Comments on: Lots o’ love coming soon! http://team.bkwld.com/2008/07/24/lots-o-love-coming-soon/ Team BKWLD Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:37:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Dan http://team.bkwld.com/2008/07/24/lots-o-love-coming-soon/#comment-6612 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:07:03 +0000 http://team.bkwld.com/2008/07/24/lots-o-love-coming-soon/#comment-6612 Sheesh! 287 websites and 62 Flickr contacts to look at? That sounds like a job itself! Sheesh! 287 websites and 62 Flickr contacts to look at? That sounds like a job itself!

]]> by: Andrew http://team.bkwld.com/2008/07/24/lots-o-love-coming-soon/#comment-6568 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:20:05 +0000 http://team.bkwld.com/2008/07/24/lots-o-love-coming-soon/#comment-6568 Mark, ever heard of Cognitive Overload? Mark, ever heard of Cognitive Overload?

]]> by: Mark http://team.bkwld.com/2008/07/24/lots-o-love-coming-soon/#comment-6375 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:55:33 +0000 http://team.bkwld.com/2008/07/24/lots-o-love-coming-soon/#comment-6375 Sorry, I have to call you out on this one... You could save lots of time and visit more sites if you used RSS feeds. And you also wouldn't have any shortage of banner ads to look at. I currently subscribe to 287 feeds, and I get through just about everything I need to in about 30 minutes. Opening up 287 tabs would probably take up a good chunk of my day. A high percentage of the feeds I subscribe to only offer summaries, so I have to visit the actual site to read the article. I also read a lot of design blogs, and want to see the sites I'm visiting because they are beautiful. NetNewsWire has a webkit based browser built right into it. Most readers (Safari for one) allow you to display just a list of titles for new posts that link right to the entries. Using a list of current content to determine whether or not you should visit a site at that moment ensures you aren't wasting your time, and lets you move on to the next item. RSS feeds are also handy for knowing when your favorite bands are playing, seeing the latest images which of your 62 flickr contacts have posted (do you visit 62 flickr pages every day?), skimming the New York Times for stories that interest you, and what the $0.99 iTunes movie of the week is. This is the internet. If you can't find at least 287 websites devoted to banner ad trends and news, you should probably quit your day job and start one. Sorry, I have to call you out on this one…

You could save lots of time and visit more sites if you used RSS feeds. And you also wouldn’t have any shortage of banner ads to look at.

I currently subscribe to 287 feeds, and I get through just about everything I need to in about 30 minutes. Opening up 287 tabs would probably take up a good chunk of my day. A high percentage of the feeds I subscribe to only offer summaries, so I have to visit the actual site to read the article. I also read a lot of design blogs, and want to see the sites I’m visiting because they are beautiful. NetNewsWire has a webkit based browser built right into it.

Most readers (Safari for one) allow you to display just a list of titles for new posts that link right to the entries. Using a list of current content to determine whether or not you should visit a site at that moment ensures you aren’t wasting your time, and lets you move on to the next item.

RSS feeds are also handy for knowing when your favorite bands are playing, seeing the latest images which of your 62 flickr contacts have posted (do you visit 62 flickr pages every day?), skimming the New York Times for stories that interest you, and what the $0.99 iTunes movie of the week is.

This is the internet. If you can’t find at least 287 websites devoted to banner ad trends and news, you should probably quit your day job and start one.

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