This Is News to Me!
I have been wanting a convenient place to track current news events that interest me.I am not really into gossip, politics, or minding other peoples business.
Rather, I find emerging patterns, trends, and science far more interesting.
Some things just catch my eye and my interest.
Beyond what I have said, I cannot really articulate the rules for what is interesting to me, so I will not bother trying.
This weblog is just sort of a richer form of bookmarking for me.
I have tried bookmarking things with my browser, and the problem is that no browsers provide a way to capture all of the metadata about each web page that I want to capture. Also, as I bookmark more things, the bookmarking menus in my web browser get slower. This frustrates me.
Social bookmarking sites, in other words, those on the web - suffer slightly less from that problem. However, they are slow, unreliable, and limited in capacity. This frustrates me too.
I have read about the upcoming Google Notebook (review) feature. It sounds closer to what I would like to be doing. However, it is just going into beta now.
I understand how blogs work. Blogs are fee. Lets of bookmarklets exist to save a little record of a blog entry or a news story into a weblog. For now, I think that will be fine for me.
I wish Google furnished Blogspot with a tagging feature for postings but they do not. This is one of my biggest sources of frustration about blogspot.com - no tagging. I have messed around with using Technrati tags but they are inconvenient, and an imperfect substitute.
However, I am an optimist. I think this latter problem will get solved by someone someday kind of soon.
If not, well - whatever.
This is just a bunch of scraps of information about some apparently random things going on. My intuition might tell me they are significant. But that has yet to be proven. I am just keeping track here, nothing more.
This is not really a journal of my thoughts or doings. Instead, it is a log of events.
posted by John Collins @ 2:54 PM
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