Content is all over the web. Some people live to absorb it, others live to make it.
Content is the juice of the internet, it’s in every site you visit and also in every portal you have set as a home page. In fact content is the web itself. Do not confuse internet with web. Internet is the network between all the computers and then web is all the pages the internet has. The internet is the hard disk and the content the files. This is the best comparison I can come up with.
If you are like me you love to read everything you find on the internet and the more content you have access to the better you feel.
Now how can you have all the power of the web contentin your computer easily?
- You need to find sites with good content. Google is the number one choice for most people but I have to recommend Yahoo over Google because the results are more accurate and they do not repeat themselves so much like Google results do. With this search engine you should find all the sites about what you are looking for and then subscribe them using google reader. This is the best reader because it’s light, online, and has a sharing feature that makes a HTML page for all the content you share, making it easily readable on any computer. You should also subscribe to your shared page so you can on Google reader browse it all on the same page instead of having to click over and over again to turn the page.
- Next thing you must do is to use Google alerts. This will warn you by email when a new page about the keywords you choose is updated on the server. If you subscribe to Travian, for you will the latest changes in the top 10 for sites, blogs, news, or anything you choose there. This is one of the best things Google made so far. Very useful to have the latest things in the world delivered right to your email inbox.
- Finally you need to have a great search thing to find all that content immediately. I recommend today you to save on your email all the information you want to remember later. Why email? Because you will never delete it, it’s always online and you can send it anywhere later. Use Thunderbird to get all your email to your hard disk, all in the same place and then index it with the X1 Desktop search. Now I can find anything I ever saw on the internet as fast as my fingers can type.
This is it. Too bad you just have one life to read all the content!













Tue, Apr 21, 2009, by Redburn
Web Talk