Archive for July, 2009

Hello, gang.

I’ve been sending sizable files to mi madre via yousendit.com, which gives me a gig of free file sharing. I can always reregister using one of my other email addresses and get another gb, but I was wondering if anyone knew another way to accomplish this task.

Fellow Cooperative Bloggians. It appears that our blog has become a bit stagnant. That doesn’t mean that we’ve left the wide world of the web. We’ve just found and embraced another means of sharing information . . . or at least of sharing news and blog articles.

Enter Google Reader.

Google Reader has been around for some time, and a subset of our fellow cobloggers have been consuming digital news via this RSS feed reader. It is great for many reasons. I’ll only highlight two reasons here:

It is quick. Once you’ve subscribed to the feeds that interest you, you’ll be able to peruse the news pretty fast . . . especially if you use keyboard shortcuts. It generally takes me about 5 minutes to make it through hundreds of headlines. I open the articles that I am interesting in in new tabs for further reading.

You can share. If you find something especially interesting, well-written, or relevant, you can share it so your friends can be enriched too. In general, we all have topics that we are more interested in than others. Sharing lets us cherry pick the best of our respective interests. For example, Himay shares music articles; Dillon shares design post; I share architecture pictures. Of course we all share more than just that, but you get the point.

If you are not using Google Reader, I encourage you to do so. And make sure you share with your fellow cobloggers.