Almost Random Brain Droppings

Since this is part of my scientific research activities I am on the constant lookout for new Web 2.0 services. I like doing that. Some people have a hobby, I have a research interest. Over the last couple of weeks I have come across two novel approaches to social media that I find worth spreading the word for. I have not yet been able to incorporate these services into my daily routine, but I constantly find myself tempted to change my workflows just to accommodate one or the other.

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For many people, maintaining proper email communication has become a real problem these days. If you are like me, you are getting around 150 to 200 emails per day adding up to 4500 to 6000 per month. If you would use only 2 minutes for each individual email, this would require you spending something around 40 hours per week just for sorting through your email. Quite obviously, this is not possible or at least not in any way healthy. The real scary thing, however, is that these numbers keep increasing continuously. And they do this at an alarming rate, at least in my case.

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A couple of days ago I finally decided to join Google+, which – at the day of this writing – is still in a sort of semi-closed test phase. You need to find somebody who is already on Google+ and convince him or her to send you an invitation. For anybody working in a field related to social media this is more of an annoyance than an actual barrier of entry. As almost all current Google+ users I got a friend of mine to send me an invitation. Now I am part of the game.

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