Week two - This time it's hyperlinked

Week two has swung around and here I am, late for my 23 things meeting and blogging from the office instead.
As far as this weeks tasks go (feeling a little BB there) I delved into the world of RSS feeds and came back surprised.
Back in my pseudo tech days I really felt they were the property of the slashdot crowd, a main line for the netscape crowd, you know the guys that know how much RAM a given process takes etc.
To my surprise, they have evolved a great deal and I can see the functionality for a lot of people.
The biggest questions I have seen so far this week are along the lines of :
Ok, so I subscribed but do I have to go to google reader to do get the info?

In answer Kathryn has had some great responses, with options to install in igoogle, outlook and some 3rd party readers.

I myself have found the google reader add on in firefox a help, but it does add a little pressure when I see the little counter slowly rise.

I have made it a personal goal to read everyone's blog weekly and offer my two cents to the equations (after all I have never been accused of being a wallflower)..... so ultimately you will probably see me post to your blog at some point.

The other question I hear is the same that I have, ok I'm hooked in to the info but where do I find the time?

It's easy to subscribe but harder to digest.

And the choice, do I read something interesting from the lighthouse blog, from the networking blog or just play a game of spider solitaire when I have a few minutes :)
Even better read a little webcomic :

userfriendly

pearls before swine

dinosaur comics

So is it really a question of tech or procrastination?
I guess thats one of my obstacles to overcome with the 23 things.

Course, if you have some spare time on your hands, you could always do something constructive :

Giant tetris

Until next week

Betamax BETAMAX!

As we begin the long road away from the forces of darkness towards the chaotic worlds of open source and the new frontier, we should pause and remember the past a little.

The joyous days of command line interfaces, our faces bathed in the pale green glow of monochromatic screens, struggling to remember the 1043 shortcuts required to just get your email in pine.

The slow roar of frustration as the system allowed you to alter it's own operating system causing our old friend the blue screen of death.

Having to code your own programs just for a little solitaire action in the afternoon.

The whispers of the techno savvy, talking slash dot and the baud rates of different modems.

Now, the penguin is ascending and open source is not a dirty word.
23 things, many new thing, many things we may not be able to do without later, some will go the way of the dodo and some we will fight to death to keep.

It's a new exciting time, however in the back of my head a little voice screams : BETAMAX! BETAMAX! BETAMAX!.