Me category

It started back in 2004, I was a fresh student straight out of high school. Ready to enter into the world of university-life. And here I am now, in 2008 as a fresh graduate (so long as those final assignments get marked positively – which they will). What a feeling it is!

Every day I was in constant thought of the final day. Now that it is here, well, now I have other things to worry about.

As was blogged/tweeted earlier, I’ve got a job in the fine city of Wellington with the folks at Trade Me (for those who asked, as a developer). I start on the 14th. Between then and now is wrapping up work at the University, and moving. I’m hoping the move goes really smoothly.

While in Hamilton I’ve met many great people, made many friends, and have lots of great memories. I’m going to miss this place. But the future is calling, and if I don’t leap now, when will I?

So, yup, I move. In over a week. Daniel’s Blog in Wellington. Join us!

Tomorrow I am off to Wellington up until Sunday.

Should be fun.

I watched the latest Epic-Fu at SXSW asking people what they thought was the “Fu of the week” (or their best web product). One of the Rocketboomers said Bloglines as they read thousands of blogs a day.

Then it hit me, where have all the blogs I used to read go?

Last year I switched from Firefox extension Sage as my feed reader, and jumped over to Netvibes so then I could read my blogs anywhere, as well as tap into other social services I use regularly like Facebook. I made my Netvibes pages so then I didn’t have to scroll around much, and be overwhelmed by information. Unfortunately, that meant cutting some blogs.

I switched to Bloglines Beta and, well, it’s better (not perfect though, perhaps the buggiest Beta I’ve been in) and I found an old OPML export (Netvibes OPML export doesn’t work). And well, now I can see blogs that I haven’t read and read them.

To be honest, I don’t think I get a full spectrum of blogs, I certainly don’t have many on my list that I’d like to read. Usually through-out my day I stumble on about four or so blogs but read an article and move on. I’ll try and make an effort, add any blog I stumble upon to my Bloglines, give it a week and see how it goes, at least for a little while or until I get overwhelmed.

Any suggestions welcome.