Happy New Year – 2010
Posted in Links on January 1st, 2010 by Sacha PeterHappy New Year – I hope 2010 will be as good as 2009 was.
I will toss out a few random links for the day:
1. R-Squared wrote an entry on what he learned from maintaining his (much more popular than mine) site – taking out the energy and oil-specific content, his points mirror exactly what I experience here in Double Blind. This is especially true for the “Trying to predict which essays will get a lot of hits is futile” – the items that have gotten a lot of attention here I would have never guessed after writing.
One reason why this site is not popular is because I have not given it a specialization – it is a general site that takes my rants and raves of the day. I’ve carved off the financial side and British Columbia politics elsewhere, however.
2. Justin writes a travel blog entry about his 3 night trip in Okinawa. The part about the different types of salts was fascinating to read about, and I am awfully curious with respect to the taste.
3. Alex Tsakumis never holds back his opinions, and I have very much enjoyed his commentaries that he had in the newspapers. Now he is online and reviewed 2009 and has a fairly good summary – some bullet points I’d disagree with him on, but he is a very entertaining read.
I like the fact that your site has no specialized topic — sometimes I feel better to have topics “pushed” rather than having to go through the effort of selecting and “pulling” a subject. In some ways it’s similar to the difference between talk radio and podcasts, or television and youtube. While youtube is great for finding and watching exactly what you want at any particular moment, I’ve quite often been frustrated seeking entertainment by going to youtube and unable to think of anything to search for. An interesting thought is whether the current generation will be more or less likely to seek the old style “content pushing mediums” because of the new prevalence of these “content pulling mediums”.
Thank you for your comment. I know that whenever I ‘demand’ entertainment from the internet, usually I just go to reddit or Google News and just read whatever pulp is available on those channels. I also know when I’ve exhausted my usual avenues that it’s time to get off the computer and work on something else. I usually don’t do that quickly enough.