Conner's Blog

Ok, I’m not quite back yet.  I’m sitting in the Seattle airport waiting for my flight to Minneapolis to board.  After allowing myself to go disconnected for four days I’m feeling a little out of the loop.  That said, I had a great time and have decided these mini-vacations need to happen more regularly.  Taking a few days off and not bothering to check Twitter, email, or my reader was nice.

The only problem I see is what this screen shot shows.  I came back to almost 400 unread items, an Inbox full of mostly crap, and a ton of spam comments.  Thankfully I should be able to sleep on the plane and plow through most of this today.  Then I have almost 400 photos to look through.

Anyway, it’s great to be back, I had a great time, and am actually looking forward to getting back into the routine

Would a pause button be a great feature on some webapps?  RSS readers would greatly benefit from this.  As I’m writing this post there is currently a Woot Off in progress.  This means that my RSS feed from Woot gets about 30-40 items every 4-5 hours.  It would be great if I could just hit pause and then it skips the items that occur during the time period I specify.  

Twitter would also benefit from this. I follow many people who live twitter confences and other events that do not interest me.  This information fills up my Twitter client and I sometimes miss other tweets that interest me.  The only solution I have is to unfollow the offending party and then remember to follow them again the next day.  This is clunky and the ability to skip updates from individual users for a period of time would be a great feature. 

Any other web applications that could use a pause button?