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I need to go to my reader and mark this as read as well as the other 1000 posts I probably have read half of already thanks to my PLN.

@John Larkin. The record collection is another great analogy. Should we be creating a list of these somewhere?

@Heather. Stay away from Facebook

@Ian. I upgraded my WordPress and likely forgot to activate. Thanks. I’ll see what I can do.

P.S. Out of curiosity, why did you remove the “subscribe to comments” option from your blog?

Thanks for the reminder that I shouldn’t feel guilty for marking items as read and ignoring my Facebook account.

@Clay, Twitter is definitely a 3 headed monster of major proportion. I’d encourage to listen to Podcasts #134,135 and 136. In it, they really uncover some powerful insights as to the potential and nature of twitter. I know you’d love it.

@fritz hmmmm. not sure what you mean exactly? I do love to go for walks but do carry my mp3 and listen to podcasts. I’m personally not a great example as I realize I spend way more time than most in this stuff. Part of the way I lead is not to get too excited about what’s new. Not to discourage those that are, but I liken it to letting my research team do the grunt work unit they’ve ironed out the kinks.
I really thing this is a mind-set. Slowing down might mean wading in a few ideas and fleshing them out. At the same time, slowing down might me digging deep into one or two posts but following the links. To some, that might not seem like slowing down.

I guess it doesn’t matter. I’m just trying to alleviate some of the angst that many feel. Maybe I am sending a double message but even then, mark it as read….move on.

My fear in writing this or just about anything now is in attribution. My thoughts are rarely my own but “mangled” and messy combinations of all that I read, hear and watch. I guess everyone would say the same. I like the glass of water metaphor too. Will use that one as well and probably forget where I heard it.

Tee hee.

This points to all sorts of fun things. Virality as a new road to “classicism” in UGC, like Pausch or Fisch; the decline of RSS after all our hopes so very recently (I’m thinking of how I too use my network as my filter more than my feedreader these days – I came here b/c you tweeted it, you shameless self-promoter. Figured it would be better than Buffy re-runs).

And it’s absolutely hilarious that Jess’ comment, just above mine, references the great Flying Spaghetti Monster, which I just tweeted to her in a link today.

Call me crazy, but I think Twitter is the new RSS, cocktail party, exhibition hall, Spaghetti Monster, and diaper-changer. What doesn’t it do?

I’m joking, but seriously – does network size on Twitter correlate at all to neural activity? I’m following about 500 people now, find it easy enough to do, and love how many of them are from circles outside of education. I don’t know where this wave will end, how much bigger it will get, or what it will morph into – cut to Baron Munchhausen flying ship – but I know surfers like me look at it in awe.

Nice post.

It may not surprise you that Stephen Downes said something similar a few years ago. “Think of information as something you can access as needed, like electricity or water. I don’t sit around my house collecting glasses of water.” (Probably mangled from memory, but you get the gist…)

That being said, I do still purge feeds and empty the trash once in a while And I do– occasionally, but it’s not unheard of by any means– still get a twinge of frustration when something comes back around and is hailed as new and innovative that I personally tried to bring people to long before… I’m only human!