimmed a lot of it. And some I just clicked to “mark all as read” because I knew that there was some fluff I didn’t need.

But the beast has been beaten down…until tomorrow.

Hmmm… Last week I tried to post a video from YouTube right here on the blog. That way you could just click on it and away you go. It seemed to work at first. But then on any Mozilla based browser it wouldn’t work. In fact, it royally jacked up all the formatting to where things were not in their proper place.

It took me a bit to realize it was the YouTube code that messed everything up. To the point where I’d uploaded almost all of the WordPress files again.

So does anyone know any easy solution to this?

Not really. But I can see how people can be. I remember when I first heard of it. And it seemed the new thing in college circles. But it was a closed circle. You had to have a college email address and mine had LONG since expired.

I did look at it a few times here and there after it expanded to the high school scene. Someone would log in and let me look over their shoulder. But I did the other social networking site. I got myself a MySpace. And I thought it was cooler. It had music and everything w/ it. And it seemed to have a lot of people involved with it.

But then someone told me that Facebook was open now. Wide open. And I signed up a couple of months ago. And I see how people could spend inordinate amounts of time on there. My previous assumptions of Facebook being more high school and MySpace being more college wasn’t true. Facebook seems to have tons of both. And more and more people adding every day. Even “old” guys like me.

But it is a great way to be able to keep up w/ people. And to connect with students in their world too.