Now why doesn't she write?!?
If you have seen Dances with Wolves you know this quote from the guy who used to play Eldin on Murphy Brown. (And if you are asking who's Eldin and What is Murphy Brown, you might not get most of the references that I'll make in this blog.)But seriously it's been a while since I've felt the need to write down things here. So why now? Well, I recently (several months ago) and reluctantly created a twitter account. My tech friends and collegues were all tweeting and facebooking. I had looked at facebook and didnt want to be there (never say never tho). I just didn't see the point in what all the buzz was about this twitter thing. At gatherings and parties, I'm not a small talk kind of gal, so the idea that I was suppose to share all the little minutia of my life in 140 character bites over the air waves and that people would actually cae just didn't seem like something that would interest me. But I signed up and did some tweeting. My general axiom for my tweets is that rather than 'share' what I'm having for lunch or what outfit I'd picked out for the day, that instead I'd tweet anything that I would normally yell at the TV. It made me feel better and didn't scare the cats. As much anyway.
It wasn't really until I found a third party UI (User Interface for those non-geeks) program for the twitter service called Tweetdeck, that I really got into the groove. The program allows you to take the stream of consciousness feeds from the people that you follow on twitter and group them into, well, groups. I have a TechGeek group, a Non-Tech Group, a Writers/Publishers group, a TV/Fandom group... well, you get the idea. Hey, I have eclectic, um, I mean diverse interests. And I can group those in TweetDeck. More importantly, now I have context to those tweets. I confess, I am hooked.
My original axiom about yelling at the TV tweets still stands, most evident when I watch the Sunday morning 'news' programs, but I've really gotten into this whole RT -- that's Retweeting to those uninitiated. I feel like I'm interacting and passing on information now. I'm being productive. No really!
So what does all this have to do with the re-opening of my blog? Well, sometimes there are conversations going on in twitter that I just have more to say than I can do in 140 characters. These could be about technology, either new trends, product releases or maybe even training content. These could be about writing, the epub trends (I'm a big eReader fan and consumer) or just publishing discussions in general. So... the blog. Previously I thought that blogs had to be focused on one type of subject. ie: personal, techy, writing, etc. Twitter actually taught me that blogs, etc don't have to be single threaded.
What you will see here will be, for lack of a better categorization, me. All of my interests, all of my political views (fair warning here) and all of my quirks and warts. Yes, there will be techy stuff. There will be political stuff. There will be movie, books and TV stuff. Pretty much the kinds of stuff you see from me in Twitter, just longer.
Thanks for reading and let the journey begin (again).
posted by velvetdagger @ 6:58 AM
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