I realize I am way to “type-a” to handle the wealth of networking, reading, learning opportunities online. I want to let go of some things, I really do, but I have this “hoarding” mentality (thank my mother for that!) that forces me to save everything. I might not read it all, but it’s bookmarked somewhere – often harder to find than if I just searched for it anew.

Just read through Dean’s post thanks to @dswaters and @cburell’s comments. I’m the one with glasses of water all over the house. Ask my husband – it’s true.

Maybe a session at the therapists is what I really need

But can’t believe that while I was busy at work you two were up to???? which meant I had to catch up by reading Dean’s post to get the drift of what the? And here I was thinking I would “mark all as read” .

And so here is another comment – now I know time is short but I think you both owe Anne @murcha a comment.

–funnier still: I just went to Dean Shareski’s post BEFORE you cross-posted here, and commented right after you, and playfully-seriously said:

“I only read the last two sentences, since I like to read back-to-front. Wonder what the rest of the post said. Loved the conclusion.

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.”

@xpatasia Hi Paul! thanks for stopping by. Yes, live is just too hectic and doesn’t seem to be getting any less so. I just wrote this comment on Dean Shareski’s latest post about this same sort of thing:

Thank you for writing this. It’s great to know that I’m not the only one who was thinking this way – That keeping up with the joneses doesn’t really matter and that it’s ok not to read everything. I’ve even read a post today about not caring how many subscribers you have. Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster for that! I’ve decided not to use things like Tweetscan and Twitter link monitor – if I miss Twitter conversations, then too bad. Love the reservoir and river metaphor, but the bit I like the best is ‘messiness as a virtue.’ I struggle with that, but realise that I’m fighting an ever-losing battle and should really look for the pleasure in messiness of read and unread posts, of updated and un-updated (is that even a word?!) of finished and unfinished conversations. It means there’s always something new to learn and discover, but that if you don’t want to, that’s fine. There is so much value in making all this information into what we want it to be for ourselves rather than trying to keep up with silly standards or all write/tweet about the same thing. If we do too much we tend to lack focus and so our work may lose meaning. I will treat the Web my way and if means missing out on some stuff, then so be it.

I _said_ you were right about that already, you

Srsly, I totally agree for all the reasons you mention.

I had to tell Miguel the same thing when he tweeted feedback on a post i wrote recently that i thought would enrich the comment thread.

So yup, I agree.

(And Jess gets another comment.)

So here Jess is another comment

I’ve pulled back from a lot – right after joining everything. But I stopped and looked in on twitter tonight and only clicked what intrigued me.

I loved your post!

cburell (@ – W): @jessmcculloch loving your networking and sleeping post link » you hit the syndromes so well, and with flair. 2M Ago