Fili’s world

As part of my job I try and track things that are happening in the field I’m consulting in. Not that it’s really needed, but it makes me feel as though there’s progress and that I’m going somewhere. There are many tools that I use for that, reading some websites, following some blogs through RSS feeds but the most interesting tools have to do with the latest Internet revolution I’m quite passionate about - The Social Internet.

Some have you might have noticed the small symbols at the end of each post marked : “Social web revolution”, some of you might have even wondered what that was about, very few - so it seems - actually tried those buttons out. One of those buttons indicate the latest News trend called “Digg” which allows users to tag news they see on the web. You can then RSS a certain search pattern to receive news discovered by users and that users think is important or interesting. I’ve got a few search patterns going, which gets me the information I’m looking for (The other two are the popular Social bookmarking tool Del.icio.us and the popular blogshpere search and tag system Technorati).

It’s very interesting to see what people are interested in, and what some consider news. As, for example, yesterday, being interested in the field of Security and Israel (regarding hi-tech), I received a Digged article called “Israeli girls with Hummers and machine guns” (Link) which brought me to consider the bizarre reality of the Israeli army. Feminists in Israel have managed to perform the incredible achievement of having females taking up combat positions and serving as long as the boys (in a year or two, when male service will drop to 2 years). Sure, there’s still a long way to go for the girls to take up high-officer roles, but that’s changing too. From the little I know, I don’t think there’s anything quite like that anywhere else. If there is a need for an army, I’m sure that it should also have the “feminine” side. Sometime soon, my young sister, aged 18, is joining up, to start her 2 years mandatory army service.

Funny how this article got in that Digg session. People, eh?