Online dementia
4 days in and I'm suffering from online dementia (new improved name!). Never heard of it? It's a disease that afflicts Internet users who try to navigate among several new inter-connected web environments without break. It starts out with slight feelings of confusion but, after a few hours, manifests itself as a nervous click as the hapless web wanderer goes around in loops and off at tangents in a frantic click-frenzy. A growing feeling of panic and a forboding sense of certainty that something important is being missed can be indicators that shut-down is close. While for many this shutdown is temporary, some never make it back...
posted by Janina at 5:41 AM
6 Comments:
I know what you mean! I swear I have been to some sites or parts of sites dozens of time, coming at them from slightly different angles each time! Slowly but surely Blogger is becoming less of a mystery. Or at least I thought so until I looked at some of the other blogs people have done and see how much I still haven't looked at or thought about at all! It is definitely an adventure!
January 19, 2005 9:16 AM
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January 19, 2005 9:16 AM
haha oh my.. I do hope you recover from this disease.. tis quite awful.. I have experienced it many a time in my old age.. Perhaps some chicken soup might help? happy bloggin
January 19, 2005 9:30 AM
Oh Nancy and Anony, I'm happy I'm not alone :-) Maybe we could start a self-help support group? We could post our remedies on a new environmentia blog and provide a YG for discussion of the problem, a communal blog for community support, a wiki for I'm not sure what, oh and host quizzes to test knowledge of environmentia with a service like Quia. We could have a MOODLE and simultaneously convene for on-line web-cam chats (hey I'm sure I'm missing some hip terminology here). And we could link all these environments together on several inter-connected homepages of different formats. Any other suggestions...? ;-)
January 19, 2005 5:08 PM
...or you could just take two Wikis and get some rest...
Actually, I think we have all been where you are standing now...and beleive it or not, some of us still get the same experience when a new technology arrives on our block. I am looking at using radio in education now, and I am starting to feel what you must be feeling like with blogging...it's just soooooo......MUCH.
Anyway, this will pass and before long you will be advising and mentoring others in setting up their own blogs and asking yourself why you didnt do this sooner.
Instead of dementia, my theory it that all this usage of the brain muscle just makes it stronger for the long haul. Why, when I turn eighty, I should be really brilliant.
elderbob
January 21, 2005 1:37 AM
I love the 'take two wikis' comment - then I think I need to blog 'em down with a little something to help the digestion.... or maybe just a spoonful of sugar would do it - do you get that sweet substance in blogland?
Anyway Janina, just to say the complete anne Davis chat transcript is in the 'files' section of the weblogging homepage (courtesy of Bee).
You see all these different inter-connected web environments are not only essential to life and regular breathing in the bizarrely thick stratashpere of cyberspace, but they can actaually come in handy!
January 22, 2005 1:53 AM
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