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According to Google Reader I’m currently subscribed to 162 different feeds. That figure comes after I’ve just pruned away at the subscriptions because there was basically no way i could keep up—anything not updated in a while, on second thoughts uninteresting, or simply too high volume has gone). 162 doesn’t sound a lot but it’s still probably too many; I’ll have to keep trimming as I notice which ones are actually never getting read. If you really like you can get a glimpse into this stream of information (well, most of it), by looking at my shared blogrolled page (actually called Blogrolled because I had hoped to be able to get out a simple list of site URLs, but that doesn’t seem possible at first glance).

Via Google Operating System, FlashEarth in Google Earth, as a layer. Ooooh!

When Firefox introduced Google suggest integration into the search bar I have was quiet sceptical that this was at all useful and wouldn’t, in fact, get in the way. I was wrong, it’s pretty damn useful, just not really for speeding up searches. It is useful for quickly doing sums (Google suggest includes Google’s calculator) and checking spelling. I very rarely found it useful for actual search though, apart from the one or two times it’s helped me find the proper term I’m probably looking for. Anyway, I was wrong, govna

[Incidentally, as far as improvements to the Firefox search box go, Second Search is the best]

In a sort of continuation to a theme via Gadgetopia comes New York Times news that the Wikipedia logo contains some errors. I think that as a representation of Wikipedia this makes the logo even more wonderful. It says that even though things may be pretty damn good (like that logo is) it is produced by people exactly like you and so may contain the occasional error. This all goes back to considering the source of information. I’ve seen reports that some educational institutions have essentially completely banned the use of Wikipedia. I think that’s overkill. It probably shouldn’t be used as a citation (unless it really is the only one you can find) but that doesn’t reduce it’s usefulness (and I think in some circumstances it probably is a valid citation—as much as any random reference book anyway). As a starting point it is often hard to beat. Instead of saying don’t use it, it would be much more productive to teach to critically evaluate its contents (even correcting it where possible, as that’s the nature of the beast) and to follow through to the often cited sources.