I've had way too many blogs go to waste. Every blog is the start of a new adventure, one which too often, because of lazyness or lack of interest, becomes dormant and is doomed to forever drift in the 'lost but not found' bin of the World Wide Web.
Yet I find myself being a blogger squatter on too many sites to convince myself not to start a new one. I've been there, done that, but never really WENT there, DONE that. To think that some people find it natural to expose these (at least for some) intimate and powerful feelings to the wide audience that is the web-enabled intrigues and wakes in me a strong wave of power and relief. I keep thinking of all that is going on in everyone's head every minute and is automatically dismissed by the rest of the living (if not the dead) simply because they are unaware that it is even there. How many connections have we lost, how much potential is wasted on egocentrists that think that these thoughts and realizations are theirs alone?
So a new adventure starts for me today, and although this first entry is doomed to become the polaroid of minutes passed, it may yet live in the present of someone else's tomorrow.
Stay tuned. I'll likely have interesting stuff to post at some point. After all, the brain keeps on farting....
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I am all about solving information overload. I think it is the next commodity to be over-consumed. Food made developed countries fat - fat in an unhealthy way, not fat in a Secret Garden way. Information makes us free - free in a lost way, not an American Revolution way. How do we protect ourselves from all the information that we do become aware of, which will steal away the minutes of our lives, tracing the psychological scar left by the too-often repeated thought "oh. this is just someone spamming me."
ReplyDeleteI am guilty of spamming people too. Maybe I'm doing it right now. Maybe. But you and I pay attention to everything we tell each other because we recognize that our tendency to spam each other is very low. Let's find more people like each other :-)
Information overload is like getting those annoying phone calls from people who want to sell something or promote something but aren't ballsy enough to have that appear on call display. You end up answering just because it's what you do. What if it's important??
ReplyDeleteThen again, information overload sometimes lead you ways you would never have thought you'd pursue. That's why I still answer the phone, and still read the email in my junk folder. What if I was enlightened, showed something of interest...even if it does come from icoke or speed date *:) :) :)* <-- those REALLY annoy me...
So yes, I value your spamming Dave. Yours more than some others, because you spam the kindof stuff I want to be overloaded with. And them you spam me with stuff I don't understand, and you make me understand it without lifting a finger. You make me WORK. What am I, 9?? ;)
I agree. Let's find more people like each other. Let's make information overload worthwhile. Or at least let's make it fun.