Thing 5: Sign up to Google Reader and subscribe to the RSS feed of the 23 Things blog. Thing 6: Find some more feeds to subscribe to. I honestly do not know how I would survive without RSS feeds. I must have been using them now for around 3 years and in my mind Google Reader is the only way to manage them. At present I have 204 subscriptions – at least half of those are for the blogs of the 23 Things participants, and yes I am reading them all. I’ve seen a lot of posts on the 23 [...]
February, 2010:
Things 3 & 4 – Blogs
Thing 3: Create your own 23 things blog and make your first post. Thing 4: Register your 23 Things blog and explore others. I have been blogging for a long time. I think I started my first blog in 2000 on the now obsolete site diary-x. For the first few years I flitted around different platforms with different usernames until I settled down with Digitalist and WordPress in January 2009. For me the key thing about having a blog is knowing what you’re going to write about. I struggled for a long time trying to write about both my social [...]
Things 1 & 2 – iGoogle
Thing 1: Set up your Google ID Thing 2: Customise your iGoogle page. Add at least 5 gadgets It’s week 3 of the 23 things programme and things are going swimmingly. We’ve got 112 participants at the last count which I think is amazing – that’s about 1/5 of the total workforce apparently. It’s not only the number of participants that is making the programme work, there’s also a buzz on the blogs of the participants and there really seems to be a community forming. Well enough of that, as I said before it’s week 3 and I’m behind already, [...]
