Tuesday, June 24, 2003
This-or-That, June 24: Everybody’s Gone Surfin’!
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- Surf sites at random, or have a set list of regular reads?
I have a core set of bookmarks and RSS feeds that lead me madly off in all directions.
- Do you visit mostly blogs, or news or other sites?
It’s probably about 50-50 now. I primarily read blogs in my aggregator(s), so most of the time I’m looking at something in a web browser it’s a non-blog.
- Do you go online every day, or just a couple of days a week?
Do people ask drug addicts if they take days off? Let’s be serious here.:)
- Do you allow comments on your blog, or not?
Yes. I think it’s pretty much an essential part of a real weblog, though some disagree.
- Do you shop online at all, or at regular stores?
Both.
- Have you ever done online bill-paying/banking, or not?
I check my account activity online, to make sure no one’s robbing me blind.
- Which news site do you prefer… MSNBC.com or CNN.com? Or do you prefer some other one?
I’m not terribly enamoured of either, but I guess CNN sucks slightly less. RSS feeds from places like the NYT and the BBC are preferable.
- Live chat rooms, or message boards?
Gawd, I hate chat rooms. I don’t really like message boards much, either. You get involved in a thread and forget to check back on the progress, and the email notifications are a nasty hack. Call me old school, but I’m still a fan of a good mailing list.
- Instant messaging or e-mail?
Two different things. I like the asynchronous nature of email. IM replicates the interruption-based telephone culture, which I was never a big fan of, but at least you can turn off your IM client.
- Yes or no: have you ever met, or at least talked on the phone with, another blogger? If not, would you want to? Why or why not?
Well, many of the blogs I read are written by people who I knew in “real life” before weblogs ever happened. That said, there are folks I correspond with regularly, who I met via blogging, who I would probably enjoy sharing a beer or a plate of cheesy poofs with.
:: Dave Walker 10:05 (EST/EDT) [+]
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Desist from enumerating your fowl
prior to their emergence from the shell.