CogBlogged from ‘February, 2007’

I’ve waxed often on my love of Google Reader and of the personalized, gadget/widget laden Google Home page, but now I am all googly about Google in my Google. Huh? A few days ago I added the module for Google Reader to be a part of my Google home page: This sits along side the other ones that show my a peek inside my Google Calendar and another that does a list of Google Docs I have. Not bad, not so earth shattering. So the one that does Google Reader gives you headlines, ok. And you can have it display from a selected tag or folder. Neat. But I found out by dumb luck clicking, that clicking on the title of a story, blows it up into a half pop over bubble– Woah, Neo! So you could paw through all your fees without going into the reader, and see a [...]

After a few more days following my foray into two social network apps, I have a completely, non-scientific, suspect, un-analytical conclusion no one should take seriously. Twitter is a heck of a lot more fun and gratifying than LinkedIn. I’ve heard the comments, and accept them as true for them, that people get a lot of value in professional connections via LinkedIn. It feels, so much more…. mature.. than what Twitter is, an ADD prone kids game. Right? I’ve spent a lot more time deleting or clicking on links in my LinkedIn invitations, while to twitter takes about 5 seconds via my chat client. I’ve made 24 “connections” in LinkedIn, though 5 have yet to respond. I’ve got 11 friends linked in twitter, quite a few of them publicly cursing me for blogging about it. Heh. What I’ve found clunky in LinkedIn, besides my moans and groans about what it [...]

The CogDogBlog has been un-snapped. Back in December I experimented with adding the capability offered by Snap.com that with some additional calls to a remote JavaScript library in your blog templates, it adds a small web site preview when you mouse-over a link external from your site. I found it interesting, sometimes in the way when I was trying to right/control click to copy a URL, but never quite convinced myself why it was important. And since it was yet one more thing loading something else from an external site, I’m opting to take it out for now. Though is this interesting concept, a blog full of poems by [[mez]] (what language??) that uses links to some external preset sites to add some visual oomph to words, as jill noted: As you can see, the code-snippet only shows previews to linked pages on other domains. So Mez created a quick-and-easy [...]