Archive for 27 December, 2006
Blogging 2.0
I use bloglines to keep track of my favourite blogs. Its fab and user friendly, but I’ve found myself rationing how many blogs I subscribe to – keeping them down to just enough to fit on one screen. If I want to add a new one, something has to go. Is it just me? And I think I’m reading comments a lot less now that they’re an extra mouse click away…
If tools like bloglines, google reader and My Yahoo! start changing the way we read and subscribe to blogs and other RSS feeds, will the long tail start getting shorter?
On top of that, the way RSS readers display text means that bloggers are going to have to acquire the skills of a sub-editor to produce enticing headers and first paragraphs to drag their readers in. It’s a tough old world out there in the blogosphere…
Work in progress
Work hasn’t been much of a Creative Space recently because we’ve been going through a refurb and also budging up to make room for all the extra people that are joining us. I have however learnt a lot of important things over the last couple of months:
1. The piece of paper you want is always at the bottom of your plastic packing crate
2. Wherever you left your desk the night before, it will be somewhere entirely different the next morning
3. Office chairs can not only move position overnight, but change their height and incline too
4. Removals men do not feel the cold and will therefore leave external doors open all day while you sit there shivering in four layers of woolies
5. Your coat is not missing. Its just that the coat stand it was hanging off has been moved to other end of the building.
6. It is actually possible to continue to work while someone puts twenty desks together immediately behind you using an electric drill
