Today, Government Technology released an article with some pretty alarming statistics on where America is in the digital revolution. We are losing.
The article, The Truth Behind America’s Digital Decline, by S. Derek Turner, offers a great snapshot of how far behind we are, including these little tidbit-facts…
Ok, I admit it. I’m a bag addict. I like boxes too. Containers, that’s my thing. Things that hold stuff turn me on. I’m not into typical “girly” things. I don’t particularly care about shoes … although once or twice every five years a pair will really catch my eye. The rest of the time, they are purely functional. If they don’t rub, don’t squeak, don’t cause me issues and aren’t terribly ugly — they are good shoes.
The three most important C’s of my existence could be summed up as: Communication, Companionship and Containers. Yup, that just about covers it. I don’t like owning alot of stuff, but I sure want to have a cool container to hold what stuff I do have.
Mozilla has just released the latest version of the “I can’t, I won’t, imagine living without it” browser. I’m headed over to download it now and put it up for my first test drive. In the meantime, I thought you may want to know where to download it, and what types of reviews it’s getting so far…
I’ve been poking around with the newest beta offering from Google – the Co-op Custom Search Engine. I must say, I like it so far. I’ve managed to load up my own custom search with all the sites contained in my favorites. So, although there are some “wide open” URL’s reflected there – like DMOZ – the majority of the results are really something that speaks to me. They are the sites containing pages or information that I deemed above average, helpful, extremely cool or amazingly weird. It’s a fairly eclectic collection with topics ranging from high tech developments to Voluntary simplicity to Marketing to Tiny Houses and Micro-Dwellings (probably just another “container” issue of mine), to search engine marketing and writing for the web and other topics that comprise my world.
If you want to try out my own customized search, I’ve posted it here on WickedBlog (it’s in the right column on the index page). And, if you would like to create your own…
You can do that by visiting http://www.google.com/coop go give it a spin! It’s pretty cool.
As the time passes and the Net Neutrality Nay-Sayers get stronger, I must push aside my differences with some of our political leaders and come together on this one issue. I think it is one of the biggest issues of my adult life… and I think the full impact of how this decision plays out will not be felt for several years.