Tweetin' marvellous RSS feeds, not so enamoured with Pushnote...

Actually the title is slightly misleading.

I have already expressed my undying love for Twitter and indeed use it every day. Incredibly useful, informative if not slightly distracting, it's actually how I start and end the majority of my days. I especially love the lists feature (it's the anal classifying freak in me).

RSS feeds similarly are a regular and convenient feature of my life, greeting me every morning from my iGoogle page. Both of these tools I was introduced to by 23 Things last year and I couldn't possibly do without.

Pushnote however... Errr... I don't see the attraction or point of it. Sorry! It sort of duplicates twitter and RSS feeds without the fun. If any users of Pushnote can convince me otherwise I would happily be converted, but for now, not impressed. Saying that I have signed up, and will probably have a stab at trying to enjoy it over the course of these Things...

Things 2, 3 & 4!

So now that I've started blogging I can't seem to stop! The Google Reader is almost as fun as customising my iGoogle account and definitely easier than blogging. I've only added a couple of my regular blog reads to it and some new randoms that were suggested to me, but I can completely see the appeal already. Having my favourite reads neatly organised in a folder named "blogs" in my bookmarks doesn't really mean that I'll ever actually get around to reading them. So using Google Reader does at least mean that I get the updates continuously and in a nicely presented format, a lovely way to waste a rainy lunch break! Again, I can completely see the appeal from the students perspective obviously especially in conjunction with their iGoogle accounts. I'm beginning to feel less scared of the term "digital dashboard" as we speak!

OK so here is a screencast of my iGoogle account (not that exciting and it will be expanded when I can think of more gadgets I'd like to add)





and my Google Reader home page...





I think I'll leave it for the night and try out some tagging, look at other library related blogs and tidy up my own blog in another session!