JamesX

If you’re like me, you read a lot of sites every day. Since RSS came about, and since it’s now easily managed in all the top browsers, I tend to find myself visiting even more. It’s at the point where it’s almost unmanageable again. But the last couple of weeks or so I’ve been using Google Reader to manage my RSS feeds. Although I get tired of letting Google in on everything I do, it seems like they are the only ones who are capable of doing things like this right. Anyway, if you use RSS a lot, I suggest you drop by Google Reader and have a play. You might just like it. :)

Oh and while I’m here, I’ve been sharing some of the more useful items in my own feed. You can take a look by subscribing to this link.

You know pretty much everyone is on the internet nowadays - you are reading this page after all! But it’s grown into such a huge mass of useless information that just finding the people out there that you know from the millions of others is quite a daunting task. But there are a few ways and one by one people seem to twist me into signing up for all these sites so to promote healthier networking, I’m going to shamelessly plug them all here in the hope that those who aren’t members can sign up and find me!

Of course everyone knows the old timers like schoolfriends.com.au, after all, it’s been around for years. And most people have heard of, or are likely members of, MySpace.com. But I bet most of you haven’t used Facebook.com before. The underlying principle behind all these sites is to be able to find your friends and network with them so that as they move on in their lives, you can keep track of them. A novel concept, and one I didn’t really believe in until recently when I managed to discover people I haven’t seen since school and have now arranged to catch up with. The possibilities are really quite astounding.

Of course you have to get over the “my personal information is out there on the web” phobia, but really most sites take this into account nowadays. After all, the Internet only knows what you give it (unless of course you spider every known document on every known media on the planet aka Google).

So get out there and find your long lost friends!