I saw this on Scott Hanselman's blog Computer Zen in the post titled Web 2.0 Explained in Video by Michael Wesch
Convergence of meat space and the virtual world. I already connect many real-word activities to the Internet - like bicycling. I love to upload my GPS tracks to MotionBased and analyze them online. I upload digital pictures to Flickr or my Picasa Web Albums. I have not yet - but plan to upload family videos to YouTube. I track my food intake on TheDailyPlate. I rent movies through NetFlix. I chronicle my life (sort of haphazardly) and spew my opinions in this here blog.
Wikipedia is one of my main sources for information. IMDB is indispensable in my life. I would suffer a stroke if someone took away my google (especially GMail and Google Reader)!
It boggles my mind to think how much content we will have at our fingertips now. What about in in 5 years? 10 years? 50 years?
Seems like all of this linked, searchable, accessible information will spark a unprecedented age of invention and innovation.
Or SkyNet (created using Numenta technology) will take over and destroy all humankind.
Yeah. Could go either way.
I have finally decided to use Feedburner.
Here are a few reasons. Mostly self-serving.
- Subscription statistics - FeedBurner provides a ton of of free statistics, including number of subscribers, number of requests.
- If I ever want to leave GeeksWithBlogs and host my own blog FeedBurner will make it easier - I will be able to change the feed link with FeedBurner and boom - we are done.
- If #2 becomes reality than much of the bandwidth (yeah - from all 5 of you that read my blog!) will be offloaded to FeedBurner.
- FeedBurner has a few neat tools like adding "Digg This" links to the bottom of my posts automatically.
Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be a way to automatically redirect this feed to the new FeedBurner link... So I guess I just have to ask nicely.
Please subscribe to my new feed at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/SteveBargelt
Unfortunately I don't plan on upgrading my brain so you'll still get the same crappy content as before.
Brandon and I completed the 2007 Chilly Hilly. It hurt. It was cold. The ferry rides sucked. Here is the pertinent information
Moving Time (h:m:s)
2:49:27
Distance (mi )
32.72
Moving Speed (mph)
11.6 avg.
58.0 max.
BTW - I don't think the 58MPH max is correct but I'm too tired to figure out the problem
Elevation Gain (ft)
+2,571 / -2,618
Temperature (°F)
44.2°F avg. (& RAINING)
46.4°F high
Wind Speed ( mph)
SE 4.3 avg.
SE 8.1 max.
I know people use "LOL" when they didn't really laugh out loud (admit it. You know who you are!). Well I just laughed out loud (really) while reading the following:
Why has this rubbish aspirational ornament only got one mouse button?" Losing that second mouse button feels like losing a limb. If the ads were really honest, Webb would be standing there with one arm, struggling to open a packet of peanuts while Mitchell effortlessly tore his apart with both hands.
via:
I hate Macs by Charlie Brooker