habits die hard
No matter how many betas I seem to join out there, I can't seem to form new habits to use them. The onslaught of social networking and wizbang 2.0 beta's out there are overwhelming. So many good ideas, so many new things to play with, yet my habits resort to what I can do vs what I'd maybe like to do but haven't formed that habit in doing that yet.
In the end this makes me appear to be a beta poser. Sure I got the beta, I'm in, yet I don't use it. What will the scene have to do to enforce a change in my habits? Make it easier? Better? More attractive? Instill the proper incentive? Be more habit forming like? I don't know. I just know i can't spin on a dime like betas seem to spin out the edge.
Yesterday i saw that SmartMobs.com has an official name for what's basically a blogwatch posting. They call it mobility something, but basically a blogger commenting on another series of blogger posts. I saw it catch space in techmeme, which is one my habits in daily surfing.
I basically preform a kind of ritual every time I open safari
1. newsvine - for the latest in seeds and actual news stories, time spent - .30 to 1 min
2. tuaw - what's new on the apple scene, time spent - .30 to 1 min
3. techmeme - what's new on the whole scene, time spent - 1 min to 3 min
Thats the initial burst of surfing. Then if i got time
4. wow insider - always curious whats new in World of Warcraft, time spent - .20 to .30
5. flickr - brief glance at the contacts, time spent - .10 to .30
6. emily's hub - what's new in betas, time spent - 1 min to 4 mins
Now at this point I'm really wasting time. My brain is surfing to just fill up whatever I can get. But then before ya know it, I go full hog throttle.
7. bloglines - i go for the low entry numbers first, blogs i usually keep up with, the (3), or (12) new entry ones, I dare not touch the (200) new entry ones, time spent - 1 min to 30 min.
If bloglines goes over well, I'll get the urge to blog. Hence this post.