The web is my job. Yet sometimes I wish the web never existed.
My husband set MSN.com as our homepage. When I logged on this morning I was confronted with dozens (feels like hundreds) of options-
- –Monster storm sweeps across Calif.
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–20 easy tips to save money now
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–Stocks start 2008 with big losses
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–Tupperware-style taser parties feed on ‘girl power’
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–9 health foods that aren’t
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–5 mortgage moves for the new year
That’s about one-sixth of the items above the fold.
Then there’s my Google Reader account for work. I haven’t had time to sit and read anything since before the holidays. Even though my feeds are all work related there’s no time at work. When I get home the last thing I want to do is sit back down infront of a computer screen and read. I’m seriously thinking about buying a Sony Reader PRS-505 just so I can download my RSS feeds and read them on the couch. This morning I have 2388 unread posts–and that doesn’t count Mashable, Lifehacker, BoingBoing.
Then there’s Facebook and all the groups I belong to; Gather and those groups; not to mention Newsvine, Digg, Mixx…
And–oh yeah–I have two kids and a house to clean.
I feel your pain – really I do. This looks like my downstairs!!!
I’m considering abandoning the one of the blogs on your list so it’s one less you need to worry about. It’s a long story and one not best suited for this forum.
It’s too bad really as I enjoyed the process – the funny thing is this reeks of the issue we have been discussing and that is of censorship over style, content and voice.
What we need is some forward thinkers, one of these days, maybe – in the mean time, all we get is clutter!