by David LeMieux
Slashing Subjective Time - excellent article on the time people spend on the web and how to make it faster and less boring.
Semi-related tangent: I am starting to get tired of not knowing where to put web collections. By web collections I mean things I find on the web that interest me and that I would like to share (or sometimes not) with others. I know there are services out there, like Del.icio.us that help with this. The main problem, however, is that neither my family nor my friends subscribe to my account. So even though I store the data in a semi-central location I still have to fish it back out to share with anybody. I could just put it all on my blog, but that is still a passive approach. I have considered using something like Bzzster (works great) but the frequent emails would start to annoy people. Services like Digg, Reddit, and Techmeme are great for finding out what others are talking about, but they all use their own system for sharing that information with others. There are social aggregators, like BlueSwarm, that can pull of my data in to one place, but even then, despite sharing features and widgets, it mostly serves as a central repository.
What I want is a tool that, when I find something interesting, will give me a wealth of options including bookmarking, sharing through IM, marking for later visitation, sending via email, and/or posting to my blog all while also managing my contacts. Basically, a mash-up (or blendl) of delicious, twitter, bzzzster, and that cool blog plugin.
There are a lot of things in this post that I should go back and link but I am not up to it right now.