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Honing down
I am dispersed on the internet and need to focus in on my communications. I’m now the digital media coordinator for the New South Wales Teachers Federation (my official title is ‘Digital Media Sub-Editor’ but that makes for an awkward introduction to anyone outside trade unions). For the past weeks I’ve been researching and discussing social networks and focusing one’s (or one’s organisation) online presence. Though I’m by no means a power user, I have this weblog, a Twitter account, Facebook, email and several chat clients. I know that some people juggle a dozen different means of electronic communication, I think I need to focus down to even fewer than I’m now carrying. This is partially because I’m working full time now, married and don’t have the time or energy to devote to sitting online all day. But it’s more about dispersing my mental energy; I need to make more considered effort to less and better.
Facebook in particular is beginning to creep me out with some of the things they are doing with information ownership and privacy (I was already wary of it…and these past weeks have tipped me over). Apple is going to make some changes to their handling of email and I may lose the .mac email I’ve had for the past decade. I already pay for hosting of this website with a very robust company; it would make sense to just have this one domain and email rather than spread them all about.
I’m also finding myself in some in-depth discussions about Twitter and where it is going. When I first signed up for Twitter, I wasn’t really sure about how useful it would be but the past year has made its power apparent.
I’m no longer spending hours and hours a day on Skype (mainly because Penny and I are here together). But, even so, I’m beginning to wonder about how distractive it can be when not scheduled and ‘capped’ in usage.
So, I think I’m going to cut back to blogging, micro-blogging in Twitter and very focused use of email. I know that, over the past months, I’ve had neglected a lot of ideas that I should have been writing about here on the weblog. I’m going to keep Textpattern as I love its back-end but will probably look to update the web-facing side of things over the next couple months.