People Everyday (plus a round up of what else is going on)
The Aeron chair reclines easily, the lumbar support just beneath the swing of my shoulder blades, and another workday moves by with glacial surety. Two bright rectangles beam light at my glasses-framed face, while a third dark rectangle waits for me to figure out what to do with it. Super Bowl memories drift in from neighboring "bull pens" where corporate-minded suits converse, vying with the tapping of computer keys and the incessant clicking of mice (digital, not rodents).
The sixth person I know tells me, " I know you are on a social media sabbatical, but Facebook is not the same without you." I chuckle, oddly noting that Twitter was harder to kick, given it ability to supply me with new data and new reference points. No, I'm right in believing that I need the time to cut external input for a while, give my own processes time to marinate and mix before unleashing the next salvos of content on an unsuspecting world. Oddly enough, I already know what my first tweet will be when I'm back on January 20, 2011 ... and I may tell somebody, if asked properly.
I have a bit of an addictive personality, so I've switched a fraction of the energy that used to go into incessantly checking my status updates to Google Reader, which is ironic given some of the ways I've been talking about the Mountain View company these days. Google has, however temporarily, given me tools to maintain some of my broadcast desires during my sabbatical -- I used to keep a lengthy text file full of links for my own reference on an SD card, but with the demise of my last smartphone that's been harder, and here's Google Reader to help me keep track of these weird links, and in public too. Who knew?
To be honest, given how twitchy Facebook Mobile was getting in making me log in twice to see my notifications, it's a little harder to miss than open-armed Twitter, which often held a less fleeting degree of discourse. Not to say I don't miss the good features of sharing on Facebook, but it's a more distant ache. Oddly enough, not even three weeks into the vacation from social networking, I barely feel the twinge, and I'm even able to walk away from my nicotine patch-esque applications of email and Google Reader for long stretches of time on the weekend. Who knows how uninformed -- and productive -- I'll be in a few months?
I can't wait to find out.
In other news, here's what I've been doing that you might have missed:
- My lengthy blog against cloud computing where I come down hard on Android phones, non-local productivity apps, distributed entertainment media and the idea of trusting somebody else to babysit your stuff.
- Every week I do comic book reviews for this site called Comic Book Resources, and I post commentary tracks almost every week after I've had a little more time to reflect, adding back stories and what have you.
- Finally published a long-forgotten blog giving my position on abortion.
- As noted, I'm sharing links with Google Reader so you can see where my mind is going. Hm, I gotta include that link on the front page of my website ...
C'est fini.
Playing (Music): "Dream Shatterer" by Big Pun, who died ten years ago yesterday
NOTE: Since this blog is automatically imported into my Facebook page, I apologize if you comment on it and I don't respond, as I am taking a sabbatical from social networking for 2010. So me not responding is not personal, I just won't see the comments ... until 2011. Maybe. Also including this disclaimer on blogs, but you're welcome to go to the blog itself and speak your mind, as I may look there ...
The sixth person I know tells me, " I know you are on a social media sabbatical, but Facebook is not the same without you." I chuckle, oddly noting that Twitter was harder to kick, given it ability to supply me with new data and new reference points. No, I'm right in believing that I need the time to cut external input for a while, give my own processes time to marinate and mix before unleashing the next salvos of content on an unsuspecting world. Oddly enough, I already know what my first tweet will be when I'm back on January 20, 2011 ... and I may tell somebody, if asked properly.
I have a bit of an addictive personality, so I've switched a fraction of the energy that used to go into incessantly checking my status updates to Google Reader, which is ironic given some of the ways I've been talking about the Mountain View company these days. Google has, however temporarily, given me tools to maintain some of my broadcast desires during my sabbatical -- I used to keep a lengthy text file full of links for my own reference on an SD card, but with the demise of my last smartphone that's been harder, and here's Google Reader to help me keep track of these weird links, and in public too. Who knew?
To be honest, given how twitchy Facebook Mobile was getting in making me log in twice to see my notifications, it's a little harder to miss than open-armed Twitter, which often held a less fleeting degree of discourse. Not to say I don't miss the good features of sharing on Facebook, but it's a more distant ache. Oddly enough, not even three weeks into the vacation from social networking, I barely feel the twinge, and I'm even able to walk away from my nicotine patch-esque applications of email and Google Reader for long stretches of time on the weekend. Who knows how uninformed -- and productive -- I'll be in a few months?
I can't wait to find out.
In other news, here's what I've been doing that you might have missed:
- My lengthy blog against cloud computing where I come down hard on Android phones, non-local productivity apps, distributed entertainment media and the idea of trusting somebody else to babysit your stuff.
- Every week I do comic book reviews for this site called Comic Book Resources, and I post commentary tracks almost every week after I've had a little more time to reflect, adding back stories and what have you.
- Finally published a long-forgotten blog giving my position on abortion.
- As noted, I'm sharing links with Google Reader so you can see where my mind is going. Hm, I gotta include that link on the front page of my website ...
C'est fini.
Playing (Music): "Dream Shatterer" by Big Pun, who died ten years ago yesterday
NOTE: Since this blog is automatically imported into my Facebook page, I apologize if you comment on it and I don't respond, as I am taking a sabbatical from social networking for 2010. So me not responding is not personal, I just won't see the comments ... until 2011. Maybe. Also including this disclaimer on blogs, but you're welcome to go to the blog itself and speak your mind, as I may look there ...
Labels: blogging, comics, social_networking, work
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