Thing #9

Still not a believer in the RSS. I used the technorati and the bloglines searches and still didn't find anything that really interested me. I did like the cool cat teacher blog about finding a circle of the wise. It sounds like a wonderful idea and it's true some of the people blogging will be the "great ones" of our time. However, I still don't want to spend my spare moments on the computer. I'm a believer in the outdoors. I want to spend my moments outside watching the birds and the squirrels. Or planting flowers. Or taking a walk. In the heat of the day it's great to have something else to do inside, hence taking this online class, but when it cools down I'm ready to be out again. Even when it's hot I'd rather watch from my window than sit at a screen.

Someday I may find a blog I'm really interested in -- perhaps something about someone's nature trips. When I hit that wonderful orange button it puts it in my internet explore favorites. Then I can read the blogs I want when I want instead of having all the new stuff bombard me. For me all those pages are serious sensory overload. Once again I'm sure there are scores of you out there who will disagree with me. You are welcome to try to convince me, but for now I'm headed outside.

Thing #8

I was very frustrated setting up my Google reader. I would try to subscribe, but the add button did nothing. I ended up pasting the addresses and was able to subscribe, but then reading all that came in was less than fun. As I have not been a blog reader in the past I tried searching for blogs I might find interesting. I found a few that sounded interesting but then weren't really. One wasn't at all what it said it was and I have been unable as yet to delete it from my list. I guess I've never really been a news junkie anyway. I enjoy the ability to look something up on the internet at a moments notice, but I also have the patience to wait until I can get home or get to a library. My husband would probably love the RSS because he wants to know things right the minute he wonders them. He's the type who has the cell phone with internet capability. I really don't want to sit at a computer all day and read a bunch of useless stuff to find a kernel that is intersting. I honestly don't see any reason why I would need or use an RSS. I don't see that it would be useful to me in teaching or in my daily life. I'm sure someone -- probably many -- will disagree with me and that's just fine.