...the tech curve--completely!
What an interesting couple of weeks this has been. I'd always been on the cutting edge of tech stuff, especially social media tools. Used to blog all the time. Ck the archives.
Then I traveled--a whole bunch, for a couple of years. Couldn't keep track of my time zone, much less what I was reading. Result? No writing.
And now, that growing list of blog feeds is being managed by GoogleReader--not excited about that. Try going from a nice, neat little desktop app to a flash-based tool that may not really be all that flashy, much less functional.
Not only have I not figured out an efficient way to even browse the 350+ blogs I follow, I'm turning completely to Twitter (oy!) for my sources. That's not entirely bad. But this is where my early-adoption of tech changed to late-adoption.
Back when Facebook experienced its boomer/GenX onslaught a couple years ago, my brother told me I should join Twitter. I thought, no way--I'm not updating even more frequently than FB! And I avoided it, until earlier this year I realized that, heck, even if I can't blog like I used to, I can micro-blog using this quick little tool.
I love to read lots of info and share it w/others who can benefit from it. Would love to say I'm an info-sponge, but I'm more like a pipe. A leaky one.
Anyway, I've been making up for lost time ever since. Now I'm figuring out what my objectives really are w/social media, whether I'll ever blog again (decided I will, both here and kind of 'flash-blogging' at Posterous) and what it all looks like when other priorities compete for my very short attention span.
Excited to have a go at it again, but I won't lie: I got the jitters about keeping it all up. For now, I'm back in the game and looking forward to it.
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