Where do you spend your online time?
I've worked through my grief process and can finally accept it: I'm an addict. I manage it pretty well, except when there's a project to be done that doesn't take my fancy, but that has more to do with procrastination than addiction.
If there's an internet connection, I'll be using it. Oddly, when camping, far away from the technological world, I get on just fine. I suspect it's because camping, for me, is an attention-intensive sport. Seriously. I go camping with little children.
So, the question that every marketer wants to know is: where do you spend your time online (so I can put my ads there)? For me, just three or four places, usually.
My homepage is MSN.com. It's a holdover from when I was a Qwest customer and got my nifty @msn.com email account. But I find they do a fine job of aggregating the news. Generally, I'll read every interesting story, and since my interests are broad, that includes sports, money, entertainment, and even stuff from Women's Day or wherever.
Several years ago, I found Slate.com (used to be a joint venture with MSN) and I'd say that, for analysis and longer stories, that's my outlet of choice. Look up "JediToby" on their discussion boards (see link on my page) and you'll see me trying to bring sanity into an asylum from time to time.
I've got a Yahoo page, too. The customizable page is awesome: I can put MSN articles on there, Slate articles on there, get stuff from the Tribune and DesNews, and control the theme. Why it isn't my home page, I don't know. Mostly, I think, because it lacks pictures, which are wholly my fault.
And, as I just mentioned, for local news, I go to desnews.com and sltrib.com. Not always following local news, though. I usually get it from KSL on the way to and from work.
And, of course, Google for my searches, but now that I have a google search bar in IE7, there's just no need for going to the google page.
Of all these, I only subscribe (in the monetary sense) to one site: WeatherUnderground.com, which has nothing to do with terrorism, and plenty to do with weather. For $5/year, I get ad-free, up-to-the-moment weather reporting, in as much detail as I can ask for. And their mobile version works well with my cell phone.
Oh, almost forgot: when I'm just wasting time, I'll head over to Pogo.com for chess, or Kongregate.com for the latest flash games.
I tried out FusionFall.com from Cartoon Network during the Beta last week. My laptop didn't like it much, and my home computer was choppy. Basically looked a lot like a dumbed-down WoW for kids. Not an altogether bad thing, but not really my thing, either.
OH! And what got me writing--in other words, back to the point of this post--is Scott Adam's blog at dilbert.com. I don't read it every day, but when I do remember to get over to it, I find myself reading everything I missed, laughing all the while. Aside from some language I would never use, Scott seems like the type of guy I'd hang out with: broad-minded enough to be interesting, and nerdy enough to be deep. Ah. Humor.
So, no, I don't post here often, but I'm almost certainly online, if I'm not working (and probably online if I am). Except for the Wii, now, which seems to suck away more and more time....
So where do you spend your online time?
If there's an internet connection, I'll be using it. Oddly, when camping, far away from the technological world, I get on just fine. I suspect it's because camping, for me, is an attention-intensive sport. Seriously. I go camping with little children.
So, the question that every marketer wants to know is: where do you spend your time online (so I can put my ads there)? For me, just three or four places, usually.
My homepage is MSN.com. It's a holdover from when I was a Qwest customer and got my nifty @msn.com email account. But I find they do a fine job of aggregating the news. Generally, I'll read every interesting story, and since my interests are broad, that includes sports, money, entertainment, and even stuff from Women's Day or wherever.
Several years ago, I found Slate.com (used to be a joint venture with MSN) and I'd say that, for analysis and longer stories, that's my outlet of choice. Look up "JediToby" on their discussion boards (see link on my page) and you'll see me trying to bring sanity into an asylum from time to time.
I've got a Yahoo page, too. The customizable page is awesome: I can put MSN articles on there, Slate articles on there, get stuff from the Tribune and DesNews, and control the theme. Why it isn't my home page, I don't know. Mostly, I think, because it lacks pictures, which are wholly my fault.
And, as I just mentioned, for local news, I go to desnews.com and sltrib.com. Not always following local news, though. I usually get it from KSL on the way to and from work.
And, of course, Google for my searches, but now that I have a google search bar in IE7, there's just no need for going to the google page.
Of all these, I only subscribe (in the monetary sense) to one site: WeatherUnderground.com, which has nothing to do with terrorism, and plenty to do with weather. For $5/year, I get ad-free, up-to-the-moment weather reporting, in as much detail as I can ask for. And their mobile version works well with my cell phone.
Oh, almost forgot: when I'm just wasting time, I'll head over to Pogo.com for chess, or Kongregate.com for the latest flash games.
I tried out FusionFall.com from Cartoon Network during the Beta last week. My laptop didn't like it much, and my home computer was choppy. Basically looked a lot like a dumbed-down WoW for kids. Not an altogether bad thing, but not really my thing, either.
OH! And what got me writing--in other words, back to the point of this post--is Scott Adam's blog at dilbert.com. I don't read it every day, but when I do remember to get over to it, I find myself reading everything I missed, laughing all the while. Aside from some language I would never use, Scott seems like the type of guy I'd hang out with: broad-minded enough to be interesting, and nerdy enough to be deep. Ah. Humor.
So, no, I don't post here often, but I'm almost certainly online, if I'm not working (and probably online if I am). Except for the Wii, now, which seems to suck away more and more time....
So where do you spend your online time?