If you need a little help sorting out your RSS feeds from your Wikis then check out the videos on The CommonCraft Show. Lee LeFever explains the basics in a wonderfully clear way and will get you started with some suggested links to try out. Topics include:

Twitter
Social Networking
Social Bookmarking
Blogs
Wikis
RSS

Is anyone using Twitter actively? Do you find it useful? Do you find out about cool stuff through Twitter? Or is it just more noise, less signal?

Personally I’m a little addicted but I’m not sure if it’s a good, productive addiction or a bad, waste-of-time, distracting addiction. It’s a little like being at a big dinner party and trying to have lots of different conversations at the same time and never quite getting to the point.

I wanted to link to this post from Internet Duct Tape not because you will necessarily be interested in his links (although you may be!) but because it’s a great example of how you can cross-post across various social web-oriented websites to spread your links far and wide. In this case to delicious, stumbleupon, Twitter and Tumblr.

One of the things I would say about all these sites is that it really helps to use them to get a sense of how they work. Reading the “about” section isn’t always that helpful. I thought Twitter was for twits until a friend showed me how he was using it to really participate in a community of film geeks in San Francisco and beyond.