For me the main sources are email, Facebook and Twitter. But I also log into a select set of ‘news’ sites: especially some of the alternative ones that came into being during the lead up to the referendum, and are now gearing up to support the new politics.
Twitter posts are very short and most Facebook entries are fairly brief. But many of them point to extended offerings that are in textual, audio or video format. The subject matter varies. On the one hand I know more about what goes on in my real life community than I ever did before, while, on the other hand, I find out what is happening at the cutting edge of a range of political and academic topics in the wider national and global spheres.
Writing about my ICT involvement helps me to understand it better. I spend most of my waking hours absorbing ideas from the cutting edges and then letting the unconscious generate blog posts based loosely upon them. Other than that there are domestic chores to attend to and there is time for chair-dosing and bed-sleeping.
The blog posts are my product and reason for existing. They are not hugely popular but they have some mildly encouraging statistics.
The site at www.naesaebad.blogspot.com was established in Jan 2013. As of today it contains 306 posts (one every two days) and has had 12,138 pageviews. At present it receives about 50 pageviews per day. The audience is mainly in the US and the UK but there is a good following in Russia, Germany and Turkey.
The archive site at www.dodclark.blogspot.com was established in May 2006. As of today it contains 507 posts and has had 33,582 pageviews. It presently receives about 24 pageviews per day. The audience is mainly in the US and the UK but there is a good following in India, Russia, and Canada.
Today’s blogposts get added to those that already exist. A back catalogue is therefore building up. Several compilations have been prepared and are freely available but they have only rarely been downloaded.
So why do I put more stuff into cyberspace? Cream rises? If an idea catches on it will spread. Survival of the fittest. Cultural evolution. Mimetics.
"Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend" Mao Tse-Tung (1950s) - Don't interfere with promising developments in their early stages.
More Mao - When people see only what is under their feet, not what lies above the mountains and beyond the seas, they are likely to be as boastful as the frog at the bottom of the well.
ReplyDeleteBut when they raise their heads to see the immensity of the universe, the kaleidoscope of man's affairs, the splendour and magnificence of humanity's cause, the wealth of man's talents, and the abundance of knowledge, they become modest.