Thing 6: Bloglines - who has time for this?
I am starting another blog. This one is on Bloglines the address is: http://www.bloglines.com/public/sfoshag
My original blog is at: http://remotelyconnected.blogspot.com/
I am posting this particular message to both blogs.
Who has time for this? By the time I get home from work, where by the way I work on a computer all day, I have roughly 5 hours before I have to go to bed. In that 5 hours I have to take care of any number of household chores including of course dinner. I enjoy actually interacting with my family. Now I have 'Bloglines' which enables me to instantly check on any or all of my 30 feeds. Other than for this course, who really does this?
As I mentioned before, I have read blogs that I found very informative like the blog my cousin did for my uncle's cancer battle or the blog Lin is doing for her family history. But who is really interested in these blogs unless they have a vested interest in the subject matter?
I looked at a lot of the 'top 200 feeds' and found only a handful that held my interest. I don't care for opinion, I want fact. I have trouble with blogs that contain personal opinion, like I am posting here, as opposed to sites with hard and fast facts. Seriously, am I missing the point? I feel like I must be.
About Me
- Sue
- My family is very important to me, we are very close. I am a little more than 'middle aged' and happily married for the last 30 years. We have 3 adult children who have all graduated from college. I am looking forward to the 'empty nest' even though I love all my children dearly.
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3 comments:
I understand the time frame that everyone operates with. We all get 24 hours. Bloglines can actually save you time because you can subscribe to the content you wish to follow, and then browse that content, much like a newspaper headline, to find and read the blogs, websites, etc. that are most important to you.
You don't have to read and respond to every single article, but you also don't have to visit umpteen websites every day to see if anything new has been published.
I certainly don't read every article in the newspaper, but I subscribe to one because I want to be informed and to try to stay current with what's happening in the world. Likewise with blogs. There are some very smart people around the world who are sharing some great "stuff"-- whether it is fact or opinion-- and I can learn from these people who might not be a published author or columnist.
OK, off my soapbox. But as you can tell, I feel very strongly about the need to stay connected. It's up to you to decide how much time you can devote to that. Some people stay connected by downloading a podcast and listening to it in the car while commuting or running errands. We all have limited time, and we all have many demands on our time, and some things just fall by the wayside despite our good intentions.
I agree about finding time for reading and monitoring a bunch of different blogs. I think some of the education blogs could help me in my work, but when I'm reading them there is part of my mind that is thinking about the things that I need to complete that I'm not doing. There are things in my job I have to do. I have to be ready to teach every day; I have to do grades; I have to do IEPs and re-evaluations. I don't have to read blogs. And if I want to have a personal life, it may be hard to find time to devote to blogs like I would like to.
I have to agree about the time it takes to participate in the on-line living. It is an enormous time invested activity. Time is of great value for all of us, I am a second year teacher and I am in part B of a new prep this year.
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