Google Buzz – The Gmail Inbox Killer

I’m not going to lie, I’m a Google fangirl, so when I heard about Wave I was really excited. I think there are a lot of great things that could come from it – but it never seemed to take off, largely due to the very limited release. It is hard to be excited about an awesome service when you can’t share it with anyone or use it for anything. I just kept hoping Google would open it up more – then I heard about Buzz. In a lot of ways it felt like Google had abandoned Wave for Buzz, so I thought I’d check it out.

In short? I hate it. I don’t use a browser to check my mail, so the fact that I have to log into Gmail to access Buzz is kind of annoying. On top of that I made the mistake of following and responding to a fairly famous freelancer…my inbox got slammed with replies from people I didn’t know and wasn’t following. Now, I’m all for being communicative and in theory this is great – it could really help build a sense of community where as Twitter often feels more isolative – but the fact that I couldn’t shut down or manage the responses to this person (that I really wanted to follow) forced me to unfollow and silence the threads just to be able to clean up my inbox.

I’m hesitant to abandon Buzz entirely, I think there could be a place for it just as there is a place for Twitter and Facebook, but at this point it is really just annoying. As a friend of mine said, “Gmail has flies.”

Busy like a beaver

I’ve been swamped (in a mostly good way) lately. I’m learning a lot about how specific I need to be with clients about what I’ll do for them for what I’ve estimated. I’m also learning to do things with WordPress that I’ve never done before and I’m doing my first Zen Cart based website. I’m probably undercharging on these things (I’m sure I am, actually) but now I have a better idea how to move forward with future clients. Exciting!

Change in format

So, rather than having pages that are really long showcasing my various work, I’ve pointed the links in the header to different post tags. If you want to see examples of my graphic design and photography work click “Misc Projects” if you want to see websites…well…click “Websites” – this is the best work around I’ve come up with yet since I can’t upload the backup file of my site.

Calvary Series

Since I am unable to get the backup of all my posts imported I decided to just go ahead and start posting some of the work by hand. I’ll do it by series, and I’m starting with stuff done for my church.

What a week!

I had to install a new hard drive on my computer, and then WordPress won’t install my backup of my posts. Working out the bugs, but at this point I may have to upload everything by hand if I can’t figure it out. Lame!