website: http://wordpress.com
One blog among a million, my reasoning for setting this up is a completely selfish one. These are the days of constant consumption in mass amounts. Everyday I intake servings full of online articles, radio news, television, film, rss, phone conversations, research reports, and other streams of information. This blog is to server as a record of my digestion. This blog will be my own way to microchunk the incoming data into my life.
It’s funny that I hadn’t thought of doing this earlier. I am somewhat of an order-philiac. I get all tingling over well organized decks of information. One look at my box of alphabetically organized wine note cards documenting every wine we’ve ever had and liked, complete with an accompanying Excel sheet guide of wines sorted by region, varietal, price, date consumed… you get the idea. The only thing I am more psychotic about organizing than my wine consumption record is vacation plans. I laid a large taped together Google Map of France and Italy with note cards depicting various cities, activities, mood pictures, and asked my husband where he wanted to go. He was appreciative, but secretly thought I was crazy for planning a vacation in February that we were taking in November. But it was enjoyable to me, something I looked forward to doing every day after work, my reward for my painfully long work hours.
The good news and the motivator for this blog: I have begun a new career as an Interactive Strategist at Organic. I have enjoyed my first two weeks, but have been feeling an overwhelming but fantastic pressure to become better than I already am. I am no longer the one person web department, but a small fish in a sea of intelligent web-savvy co-workers. I’ve been cramming an especially large amount of data about web trends, new technologies, online advertising, unique marketing vehicles, and statistics statistics statistics. As much as ooey-gooey web2.0 tools such as NetVibes have made my consumption a bit easier, I’m not retaining as much as I consume. Its exactly like learning a new language, unless I start to reuse what I read, I’m not going to be able to speak fluently.
Inspired by my peers, who have been blogging for years, I will now join the ranks of what PEW calls the internet “omnivores”. Expect to see many posts about the world of the web, but also movies, television, wine, and anything else I consume on a daily basis that has been exceptionally inspiring (positively and negatively). Speaking of negative inspirations, I think I will make my first true content post about a site that continues to uninspire me even though I pay to use it: Wine Specator Online.
You must be logged in to post a comment.
RECENT WINES