I need to reorganize how I keep track of stuff I want to read online. I used delicious for several years as a tool to remember all the cool stuff I came across on the web and as a to-do list. Bookmarking has never been an effective way to keep track of stuff I want to read eventually, mainly because I would keep bookmarking and would rarely go back to read anything. (And yes, I had a separate tag called 'to-read' in both my browser and my delicious account). (Similarly, my in-box at work does not serve me well as a to-do list. I have to write 'respond to So-and-So' on my ever-growing-never-shrinking to-do list, or the email gets buried.)
I really don't want to have two different accounts to keep track of my 'read this when you have time' stuff, but it's probably necessary. So far I've come across the perfectly named Read It Later (which has extensions for Firefox and other browsers, as well as an Android app) but I can't take a tour before signing up, and am hesitating on that for some reason. Pinboard looks good, and it's all-in-one, but I really don't want to pay a fee to keep a to-do list.
I also need to pick easier topics, like this one, to write about. I'm one week back into blogging, and so far I have four draft posts - the future of the digital divide, demographic data and what to do with it, assessment tools and how to use them, and cosplay - and no posts to show for it. (Okay, the only thing difficult about the cosplay post is that I'm not sure I have anything to say about it.)
A patron asks a librarian for a book called "Oranges and Peaches." The librarian asks, Do you happen to know the book's author? The patron replies, Oh, it's by someone named Darwin. I have to read it for a class. The librarian finds a copy of "The Origin of Species" for the patron.
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10.28.2011
10.24.2011
AND I'M BACK
Two years ago, I felt that blogging (in general) and the focus of my blog (specifically) had run its course. I stopped writing, and began to play around with various social media (including being offline completely for awhile). I found some tools that I enjoyed, but missed the process of composing my blog posts. While many of the reasons to have a blog today still don't apply to me (I'm not marketing or selling anything, I do not aim to drum up major conversations, and am not actually convinced that anyone will want to read this), I really miss the process of reading for and composing blog posts. I found that writing about something helped make sense out of an idea, and writing is a task that helps me focus my thoughts in a (hopefully) productive direction.
So, here I am.
So, here I am.
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