Figmentations

I’m been a bit bummed recently that since I don’t own a camera phone or an iPod, that I’m missing out on all the podcastings that are being blogged about. Then I came to realize that I’m not totally “video-less”, I’ve still got Windows MediaPlayer or Real Player. Actually, I just watched my first screencasts, on “Using RSS 101” and “Using Technorati Tags“, by Alex Barnet, mentioned by Steve Rubel of MicroPersuasion. Actually this was very similar to WebEx or Centra presentations I’ve seen at work. Alex’s post even gives links explaining how he creates his screencasts. I love this world of free information.

Anyway, I seem to be finding more “open invitation” type of posts…..

Since I only have Windows 98, I wasn’t able to play Steve Rubel’s Desktop Search “What’s on Your Mind?”. Though just reading about it was educational, I’m now a little closer to knowing more about both loading Desktop Search tools and posting under the del.icio.us tag.

Anyway, I will probably soon also share my list of gadgets, as Steve shared in his post entitled “What’s in your Gadget bag?”. Since I’ve already revealed that I’m not really all that high-tech (I guess it’s kind of odd that I fell into blogging, but that’s beside the point), my gadget bag consists of either work-issued computer stuff or for my blog pursuits basically all free stuff. I’ll elaborate later. The contents that Steve and his commenter’s list probably fit much more closely with that of the more typical blogger demographic: male, affluent, and broadband connected. Well I’m one out of the three. Oh, well…..

However, I do think I’ll use the Buzzword Bingo game (linked to by Alex Barnet) at my next team meeting at work. It might be more apropos to use acronyms instead of buzzwords though….but I think it’ll go over well either way.

I guess I could have also entitled this post,”Remaindered Links”, which I just discovered other bloggers do when they have a few interesting links that they don’t want to part with but don’t have a particular place for. I’ll probably start using that more in the future, though I kind of like tying together a number of thoughts…good segue practice I guess….