Top 10: How tos on the web 2.0 for newbies on a mac
In the morning I like to check the latest technology news. It sort of eases you into the day. To find these swell articles I tend to check all the normal nerdy hang outs, slashdot, digg, del.icio.us/popular and so on. But of late I’m getting really pissed off at the titles of these posts. I’m starting to see more and more of the obvious lets-make-a-list and buzzword loaded titles that shows us the author must have read “Top Tips on how to make your blog more popularâ€.
And then there are those “digg this†and “add to del.icio.us†links now placed along side articles. Occasionally useful, but when I see them multiple times on the same article or even at the top and bottom of the page it smacks a little of the authors desperation. Who on earth posts to digg as a bookmark and who uses del.icio.us without the bookmarklet anyway?
Bah.. perhaps I’m just getting old and find the cascade of social networks a little annoying at times, especially when they are all so fair and don’t weight the value of “diggs†or “saves†based upon the users actual ranking or education. Its communism gone mad I tell you.
/rants and puts down the daily mail