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CHRISTMAS DAY 2008

I have been twittering since 5am – good way to spend Christmas morning. I started writing this blog with ustream.tv in the background [cali lewis] and found myself looking up on the web the references she made, then following those... … … usual story I don't get back to the blog for some time then I have lost my thread. Sound familiar? This seems to be the characteristic of surfing the web. I remember when I started using the internet having to decode the content before I could see it, this was such a bore, I didn't spend much time doing it. then came the browsers, I used Netscape first and suddenly all was there to see instantly without having to decode, that was the beginning for me of surfing. In those days I hadn't learned to use the bookmarks [or were they even available then?]. I would completely forget items I had seen, or where I had come from in the first instance. Now since beginning to use twitter, I have found a new phenomenon, following other peoples web surfing. This has taken the surfing experience to another level – sort of three dimensional. I can add to my web browser [now firefox] other peoples bookmarks and paths. I have joined so many different websites I have lost my way in a morass of clubs, blogs, live streams, and general chatter.

It seems that there is the possibility for a site /service to untangle this, to prioritise the feeds/emails/blogs and all the other connections so that I can usefully spend my time on the web in a more structured way – perhaps the service already exists and it has passed me by. I did think tweetdeck could do it, but it has a long way to go before it supplies what I need.

We are here in New York for Christmas and today are having a lazy day, my other half is still in bed, I guess we will have room service latter so we can have breakfast in bed. Til then I will go to get my self organised in real life!

Happy Christmas everybody.

Eric