Tuesday, March 07, 2006
How Many Websites Do You Visit?
TechDirt has an article asking how many websites do you visit daily on average? This got me thinking about my own use of the web.
For one thing, my surfing habits changed radically when I discovered RSS feeds (thanks Lyndal!). I use Bloglines as my RSS aggregator, and so I go to that site pretty much every day, and it helps me monitor some 71 websites at the moment. I have subscribed to as many as 150 feeds, but since I was marking a lot of them as read without reading them, I truncated that list down by about half recently. Without Bloglines/RSS, I would probably at best keep track of 20-30 sites.
Apart from Bloglines, I also visit the following web sites daily or almost daily:
For one thing, my surfing habits changed radically when I discovered RSS feeds (thanks Lyndal!). I use Bloglines as my RSS aggregator, and so I go to that site pretty much every day, and it helps me monitor some 71 websites at the moment. I have subscribed to as many as 150 feeds, but since I was marking a lot of them as read without reading them, I truncated that list down by about half recently. Without Bloglines/RSS, I would probably at best keep track of 20-30 sites.
Apart from Bloglines, I also visit the following web sites daily or almost daily:
- A9 - I use this as my primary search engine because it gives me a small discount on my Amazon purchases. I've also occasionally found the search history to be useful.
- Google - I use this on the rare occasion that A9 doesn't find what I want.
- Gmail - This is for my public email address (knight37m at youknowtherest). I check it almost every day. Gmail is bar none the best email provider with the best spam filter. If you need an invite let me know.
- Wikipedia - I use this handy online reference all the time, when I find a term I'm unfamiliar with or whatever. I know it may not be the most authoritative source, but 99 times out of 100 it's relevant. One nice thing about it is that it covers internet slang, and no print-media reference can come close to being as relevant as wikipedia in that arena.
- Merriam-Webster - I use this to check for spelling and rarely for a definition.
- My Bank and My Credit Card Sites - not listing what they are here but I regularly check my balances and recent transactions.
- GameSpot - great commercial-quality gaming news/reviews site, I subscribe to it.
- RPGdot - focuses on my favorite gaming genre, RPGs.
- FilePlanet - I subscribe to this premium download service (mostly gaming oriented).
- GameTZ - trading site, I regularly read and post in the forums, a great community there.
- eBay - I check on auctions here all the time, use it as a "value" guide for shopping.
- Amazon - Pretty much when shopping this is the first place I look.
- Froogle - I use this to check prices a lot.
- GoGamer - This site always has some great deals on PC games.
- PayPal - I use this site to pay for online auctions and such. Visit pretty regularly.
- Blogger - I use this site to post to this blog. Not as often as I'd like.
