[Hidden-tech] biznik

[Ron Miller]

It depends on what you need from that web site. If you belong to Yahoo 
Groups, for instance, you are looking for community. You may read and 
respond in the web interface (or in your email). Same with RSS. I don't 
use an RSS Reader. I get my RSS feeds in Thunderbird.

I'm on the Internet all day long in one form or another. Sometimes I'm 
gathering information. Other times I'm checking information and 
sometimes I'm entering information.

It really depends on the task. I don't think any of these tasks are 
mutually exclusive and I don't believe you need to define the HT web 
site (or any web site) in such narrow terms. Ultimately, it can be 
whatever we want it to be, whether it's a place to exchange information 
(as we are doing here), enter information in a community blog, find 
information or any combination of these tasks.

Ron

Ron Miller
Freelance Technology Writing Since 1988
Contributing Editor, EContent Magazine

email: ronsmiller at comcast.net
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> */Bobbi Melville <bmelville.pgs at verizon.net>/* wrote:
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> For me, websites are places I go to research information that I need
> at that particular moment, not places to go for community
> interaction. What about other people? Do many of you have websites
> that you go to daily or weekly? If so, for what? What is so
> compelling about those sites that you make the effort to check in
> frequently?
>  
> This is an interesting point:  I'd say more that I go to particular 
> blogs regularly (almost daily) vs. going to particular websites. 
>  
> The "website" I go to daily is my Bloglines RSS reader, which aggregates 
> all the stuff I need daily. 
>  
>  From Bloglines I will go to particular blogs (which are differentiate 
> from websites for lots of reasons) that may have links to other sources 
> of information I may need to either write about something or just to 
> stay informed and "in the loop" of conversation.
>  
> There are certain bloggers I keep contact with via comments.  Some of 
> these are folks I've met and know.  Others are folks I simply know from 
> the blogosphere, but have built relationships with them through comments 
> and email.   
>  
> One of those guys just emailed me re LinkedIn.  We've never met f2f, but 
> we read and comment on each other's blogs and have emailed privately.  
> We respect each other's work and it is to our advantage to be linked to 
> one another on LinkedIn. 
>  
> I think that where you go daily on the 'net, what you read, the websites 
> or blogs or games you interact with is contingent on what you need or 
> get from them.  For me, too, websites are places I go for information.  
> Blogs are places I go to  not just for information, but to read ideas, 
> exchange ideas and information, and make connections. For me, the 'net 
> IS social.  What I go to daily is what I need in my particular 
> world--whether for information or business/social connection.  In a 
> networking/networked world, one never knows where social connections 
> might lead and if you know how to do it, the 'net is a great place to 
> met incredible people. 
>  
> Tish G.
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