Mindful Musings

How many times in the day do you feel like you are in an information overload? How many times in the day do you check your email or get on your computer and get innundated by instant messages? How many of your get alerts on your pagers or cell phones about incoming messages or news events? How many of you regularly read blogs and feel out of the loop when deprived of the opportunity? Speaking only for myself, I lose touch with my friends and start to feel guilty when I cant receive my email or my email gets disconnected or cancelled for some reason. A couple of years ago Macintosh decided to make their .Mac service a pay service and I was left without any access to my .Mac account (my primary email) for over a week. This freaked me out to no end. It is my primary form of communication, outside my cell phone (which itself is very scary).
Ever since I got into the Information Technology business, I have started to assimilate electronic information in ways which suit me and my lifestyle. These are pertinent only to my madness and may not work for everyone. I have honored and tried to follow the path of Jakob Neilson, an expert in this field. He recently published a very interesting article in BBC News Website called Web Guru Fights Info Pollution A bunch of us recently got very caught up in our blogs, the world of blogging and exposure of our sites. I started thinking about the amount of time that some of my friends and I have spent on this medium and realized that the medium had almost taken over my life (I contend that web programming/int tech is my career and my livelihood, so I love what I do and vice versa). When was the last time you spoke to your mother?
“The Matrix has you…”