Comments on: ________ing About Not ________ing http://cogdogblog.com/2009/05/20/________ing-about/ Alan Levine's space for barking about and playing with technology Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:01:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cole http://cogdogblog.com/2009/05/20/________ing-about/comment-page-1/#comment-69301 Cole Thu, 21 May 2009 11:20:54 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=3674#comment-69301 "I'm sorry ..." to have misrepresented what I thought I recall as one of your rules! I think what you are saying here is something I am working through (yet again) ... all the chatter in the twitter space gives me a place to burst ideas and almost presses me to work harder at my "real" posts. Not that working harder at writing is a bad thing. I think having an easy way to express what is happening in the moment has taken some of the edge off the blog. "I'm not dead yet, I don't want to go on the cart" comes to mind. All of the status updates will not give one the potential for full reflection like a blog post does, but in lots of ways (if the data sticks) it still can remind you of where you were and what you were thinking about. Here's the crazy thing -- yesterday I started carrying my analog journal with me again ... I didn't write in it, but I had it with me. Perhaps I am just a bit conflicted (maybe we all are) about where I want to be. Or maybe we are all just really busy and making time to write complete thoughts is eluding us. No matter, no apologies -- I'm still on the bus. “I’m sorry …” to have misrepresented what I thought I recall as one of your rules! I think what you are saying here is something I am working through (yet again) … all the chatter in the twitter space gives me a place to burst ideas and almost presses me to work harder at my “real” posts. Not that working harder at writing is a bad thing. I think having an easy way to express what is happening in the moment has taken some of the edge off the blog.

“I’m not dead yet, I don’t want to go on the cart” comes to mind.

All of the status updates will not give one the potential for full reflection like a blog post does, but in lots of ways (if the data sticks) it still can remind you of where you were and what you were thinking about. Here’s the crazy thing — yesterday I started carrying my analog journal with me again … I didn’t write in it, but I had it with me. Perhaps I am just a bit conflicted (maybe we all are) about where I want to be. Or maybe we are all just really busy and making time to write complete thoughts is eluding us. No matter, no apologies — I’m still on the bus.

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