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The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent anyone else's view in any way, including those of my employer.
© Copyright 2008
When I wake up the morning I grab coffee and stumble to my desk. Twitter and Gmail are already open with updates and messages. My community is up, awake, and posting info vital to the start of my day. It’s more than just the need to know what’s going on in the world. My Twitter connections are my friends and I care what they’re reading, doing, and voicing opinions about.
However, this morning was a little different. My friend Chris Hambly (SL Audio Zenith) posted a link to his live UStream feed. Chris sitting at his desk with his cam talking to the world about whatever came up in the chat stream.
**Sorry for the awful screenshot Chris**
So there I was, watching Chris in the UK, first thing in the morning. Chatting with MalBurns (who posts the best media coverage of Second Life as anyone on Twitter), also in the UK. We talked about the Web 2.0 tools we use, how the net has changed the ways we communicate. It was a great conversation for the start of the day. It got my wheels spinning and got me thinking about the tools I use to connect and how those tools fit together. After all, I was on Ustream talking to Chris because he Twittered that he was streaming. One media, a microblog, had already lead to another and I hadn’t even finished my first cup of coffee.
So this got me thinking about how I move from one form of Web 2.0 media to another throughout the day. It seems I have a sort of desktop ecosystem of media and community that feeds my interests and my need to connect. It’s an amazing thing but now I’m stuck with the idea of trying to track it all. How to do this? I’ve decided to try out just keeping a Word doc open on my desktop today and tracking what I use and how.
What tools do you use? How do they feed into one another? Stay tuned for the results of my experiment.
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My GMail is almost separate from everything else I do. I do usually start in Twitter, collecting blog posts, news articles, Second Life events, and questions, and go from there. If a particular blog post looks interesting, I’ll add it into Google Reader. In Reader, I’ll star/share anything useful, and decide on whether I need to blog/podcast something in return.
Good luck keeping track of your digital travels!
It’s interesting isn’t it? I did a similar thing and mapped my web 2.0 apps (see http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2007/12/my-personal-wor.html). What I think is fascinating is that none of us set out to construct a working environment, we just accrue this stuff as we find it useful. A system is no longer something you specify once and for all, rather it evolves over time.
I agree with you that the Internet has really changed how we communicate. I still remember I was so excited when I installed my first ICQ client .. anyone remembered that ? And talking and communicating instantly with friends was really quite an eye-opener. Nowadays, the tools I use are of course IM and RSS feeds. There’s so much information we have to process everyday and I think that if we do not have RSS feeds, my head will explode.