Information overload

It used to be easy. You had an e-mail address, and ICQ number and all was easy.
Then you needed Hotmail and AIM name.
and then well you used yahoo chat rooms to talk to people on other subjects.

Then, you got second e-mail address to handle the junk from the other stuff.

Its now impossible to keep up.
I have 3 Gmail accounts, Facebook, The blog, AIM, ICQ, Hotmail, Yahoo Messenger (thank G-d for trillian so i can keep the number of open windows to a minimum) and a domain i do nothing with but the e-mail (which i have never given out) gets filled with junk mail constantly

I used to use Igoogle, now i started to use Netvibes to manage my home pages.

To let people know how i am feeling i have twitter, facebook and the status fields in hotmail

I get my news from hundreds of news sources thanks to sites like newsnow.co.uk and google reader.
I have more RSS feeds than i know what to do with now.

I am on so many computers and systems you need delicious or other similar programs just to keep in touch with the sites you use - in case one of them is not linked from another one you happen to like.

Social networking is good, but its getting to the point now where i am asking if i really want to know everything about my friends. Its a lot better to see on these sites which sites my mates are using enjoying, but it keeps me thinking that i used to hate mass e-mails with "check this out" and how closely it resembles it, but to a much wider audience.

On top of that, there is the frustration of not getting a reply - you are on-line, they got the message and it's been 20 mins and no reply - how rude !

Anyway - i am off to check my e-mails, news, and other blogs before bed.
Might get there just in time for my kid to wake up

Flocking onto the web

I recently started using the new social networking browser "flock"
This web browser was born out of the growing amount of presence and usage of social networking sites.
It lets you automatically log into your Facebook, Flikr, Youtube, twitter etc etc accounts.
It also has a blog add-in (similar to the firefox addition which i was using for a while but whose name escapes me at this time- all as standard.

I am not about to give a whole review of it now, but as i play with it some more, I'll let you know how i get on.  
(one thing that seems not so easy is to edit the html of the blog posting - am trying to put a link to the flock site (http://www.flock.com for more info) but not really managing very well

Blogged with the Flock Browser