I filled in for Lloyd over at Lone Gunman this week, and decided to write a series rather related to the fact that I was doing that at all. It’s called How to Internet and it’s about all those tools I use everyday on the internet but which are relatively unknown to large swaths of the internet population. It has seven parts:

1. The Introduction
2. Why? — A somewhat self-indulgent explanation of why the series exists.
3. Dividing Attention — An explanation of where to spend your time on the internet, which is a mix of specific recommendations and general guidelines.
4. Staying Current — In which I extoll the value of RSS and explain how I deal with the onslaught I’ve piped into my house.
5. Reading  — A primer on the essential tools for reading on the internet, which are for me printer-friendly pages, Readable, and Instapaper. (I do mention alternatives in the piece.)
6. Publishing — In which I say you should probably use Tumblr or WordPress, but whatever tool you use it’s more important that you keep using it.
7. Epilogue —  A short essay in which I feel I explained the series better than I did in either of the first two sections.