Catching up with Technology
Friday, May 30th, 2008So, since my sisters have been brave enough to venture into the world of blogging, and I was reminded today of this video, I thought I’d encourage my sisters (and other friends) to sign up for twitter if you haven’t already. You can follow me at twitter.com/jerekeys. So, if you need an explanation, this is Twitter “In Plain English.”
p.s. You can also use apps to link your twitter updates to facebook status updates, myspace updates and more.
I also see (from checking my stats) that my sisters are logging on to my website in the old, slow way of checking blogs. Luckily, Common Craft also has an instructional video on using RSS Readers “In Plain English.” I also use Google Reader and think it’s excellent (if you’re looking to “friend me” in gmail or google chat – tyreseus at gmail dot com)
Finally (for now), photo sharing. I use flickr (flickr.com/photos/tyreseus) and I’ve gone ahead and upgraded to the paid account. Trust me, it’s worth it, as this Common Craft “In Plain English” video explains…
Similar to Twitter, but a bit more integrated if Friendfeed, where you’ll find me at friendfeed.com/jerekeys. Sadly, there’s no Common Craft “In Plain English” video about Friendfeed yet, but it allows you the same microblogging function as Twitter, but you can also link to your google reader shared items, twitter tweets, flickr flicks, netflix picks, YouTube faves and more. I like this enough that I’ve scrapped the Flickr badge, google reader widget,
The biggest problem with Twitter is the fact that they have outages TOO often. They remove features like IM updating and then blame the users for the problems.
http://scobleizer.com/2008/05/30/twitter-blames-its-users/
I stopped using them a couple of weeks ago because EVERY time I tried, they were down. It’s not OUR fault they have so many users that they can’t handle it.
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I’m chalking it up to growing pains and hoping that the problems will get ironed out in the coming months.
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