Seomoz

Time to be honest, yet again - I hate Craigslist! I have a friend who swears she can always find anything and everything she needs on it, and I've tried but... I just find it infuriating. I mean, you pull up the first page and all it shows is about one hundred links. No thank you, I'll just Google it. However, I figured if THAT was number 1, I'd like to see how number 2 managed. So I decided to check out Oodle. I like it, cute name. It's... it's beautiful. It's craigslist made usable. You simply input "what" and "where." It's great. I can handle this. And, best of all, it actually found the things I was looking for.

Then, I looked at Philantrophy and found one of my most favorite web sites of all time. Care2. Click buttons to save things. It's paid by the ads and other stuff that the site hosts. Just take a minute to check it out. I'm sure you'll find something you can support.

Where's the mouse?

I actually tend to agree with this. Being that I haven't subscribed to cable in... gosh... about 4 years at least, I certainly have a "cognitive surplus." This is not to say I spend hours on Wikipedia. No, no. I spend time reading, playing video games, talking to friends, etc. However, I do accomplish many of these things ONLINE.

The last time I watched TV, which I only do with the use of bunny-ears, I managed to bring in the Presidental voting statistics. I watched the results on TV, but I watched the speeches online the next day. Now how much of this actually serves to raise my "cognitive" abilities? Well, that I really couldn't tell you. But as Clay says, doing SOMEthing is better than doing NOthing.

Even my grandmother spends many of her hours of free time - yes, she is retired - on her computer. She can read the newspapers from Maine (where she's from and has family), chat online with her kids and grandkids, and she even sends the occasional humorous email.

As for sitting mindlessly on the sofa, well, yes, I do find ways to do that even without a TV. They are called DVDs. I can become strangly fascinated with watching TV series on DVD. However, I usually watch them with friends (or husband), which lends itself nicely to intellectual conversations about... well, okay, so watching "Supernatural" and talking about vampires and werewolves isn't the best example... You get my point. :)

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Okay, so I did it last year, but my Meez needed an update.

I've also been looking back over 2.0 and refreshing my memory on things I'd forgotten about, or just haven't used that often.