C14 works for me.

my typical problem with surfing is figuring out how to avoid reloading kottke all the time.

tonight’s effort, such as it was, is to use Google Spreadsheet as an organizing tool for the “what’s next to look at” function, with a geographical ordering of sites so that people in the same place clump together. Bill, you’re C14.

I think what I’m arguing against is underestimating anything, or anybody.

I have a lot of fun reading these posts, but one thing stands out to me. “Sitting on your ass surfing” shouldn’t be underestimated. I can’t make things without consuming something or other first. Surfing is where a lot of the good work grows from: bookmarks and conversations, occasional blog posts, sometimes prints on analog lettepresses. Maybe you mean the empty surf process, the mindless one where a person refreshes Kottke four times a day and then checks her email again, but that’s just low-quality surfing and it isn’t completely bad either.

Part of what I like about the Nasty Nets Internet Surfing Club (and other net art) is that it argues, in its own particular way, that surfing is valuable and worth close inspection. Of course, it argues this by producing something out of it.

And heh, surfing my network’s gang signs on Facebook is a vital part of my community-building process.