post haste
i’ve been playing with this online todo list tool, and one of the lists i made is of things i get an idea to blog about, so that i can forget about them without having to take the time to write the whole entry.
i’ve only been doing this for a couple of days, and it is showing signs of being not the best idea, because the list is too long.
right now it says:
- why i think we should manage information rather than limit it, aka response to jacki or why we should learn to stop worrying and love the throng
- why i started a bloglines account but end up just using delicious instead
- a hypothesis on why we need to immerse ourselves in media to feel more connected these days
- here’s my challenge: find an era when someone hasn’t written that their era is pivotal
- that visualizing text as images link
- feeling like a hack, going to wit (w;t), watching my moods shift — school, expectations, fear of tragedy
- notecard in my helmet?
- mantra about liking to do things
- liking sleep because it slows down my brain
i don’t really feel like writing about any of these things right now, and i really shouldn’t anyway because i have to finish getting ready for our final presentation in pervasive computing tomorrow, but i thought that posting the list itself would be a good way to write something, and also to record a peep of the discussion i have with myself about what sorts of things should really go here, how much detail i should include, how much i can capture without causing my head to explode, etc.
so there ya go.
peep!
if you want to vote on what sounds most intriguing, that could make for an interesting experiment… if i got responses my strategy could be to just keep a list like this, do my own triage, and then once a month or so post what i don’t get around to and have a readers’ choice edition.
:)
December 6th, 2005 at 10:06 pm
Fear of tragedy?
“…find an era when someone hasn???t written that their era is pivotal.”
No such thing. Every era IS pivotal.
December 6th, 2005 at 11:58 pm
“??find an era when someone hasn???t written that their era is pivotal.”
vs.
“No such thing. Every era IS pivotal.”
Based on the original statement, it’s actually pretty easy to come up with an example: the era before written language. Lots of major developments may have been made that were pivotal, but obviously no one was writing about it.
December 7th, 2005 at 12:31 am
I wasn’t thinking about record. I would think that if a generation couldn’t conceivably keep a record of contemporary thought they’d be exempt from the… uh, thingy. They shouldn’t be considered in the question. But yeah, people with no concept of ‘era’ would probably be the last to not think their age important. Also, I’m thinking the challenge might have been rhetorical. Heh.