I'm an ordinary person, and I think slower than many to learn new things, especially things that involve technology. Many people in my world are dismissive of technological advances, focusing on the negatives - it's different from what they are used to, it's a time-waster, it's hard to learn, it doesn't seem to work when they try. I see it differently, and I've decided to become better at this. I want to appreciate technology, and all it can do for us. I want to develop a passion for learning and incorporating new technologies into my life. The learning process has always been exciting - and maddeningly frustrating! There are many exciting possibilities and directions for both my personal life and my work life. Also fear that if I don't work to learn them, I will get left far behind and unable to learn in my late age.
I have sons in their twenties, young students, and a brand new baby granddaughter. I hope to keep in touch with their lives by immersing myself more in new technologies.
Today I read an exciting article talking about using and writing blogs. He uses an aggregator to track the blogs he follows, and spends 20 minutes every morning catching up on updates. Waste of time? Time you don't have? How many minutes per day do many people still spend reading the newspaper, whether or not the content interests them? This is an opportunity to have daily items of interest, presented, because you selected it.
The author writes enthusiastically about exchanges of ideas, pushing his thoughts, being pushed on his thoughts.
My next stop is to reader.google.com to load up some blogs of interest for me. Writing a blog is more intimidating, until I realize that I have started doing exactly that, with this post.
For now, I am not thinking about anyone following my blog. I hope they don't. But maybe in time I'll be better, and someone might find something I write to be of interest to them.
Over and out.
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