Blogging about Social Bookmarking

Del.icio.us changed it's primary web presence to delicious.com so I totally stopped going. Del.icio.us is great if your friends use it and if you want to collaborate about something. Say you have a weekly coffee group and you want to communicate about possible topics or relevant news delicious is the best tool I've seen to to allow for such collaboration.

Like other social tools if your friends aren't on it then it's just not useful. This is web 2.0 in a nutshell. I'm available on del.icio.us here: http://delicious.com/kodemage

Another social bookmarking site is Stumbleupon, and it is one of the greatest applications/sites/communities ever. I first found it looking through the add-ons for the Firefox browser back when it was in 1.0 status. The idea is great, you tell the service what kind of things you're interested in and you make some friends and you hit the stumble button. It then serves you a random page which you can mark up or down and it learns from your choices and groups you together with other users with similar preference and similar likes and dislikes and serves you more pages each time you hit the stumble button. Of course it keeps a list of every page it's ever served you and you can go back and look up pages you want to see again. Aside from reddit and digg it's the best way to find new and interesting interwebs content.

You cna find my stumbles on facebook or at stumbleupon.

Regards,
-Benjamin

Blogging about Flickr

Kodette on a Bench
Originally uploaded by bfklahn

Flickr isn't the only photo sharing site in the world so I'm kinda disappointed that today's exercise is restricted to just flickr. I'd have loved to have the option do this exercise on deviant art or a similar site. Inorder to dispense with the requirements of the assignment here is a picture of my wow character sitting on a bench waiting for something interesting to happen.

Blogging about Podcasts

I listen to something like a dozen podcasts quasi-regularly so this assignment is another easy task for me. I use iTunes and put the podcasts on my iPod touch. I also listen to them right off of my computer while I'm doing other things, like playing WoW or browsing the web. If you want to keep up to date in the web 2.0 space I suggest you check out Leo Laport's podcast network over at twit.tv.

TWIT stands for This Week in Tech. The podcast is all about current events in the technology culture focused around California and specifically the area near San Fransisco where silicon valley is located. They'll have guests use skype to join them from all over the United States and the world.

I also like Net at Night which approaches the same subject but from less business or news related angle but more of a super user type angle, those of you that know me can probably figure out how this appeals to me. These couple podcasts and my RSS feeds are how I always know about new trends in technology and new webstes and gadgets before everyone else, who doesn't watch/read this stuff.

Regards,
-Benjamin