Should You Be in My Google Reader?
Like I often do with my apartment, I’ve let my Google Reader get a bit untidy. Like my fridge, it’s emptier than I want it to be. Like my closet, it has some great things in there, but I could always use more.
So, can you help me fix up my Google Reader? Should your blog be in there? I’m interested in reading pearls of wisdom from blogs about social media, social networking, Web 2.0, public relations, marketing, mobile/wireless, hot products, geekery, good advice, fun events to attend, etc.
I definitely have some excellent blogs in my reader already, like PR-Squared, Chris Brogan, Web Strategy by Jeremiah and SheGeeks, but maybe you fit in there too or maybe you have a list of blogs you think I’d like. I want my reader to be so packed full of brilliance that I don’t know what to do with myself.
Can you help?
Wordle is Sort of Fun
My friend Juliana showed me Wordle the other day and I’ve sort of enjoyed playing around with it. I say “sort of” because it doesn’t exactly work the way I want.
With Wordle, you enter a URL (for your blog or your del.icio.us page or whatever) and it produces a word cloud that you can tweak. You can choose from a bunch of fonts, colors and layouts, making it fun to play with as you match your cloud to your mood or style. However, you can’t input different pages of a site or specific posts on your blog (or at least I can’t). It only chooses words from the most recent couple of posts on your home page, regardless of whether you enter a specific page or not.
This is annoying for me because sometimes I blog about things that are sort of random. (OK, I pretty much always do…) When I first tried Wordle, all my words had to do with my recent post about honey bees and ice cream, so I felt my Wordle cloud wasn’t all that representative of my blog or myself. And I like customized Web 2.0 toys to represent mah style, yo. Don’t you?
Anyway, here’s my current Wordle cloud anyway. Sort of fun, sort of whatever. Try it out.
4×4 Meme: Summer Edition
Miss Sarah Wurrey recently tagged me in her “Sum-Sum-Summertime” post, and since I’m relaxing on the couch tonight, I thought, oh yeah, tonight is the night I reveal my summer 4×4, ooh baby, ooh baby.
Wanna know my thoughts about summer? Check it out.
4 Things I Love About Summer:
- More hours of daylight
- Natural tans
- SYTYCD
- Fireworks
4 Things I Hate About Summer:
- Humidity
- Air conditioners set to -47 degrees
- People on the bus/train smelling like a bucket of sweat
- Missing the freedom of having a “summer vacation”
4 Summer Foods I Love
- Ice cream
- Watermelon
- Burritos
- Lemonade (it counts)
4 Summer Looks to Avoid
Now let’s pay this meme forward. Tell us what you think about all things summer:
