What’s the big Squidoo?
by Randall McCarley
November 14th, 2006
In the “because everyone else has one” category, 14th Colony now has a Squidoo Lens. As near as I can tell Squidoo is a cross between Wikipedia and MySpace but built for a more grown-up audience.
I must admit I got started on this several times and just didn’t see the point. Now that it is done I still don’t but maybe something cool will come of it?
The process of creating my lens was not very enjoyable. The site was slow to load and each time I uploaded an image FireFox locked up and had to be restarted. I am a big avoider of the mouse and prefer to use a keyboard for navigation (much faster) but the forms are not in order so the curser kept jumping around adding to my agitation.
On the plus-side the modules are easy to understand and fill out. You should understand what you are doing even if you don’t understand why. ;-)
Anyway take a look and let me know if there are any improvements I should make or expectations to be had. At least if anything does come from it I will be pleasantly surprised!
While I was at it I made a lens for Scout and the Linker’s Union.
PS. I also created a MySpace profile. Please be my friend! :-)
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