Two tech savvy people have told me that I need to do something with my Gchat status messages, either subscribe to Twitter (which I find painfully complicated and am not sure would really solve the how to keep them solution) or just blog more often so that they might be included in the vast sea of my random thoughts.
A third tech savvy person tried to teach me how to get RSS feeds (not HAVE one–I know my blog HAS one, because like three of you get that and tell me so, and I remember checking that box or whatever), but I am also kind of scared of them. But I do hate manually going all the places I go on the Internets to see what the Internets have to say today.
Anyway, I do not have time to solve this problem right now, nor do I know how. Maybe I should look into Twitter. Maybe I should leave my blog editing page open all day and just dump my Gchat messages in here as they come, which would really cause those of you getting my RSS feeds to be en fuego with updates, but they would not be long. Mostly they would be links to funny things and blurbs about dumb things I did today.
For instance, today’s Gchat status messages have been:
[something like] “dropped 16 oz. of iced coffee on the floor in a crowded train car this morning and was then told by a woman holding a copy of Eat Pray Love that it was a good sign, that I needed to be more aware today, in a good way. My calves are aware. Ow.”
[something about talk like a pirate day. yarrr.]
“perrrrfectly described: http://defamer.
Anyway, I don’t know. What do you guys think?
RSS feeds are wicked useful, once you get past the initial hurdles of a) figuring out what they are and b) getting comfortable using them.
I mean, RSS won’t stop you from going all over the internet for stuff. But if, like me, you read a ton of blogs, it’ll at least help you consolidate most of them to a single place.
I use Google Reader (which is easy) and I love it. At first I spent way too much time reading things from various sites I subscribe to, but now I am more judicious in deciding what is worth my time. Even so, I have a backlog of nearly 300 unread items – mostly from news or magazine sites (yikes!); the blogs are easier to keep up on.
But if you blog your gchat messages, I suspect I will not get as excited each time I see a new post from “people say she’s crazy…” in my RSS reader. So I vote for not blogging them.
Then again, maybe you could add a running list of recent gchat messages to your sidebar, and link it to a separate page with ALL of your gchat messages. Hmmm, yes, I like that idea.
What Brock said. I think if I saw that as a blog post, I’d skip over most if not all of it.
I think you should have a weekly gChat-staus recap blog-post.
Imagine reading that sentence 10 years ago.
I have no idea what any of this means. None. But I do really like your blog, and I wish you wrote more often – just for the sake of my entertainment. You know, since that’s clearly the purpose of this whole endeavor.
both! you should twitter your away messages when you change them and also put the best into occasional blog posts (styled as mcswys lists)…and those will appear in your blog RSS feeds.