September 8, 2008
Richard Feynman… one of my friends thinks he’s tops as well!
A friend called up yesterday, all excited that I loved Richard Feynman as much as she did! She never thought that she’d find another person that loved Richard’s writings here in Singapore. And she only found out through a blog entry I posted back in April: Discovered Richard P. Feynman yet?
Guess a blog really does connect you in new ways, even to people you thought you knew really well!
btw, if you haven’t read of Richard Feynman’s popular writings, I really encourage you to do so! He writes in such an accessible, witty style that you’ll be charmed.
Talking about connected, my mum and I sent out the overseas postage-paid Grand Prix postcards (I wrote about these postcards in another of my blogs). We were trying to help our friends and relatives win a trip to Singapore. Well, no trips won, but what’s really nice was that we got a lot of emails and calls back from our friends overseas — heard from quite a few people we hadn’t kept in touch with in quite a while. And all for free! That postcard project is over now, but if you want to send postcards free to your friends overseas, there’s another set that you can get (check out this blog post)
June 5, 2008
Been trying out Hubpages this week
Last week, I wrote about how I was kinda obsessed with creating Squidoo pages in my blog post here. This week, I found out that there’s a site very similar to Squidoo called Hubpages, so I decided to try it out as well.
In the interest of experimentation, I created two ‘Hubs’ there:
1) Must-Have Appliances for the Chinese Kitchen; and
2) Money Diet for the Shopping Lover
… and I’m definitely finding that I enjoy the process of creating pages at Squidoo more. Probably because Squidoo actually has more formatting set for headers and sub-heads, so the pages look more lively. Or maybe it has something to do with the fact that when I was trying out Squidoo, I was creating pages on Clay (Aiken) 😉
One noticeable difference: I find that the hubs on Hubpages tend to be more like articles or blogs; whereas the types of modules available on Squidoo (and formatting options) encourage you to structure your pieces more like a website or page.
One feature I do really like at Hubpages is that it has a section for ‘Requests’ from other users, essentially questions that you can answer by creating a new ‘Hub’. Very useful if you love writing, and want to write, but are at a loss as to what topic to start with.
I will probably continue writing both at Squidoo and Hubpages now that I’ve discovered them. They let you write what are essentially short articles on specific topics, and I’m enjoying doing that.
June 1, 2008
Tried-and-Liked: I’m loving Squidoo
I discovered Squidoo earlier this week, and since then I’ve been focused (a kinder than ‘obsessed’, don’t you think?) on creating Squidoo pages or ‘lenses’ as they call them.
It’s great fun to play around with (well, at least someone as geeky as me would think so).
Never heard of Squidoo? Basically, it’s a site/community where you can create single webpages on any topic that you’re interested in.
The site makes it all very simple, with “modules” to help you add text, web links, pictures, videos, polls, etc. etc.
I was sooooo single-minded (notice I’m trying valiantly to describe myself as ‘obsessed’) that I started FIVE lenses in the last few days:
2) NEW RELEASE: Clay Aiken’s On My Way Here
3) Clay Aiken, Concert Livewire
4) Clay Aiken’s Learning To Sing
and, because I was bemused at how unreliable the media has become:
5) Anatomy of how GOSSIP makes it to the top of the NEWS
And now? All I can is, I’m TIRED!!!
Crooked Turret 