Well, I was inspired to take up the blog again - I admit - by the Social Media workshop, and to prove it here I am again. For those who have an interest in tailored news feeds, Adobe has a beta site Myfeedz.com which lets you register (free) & compose a page, (or select from suggestions) a number of RSS feeds. Importantly you can tag the links, or follow others' tage to make choices of news to read. As they say today:

Now serving over 355,000 articlesfrom 8,000 feeds. myFeedz tracks roughly 185,000 tags.

One current news item is from a site I view regularly on my "normal" online feed reader (Netvibes)*; this is Robin Good's site www.masternewmedia.org . The new article is "Content media trends and future directions for online media publishing: What's ahead?"; this may be of interest... *being an inveterate dabbler, I also use Google Reader and Bloglines as well as a USB-mounted application (the excellent freebie FeedReader). When you gather a collection of feeds and it gets to be larger than a dozen or so - or if you want to access feeds from different online apps - it's worth using a reader like FeedReader (or Bloglines, etc) which can import & export OPML files. See the Wikipedia definition of OPML for more...

Today's workshop Web2.0, social media, blogs, podcasts etc. Melcrum workshop featuring Lee (who thinks he has colour blindness - nah don't worry all wives think husbands have no taste in clothes...) Having to post this as 'homework" has reminded me there's a long time since my last post... unfortunately though this blog doesn't retain stuff from my first Blogger blog; when they went Googlified and changed to this much improved interface I stiffed up copying over my old posts as I was tweaking site templates too... :-( Good to have quite a few of my understandings/thinking about social media & it's value confirmed, although I dunno that Lee saying this stuff's "meant" for 20-somethings is necessarily true.