Thing 31! More Twitter

1. After being on Twitter since February 25th, Thing 31 reminds me of what a novice I am! According to the Five Stages of Twitter article, I might be categorized as a "Presence".

2. I am more of a "Follower" than one who is followed. The ones I follow tend to be more news-related organizations (MPR, MinnPost, New York Times) than individuals. I do enjoy following Esme Murphy of WCCO.

3. Since joining Twitter, I spend less time on Facebook, but still prefer it to Twitter for communicating with people I know. I find it interesting that Facebook changed to have an appearance more like Twitter.

4. I really do not care to know who is tired or hungry.

5. Twitter is great for keeping up with current news - like who won the game. I check Twitter at noon and before going home from work each day.

6. After watching the House and Senate in action, I am enjoying TweetCongress. The members of Congress really depend on their Blackberries when they are on the floor.

7. It has been fun finding other Things on a Stick participants on Twitter, and following their progress.

8. I want to use the Twitter Yellow Pages and explore more of the options in Thing 31 later.

9. The articles for Thing 31 were very interesting. I have saved quite a few Twitter articles in Delicious.

10. After reading about celebrities like Lance Armstrong and Shaquille O'Neal on Twitter (StarTribune, April 3, 2009), I decided to try finding some to follow.

11. One never knows who might show up on Twitter. Today when searching Bemidji State in the Frozen Four, I was surprised to find MnSCU (Minnesota State Colleges & Universities). Now I follow them, and they follow me . . .

12. I notice that I have been reading online newspapers less since being on Twitter. The down side of that may be that I read lots of litle "tweets" about news rather than more in-depth articles.

13. It was fun to be on Twitter when I was on Spring Break in Washington, DC. I commented on what we did each day, and was able to find updates while we were there. Now I follow Ford's Theatre, the National Air and Space Museum and other places where we were that week.

14. I found that my Twitter profile is worth $ 25.00.

15. The Twitter Grader gave me 74 out of 100 possible points.

16. According to a punctuation quiz, I am a comma.

17. I enjoyed some of the sites showing trends with a popular one now being the British singing sensation, Susan Boyle.

18. As it becomes warmer outside, I want to spend more time there rather than with Twitter!

Thing 30! More Ways to Use RSS and Delicious

The only RSS feed that I have on my blog is the Google News one, but I have others on my iGoogle page. Being I have widgets for CNN and Politico on my blog, I do not want to clutter it up too much. Thing 30 introducted me to MANY RSS sites, tricks and tips that I did not previously know about. I looked at all of the sites selected for Thing 30, bookmarked some on Delicious, and now have accounts with Tabbloid and Spreed. After setting up the Spreed account, I thought of my mother who was such a speed reader and said that you don't need to read every a, and and the! I looked at the .govFeeds and rssWeather.com. Now I should spend less time on Facebook and Twitter for awhile and concentrate on RSS feeds for a few days. Too many THINGS to read!

I have had a delicious account before I did the 23 Things. When I set up my original blog, I added a link to it before I did any of the "Things". Now I removed that link and added the linkroll to the sidebar so the most recent entries are visible. I want to organize my tags. Now I have an account with 43marks.com and added my bookmarks to Insuggest.