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How to prove it's an information overload era?
randomor 发表于 2007-10-16 14:01:20
I will begin with the retrospection of my whole yesterday.
Then, I will start with an examination of what would I want to do in a perfect timeless world.
What am I? Monster?
or
Information consuming machine?
I will try to not use this text presentation style, which also used so much of my precious time.
But you can't deny, It's emotion-arousing. You should really try.
- I browsed one website and ended up hooked to the ideas or shall I say inspirations of the bloggers of the website. During the time I was using my computer, I opened up about 100 webpages, through their blogs, I discovered the term bookcrossing and then opened 3 websites about this new concept, including one wikipedia page about this term, one chinese bookcrossing site and one English bookcrossing site. I bookmarked all those sites into de.lici.us and thought that it sounds like a fairy story about books, after about half an hour's reading, I concluded that the books in the Chinese bookcrossing site are too few and the books in the English site are too hard to reach. So I then tried to go back to the original blog site which is edu2do. And discovered another interesting site which is 1idea1day, it's an amazing site, but then I realized its basicly about art and handwork. Although ideas always come up to me whenever I am reading, sleeping or walking, few of them is about arts or handwork. So I stopped and went back to the edu2do site. They have this amazing though a little idealistic project of translating several major educational blogs to Chinese, I figure that maybe I will join them by translate some articles, hopefully I will learn something during the process, and I'll definitely benifit communicating with those aspiring people. But first I'll have to translate one article to prove that I am capable of be a good translator. I'll do that today. But first, I'll have to find a new blog service to be my future academic base, that's where all gets complicated. I starts to find which service best suit my purpose and looks good. After tons of searching using baidu answers and registered two services, 1 hour later, I decided to use yculblog. I definitely should reflect on whyand how I am doing all those things without ever learn any true knowledge. How many percentage of my time has been wasted on doing those "reasonable" things?
Then, I will start with an examination of what would I want to do in a perfect timeless world.
- I will read all the books (about 2000+ pages in English) that I bought last month when I was back in school.
- I will read all the academic papers (about 400+ pages in English) that I downloaded in batches illegally from the school paper databases.
- I will search through the website and keep up with all the interesting blogs that I like. I am not comfortable to open up my Google Reader any more, which now contained about 710+ updated seeds that I did not even know the title of. And I even shamelessly pride of my pond of de.lici.us bookmarks, which contain 700 bookmarks all together.
- I will write about all the thoughts that I have during those process.
- I will finish listening all the podcasts that I have subscribed to. Now, in my itunes, lots of my subscribed and beloved podcast have stopped to update automatically because I just do not have the time to listen to them even in an 2x speed with the Windows Media Player.
- I will listen every song that reside in my library at least 1 time. Although that would take about 10.8 days according to my iTunes. Hopefully, I won't loathe music after I listened all those music and even interested in finding new ones.
- All those things would not oblige me to go outside door, even I want to talk to or IM with all my dear friends on the net.
- Help my mom to make money with funds, and help her and my dad to use computer, so I don't have to be there every time they try to do something on the computer.
- ......
What am I? Monster?
or
Information consuming machine?
I will try to not use this text presentation style, which also used so much of my precious time.
But you can't deny, It's emotion-arousing. You should really try.
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