Twitter, Tumblr, and Too Too Tired

Wow, it's amazing how many different things one can do on the web that I had no idea of. Twitter and Tumblr, for example. Twitter, however, doesn't look useful to me because I don't IM. I don't have a cell phone. I just can't picture myself keeping an adoring following up to date with what I am doing every hour.

Tumblr (and yes, I did start a tumblelog) looks more useful to me. It could be a good way to keep track of useful stuff on the web. I can see the handiness.

I'm not even going to try to speculate on library uses, because I'm kind of tired and can't think of any, except on a personal level, in which Tumblr could be useful in creating a hand-picked personal library of quotes, videos, sites, usw.

In which I create a blog and the quest begins with 7 1/2 habits

Wow. I just created a blog.

This was not my idea, but I like it. I'm learning about different internet tools and programs for my work, and creating this blog was one of the first tasks.

The next task is to write about the 7 1/2 lifelong learning habits--which habits are easiest and hardest for me and why.

Easiest for me is is habit #6, Use Technology to Your Advantage. There are a lot of things I don't know how to do, but those that I do know, I use. When my family at Christmastime was wondering what century it is now, since it isn't the Century of the Fruitbat anymore (go read Terry Pratchett), it was I who said "Let's Google it!" and within a minute had found the answer. It's now the Century of the Anchovy.

Hardest for me is probably habit #1, Begin with the End in Mind. I'm much more prone to go wherever my wandering research takes me--wow, this looks like an interesting book, or link, or whatever! I usually know that certain topics are appealing (cosmology, nutrition, Egyptian art) , but I don't have actual goals that drive my learning. But I can see that having goals makes it more likely that I could actually reach goals. Ha ha, what a thought!

Which makes it nice that this program lays out goals for me. And I fully expect to Have Fun (habit #7 1/2) with it all.