1) I am having a hard time juggling between my responsibilities and other interests. I have also lost some of the enthusiasm to keep up the kind of blogging that I had been doing for some time. It is sometimes hard for me to retrace my train of thoughts or make something useful out of it at a later date, if I dont spend good time on each post.
Basically, I want to do longer pieces. I also want to do them at longer intervals. The kind of schedule I have lately been keeping precludes posting through the week. I expect to post things at the weekends rather than throughout the week. (unless of course there is some breaking news that is overriding interest to me!)
If you want to be kept updated on new posts without having to come here to check for updates, there are two ways you can do it:
-You can also use an RSS reader that will allow you to check on new posts
-You can send me an e-mail requesting notification when I post something (Later on, I would add something on the right hand nav. where you can add your e-mail address)
Mostly though, you would be ok if you check things on a weekly basis. (It is certainly nice to assume that the rest of the world is waiting with bated breath to hear my utterances on every subject under the sun :-)! )
2) As someone whose professional and recreational life is governed by information/ content/ software and the culture and technology that revolves around it, one of the most frustrating aspects of my life in the web enabled world is management of information.
In my life, Information has the following physical dimensions. e-mail, hard drive, paper based documents, urls/Bookmarks, contact information, books. To the extent possible, I would like to have an application that is cross platform, cross referencible, searchable and mobile (when I say mobile, I primarily mean that I should be able to access them through the web). There seems
to be no tool available that allows me to do that, thought there are various tools that give me various degrees of mobility.
It did not help matters that when I originally started using e-mail, I had no idea of what I was getting into and how e-mail and web will come to rule my and most other knowledge workers’ lives. I also did not plan for spam. As a result, I now use 5 different e-mail addresses. Consolidating them is proving to be more challanging than I thought it would be.
I remember Jason Kottke once had a very good conversation on the subject of creating a personal schema on his weblog. But the link to those comments doesnt seem to be working. But the idea of building a personal topic map is intriguing. If anyone has a good link or reference on the subject, please let me know. There is a bunch of interesting links on FieldNotes that I plan to read up. If you some thoughts on the subject, I would love to hear from you.
3) I am also looking for a free tool (preferably) that would allow me to manage writing, bibliography etc. in a single, easy-to-use environment. But it is a jungle out there! Is there any field of endeavour left which does not have too many software solutions yet?
