Think of this quote, which I found ramdomly on the net "The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory". The key word here is "think" since so many people now a days, let the tv, computer and internet tell them what to think. I know we cannot give these things up, but stop and think once in a while and ponder on what you are watching, reading, browsing or using. Cattle mentality is not sexy, or desirable.
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Been gone for a while
I haven't posted anything in this blog for a long time. Through my research of new technology, I encountered many other blog apps and so I wrote on different sites. There were so many that I got tired of writing and tired of trying to remember all my sites; and yes I did use http://www.delicious.com to gather all of my bookmarks, but that even got tiresome. So I decided to close all of the other blogs, and my many websites and start from scratch again and concentrate on one only blog and maybe one or two new websites that I will be creating (one for professional development and another for my short stories). This site seems to be the most known and popular so I will continue with this one for my blog, although I think I have two more blogs floating around in this site as well. Oh well, what is a librarian to do when everything that has to do with technology fascinates me. I guess the answer is to not get caught up in information overload and concentrate on a few things instead of trying to encapsulate all. Since my brain is not a computer (well, it acts like a little tiny one, one that freezes and crashes all the time, but that's a discussion for another day), I must pick and choose what I really want to learn, teach and discuss. Information overload is not fun as I find myself remembering the oddest things and will forget where I parked my car, or how to finish a sentence or how to pronounce words (yes, I 'm weird that way). Anyway, lets go back to the subject of information overload and technology. Here's a site that I just love and it causes me much grief since it has so many applications and sites that I want to use http://www.go2web20.net/. It styles itself as the complete web2.0 library, well it is not true but it sure does have a lot of applications and I will spend hours clicking on each individual application to see how I can use it, learn from it and teach it to some poor soul who is unlucky to come to me for help or to listen to me ramble on about its application. Sometimes, all this technology and its constant changes become too much and I must absent myself from the computer so my brain can rest and be its old weird self once again.
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