Information/inspiration overload Jun16 '04
Goodness.
The right column on my site is getting much too large for easy consumption. It’s like an 11–year–old turning 12. All of a sudden, they sprout up two feet!
I feel the right column wants to just explode out of it’s container! I might as well form an entire new web site, just for that information.
The problem is information/inspiration overload.
The information overload involves all the reading that I do each day. My Bloglines subscriptions alone account for hundreds of news/blog items every day. And every day I am adding more and more sites.
Incoming email has to be read too. And then cell phone voice messages, and text messages. It’s no wonder I take so long to call or text message friends back – I can barely keep up with all the stuff pouring in!
I could literally spend the entire day sifting through news updates, emails, blog updates, voice messages – I’m surprised I ever get any work done! (somehow I do, although I can’t understand it)
And now I get my email forwarded to my cell phone as a text message, and pretty soon all my blog updates will be as well!
And then I am always inspired by what I read, so I write about it. Writing takes time too.
I feel I can’t keep up any more. Every time I get inspired by a news/blog update, I start to write about it, then another update comes, and I want to write about that – and before you know it, I have 20 topics to write about! And keep in mind, this is personal business – not at all a part of my daily work routine.
I have a few text documents on my hard drive that are FILLED with writings – things that I’ve started, and never finished; things that caught my attention and I jot down for a future post; and things that have been there for months.
In fact, this entry that I am writing right now – this very one that you are reading – has me feeling so rushed and "out of control," I wonder how many spelling/grammatical errors there are. I have already spent 20 minutes writing just this much. And I still want to sift through headlines and emails.
Oh, and I have to have a life too, and do things like eat dinner. Is that possible?
Does anyone understand me??!!
Apparently, Mike Davidson does. (Mike was the Web Standards developer/expert of the new version of ESPN.com.) Role model, indeed. This guy is Talented, with a capital "T." Goodness, I have a lot to shoot for.
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