Thursday 23 August 2007

Blogs, my analysis of the past, and Qubox

In some respects I've always avoided the blog scene, I've never understood it. I guess the big realisation is that you don't really have to.

Blogs to me in the past always appeared a waste of time, for the self-loving or perhaps 'mentally unstable' among us. Droves and droves of people trying to tell the world through play of words that they're bored. Insatiably so. Well... I didn't really want to know.

Turns out not all blogs are the same.

I've had an odd summer, spreading my time between my home town (Darlington) and my alma mater (Manchester), amalgamated with other destinations so that I could spend time with friends, family, and the love of my life, Rachel.













It's during this time, when my main income has had to come from agency work, that I've had a rediculous amount of free time.

And that, has led me to some interesting web content.

lifehack.org started me off really, with this post i swiftly found after coming to the decision that my free time could be put into better practice.
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/20-productive-ways-to-use-your-free-time.html

That has in turn introduced me to zenhabits.net, with articles such as this post which immediately link elsewhere....
http://zenhabits.net/2007/08/strategies-for-time-wasters-and-information-overload/

And the number of people that 'tune in' to these blogs, to use a primitive radio term, and are actually at the same 'wavelength' with the authors, really astonishes me.

It's then that it hits you, just how powerful blogs can be. The only problem is, how do you filter through all of these blogs, and make use of this power? There doesn't seem to be an easy solution... How do you find what's best for you without hours of trawling the blogosphere?

Qubox.com is one solution to this problem which is currently in it's infancy. The idea behind it is to sort the architects of the blogosphere themselves, the writers of the blogs, to give you matches to them based on similar thought patterns.

Why not give it a go? At the moment it needs a push to get going, a user community to help it off its feet.
http://www.qubox.com/

And if you like the idea, why don't you see if you think like me?
http://www.qubox.com/doyouthinklike/JamieThompson/about/ChangingBritain
http://www.qubox.com/doyouthinklike/JamieThompson/about/Music
http://www.qubox.com/doyouthinklike/JamieThompson/about/Love

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