Friday, February 6, 2009

Discoverability of new media

I've been trying to find new blogs / web sites to read recently, as I'm getting bored of the stack I currently have.

Before the Internet (HA!), I use to read quite a few magazines, and if I ever got bored of a magazine I would just peruse the shelves at my local bookstore to see if anything would grab my attention.

More indirectly though, I'd find myself in a waiting room of some sort every now and again (which I think is where magazines go to die), or more commonly be at someone's house, or at a park / beach and see what was lying around.  

No such thing seems exists for Internet media, which isn't tainted with monetary intentions (yes I'm even looking at you Google Reader).

I guess the closest equivalent to a public space I can think of is Twitter, or even other blogs, but what kind of blogger would want to advertise another person's blog at the risk of redirecting readership?

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Jerrold is a recently migrated Melbourne based software engineer with roughly 5 years experience developing in Java and the web technology stack (HTML, CSS, DOM, JavaScript, etc). More recently, he's started developing in Python (well, Jython, but close enough) and is unsure if it's flaws outweigh its advantages of having a more sugary syntax. He is currently working at a small South Melbourne based company which specialises in sales incentive management / reporting software, and is being schooled in the finer points of small company operations.