I love the Internet. I hate boredom.
In 2007, it has now been 13 years that I’ve been online and to be perfectly honest, I don’t think that I’ve ever been bored online in all that time. TV? Used to bore me all the time – not just the ads either – and that’s why I barely watch any.
One of the dangerously addictive parts of the Net in my eyes is Digg. Like a video game, if I wasn’t careful I could spend hours and hours reading and voting, voting and reading. That is why I avoid using a Digg widget on my computer’s Desktop, instead limiting myself to the homepage RSS feed. That alone can still eat an hour of my day.
Here’s something that I just Dugg: favicon2dots. You put in http://jobmob.co.il/ or any URL to a site with a favicon and voila, pixel-beauty, here on the right.
So what distracts you from working?
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--Jacob Share
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Tags: boredom, Digg, distractions, web2.0, widgets
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[...] Resist the urge to put all sorts of Google Widgets, Yahoo! Widgets or other Widgets on your computer’s Desktop. Like my Digg Widget example – they encourage you to frequently ‘check the action on your Desktop’ when you should be busy somewhere above the Desktop. [...]
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— February 27, 2007 #
The Strongbad emails are one of my favourite wastes of time, but probably won’t help motivation for a new job.
Comment by Derek
— September 19, 2007 #