Thing II

So RSS stands for Really Simple Stupid? Rapid Sports Stories? Read Some Stuff? Oh it's something about Syndication. Ever wonder why people feel the need to be funny when they blog in their blogs? I do and I don't know why they do. If you're still reading this you have less to do right now than I did when I wrote this. Actually I have a lot I should be doing and this is just enabling the chronic procrastinator in me... thanks a lot Ai.

So I set up an RSS account with Google since I already have a Google account and I try to keep the amount of usernames I belong to at a minimum. Don't you just hate when your preferred username is taken? I mean, how many nickolasvincent's are there? Or when they make you add numbers? That really grinds my gears. Sorry, I'll try to focus here. I am looking forward to being able to click on that little RSS icon I see everywhere although I don't know how useful this will be for me.

This will be helpful for checking the blogs that I follow - a number that is growing. Aside from the blogs my usual web stops are always being updated; news, sports, the Onion and so on. I'll probably get click happy every time I see that icon and I will soon find out if RSS is Really Simply Stupid or Really Something Special. I'll address this in future blogs. Bloggity blog blog.

Thing I

When I began my education at Ai I knew I needed to take advantage of the numerous networking tools available on the web. I knew I could showcase my work through Flickr, MySpace and so on. I had even been so bold as to create accounts on some of them, only to never look at them again.

With graduation looming I have been wanting to get into this online existance that just missed my generation. When I was in college at the dawn of this millenium I considered myself technologically savvy and stayed plugged-in to happenings within this ethereal world. My favorite one being music downloads... man, I miss Napster... stupid Metallica. I left MN and became completely un-plugged for three years. When I came back it was all MySpace this and blog that. Now, three years after that I am blogging about blogging in my very own blog... blaaaah!

Steve's email about 16 things came at a very appropriate time. Now I have a structured way to get involved with all these "things" and find out if they will be useful to me or not. I am looking forward to doing this now that I have a little push and a little help. So here is Thing 1, my blog. I put the Site Meter counter on here so I'll know if you're out there. Leave a comment if you like. Tell me if I'm not funny or maybe you need directions away from here. See you next Thing.