Reclaiming 15 minutes every day

The ZDNet blog, If Forrester likes Macs for IT today, they’ll love Chromebooks tomorrow , hits it right on the money. Highly Empowered and Resourceful Operatives or HEROs are really the types of people that are migrating to the instant on computing experience.

It's all about the 'boot time' reclaiming that 10-15 minutes first thing five times a week first thing in the morning. The 8 seconds to cold boot a Chromebook and instantaneous wake from sleep are the primary reasons I like it. That is roughy one hour of time weekly gained and countless hours of increased productivity due to getting online and starting my mental work when I am ready and not waiting for when my computer is ready. As a high-output high-productive user this is all the difference in world.

Back after a few months in the Google+ Realm

I've been playing in the Google+ space since I joined it back in June when it was invitation only. Since then I have really slacked off on posting anything to my blogs. I have even almost stopped 'tweeting' and find myself spending less and less time on Facebook. Google+ I can say has become a place where I spend a lot of time not just lurking and doing nothing like I would do on Facebook, but actually having discussions on various subjects with people about topics that interest me.

I like the ability to be expressive in G+ with longer posts and the capability to add font effects and multiple links within a G+ post. This has long been an issue I've had with FB and Twitter. The 140-character limit in Twitter has always been a constraint that I have found frustrating at times and at other times a blessing when I was a at a lost for concise words. I think I like the balance that G+ represents which is be as expressive as you want or as concise as you want. Just be expressive.

I find that G+ has been replacing what and where I used to spend my time on the social media net (ex. Facebook, Twitter, etc..). What I have been experiencing these past few months can be summed up a 'new way' to spend my time on the 'social web' that blends research, socialization, technology, politics, techno-politics, local news, and news that interests me.

I have recently just realized a way to bring blogs back into my social web and the G+ experiment. It's taken a few months but now I think I see where blogs and G+ can and will coexist.