Because this is a such a fun world, on Oct. 7, 2005 I wrote a post called, "Tools I love." The Internet grew because people were generous with information--good information. And technology changes very fast.
I said then that,
The criteria for what I like in computer stuff includes these characteristics: The tools are handy and help me organize. Instructions are clearly written. The authors valued simplicity of form, but complexity of capacity. The company has a good reputation and history of reliable service.My Blogs: South by Southwest is my primary blog, mostly political and "serious." Feeling the need to be more visual and literate, I have a new blog hosted by Bloglegion called Southwest Blogger. I link back and forth between the web pages.
Good tools: In addition to Bloglines I use another aggregator called newsgator that has some features I like such as a good set of folders, ratings, and save-to-clippings.
Little tools:
- I am adding Technorati tags at the end of each post.
- Because Pingomatic does not always work, I have added Pingoat as my pinging tool.
- I use "sticky notes for my desktop from MoRUN.net Sticker Lite.
- I have discovered another neat little program called Sideblog, that adds a short independent section for quick entries along the side of my S/SW blog (i.e. the Creative Commons nomenclature and the My Sites annotated list).
- Rather than a plain list of links via the template, I have added Blogrolling's list.
- del.icio.us: At the bottom I have the tags from my del.icio.us. To add any links to documents in del.icio.us, I save from My Documents into MyYahoo! Briefcase, and then post them into the del.icio.us favorites. I also use the Bundles feature for grouping tags.
Tags: blogging tools site news web technologyMy "creative" post today at Southwest Blogger is about Jackie and the Kennedy family.
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