Many electrical appliances use power even when they are turned off. I’m on a new energy efficiency kick in my house, plugging everything into power strips that can be powered down when not needed. Right now I’m hitting electronics — the TVs, wireless modem, printers, etc. Even a phone charger left plugged in with no phone attached sucks power!
More good stuff from Yahoo. MyBlogLog looks like a way to try to make web pages, specifically blogs, respond to your personal interests. Like a lot of these new web apps I can’t say I completely understand what its all about. But once you register you can add your blog to your profile. You also add a little bit of MyBlogLog code to the template for your blog, which then tracks visitors and reports back to you. Over time a profile is built up both for the visitor (with a MyBlogLog account) and you the site owner as to what tags people are interested in. A WordPress plugin on the site will suggest other posts with similar but different tags.
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In a recent issue of Network World two articles demonstrate the conflicting views of social networking in the workplace. One in four businesses block access to Facebook, social networking sites - Network World — that title says it all. But two pages back “Working the Web to find an IT job” tells us “Facebook, LinkedIN and Ryze draw volumes of professionals… and hiring companies are exploiting such sites to find IT talent.” It reminds me of the early days of the Internet, when many employers only granted access to upper-level management, with the same fear of wasted employee time.
It may be time for me to start using delicious again. They’ve just launched a big site redesign, which at first glance looks very good. I also didn’t realize they were now owned by Yahoo (since 2005) — and I think Yahoo does a very good job with its web apps (i.e. flickr ). The site was also a regular theme in David Weinberger’s new book, Everything is Miscellaneous, which I just finished reading. I’ll write more about the book in a future post (in short it has some good ideas and is worth picking up).
I never bothered with MySpace, so I can’t really compare. And frankly, while I have a FaceBook profile I can’t say I am an active user. I mostly have it to keep current with ‘what its all about.’ But at least for the moment it looks like I picked the right place to be…
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