Techno-anxiety and conflicted feelings

I've been challenged to maintain a certain momentum in my blogging: regular posts for the duration of the 23things program. The visceral response to a challenge is to meet it.

However, I've never been one to maintain a diary - thoughts of insufficient significance, memories best deleted as soon as possible, protection of the guilty, etc. The thought of 'sharing' in an electronic form open - as I know from my HR work - to examination by an international community of cybernauts is, to be blunt, paralyzing to my WASP sentiments [soundtrack of generations of Presbyterians rolling in their tombs]. And why contribute to the mounting volume of narcissistic e-drivel?

I'm left thinking that increasing mastery of the medium may spark increasing significance of the message... O, for the intellectual wings of an angel!

[My great hope is one of the next assignments will cover the deletion of blog segments]

Aftermath of Assignment #1

In modifying my layout, I somehow managed to mangle my initial user ID for Google. Impossible to get into blogger.com under either ID: correct or incorrect.

I've ended up deleting my account and re-establishing it.

I'll be intrigued to see if my blog-ability lives or dies on the next overnight run.

To quote one of my earliest library supervisors: "Technology is wonderful, when it works".

23 Things Assignment #1

When Lancaster was predicting a 'paperless revolution', it was assumed that libraries would disappear as a quaint anachronism. In recent years, libraries have consolidated their position as repositories of human knowledge, developers of e-content, and have become a recognized source both of the resources required to access this brave new e-world and as the workplaces of thousands of service-oriented cybernauts. Take that, Lancaster!

Through the '23 Things' program, I expect to expand my awareness of emerging technologies - and my capacity to evaluate and use them.

I'm keen to explore the potential of communicating with others who are working on similar projects or studies to my own. The power of technology is in minimizing the impact of geographical distance on the development of an effective professional network (or so I hope).