It dawned on my today as my internet domain name renewal reminders came that there was actually a time when I can remember not really caring much about my digital personna. It was cool simply to have a hotmail address or an e-mail alias that centralised all of your mail.<\/p>\n
Today is really different.<\/p>\n
In addition to my own website – which admitted I don't keep up to date it is just to prevent others to taking the domain name – I also have several 'rodneycornelius' domains that I register and am just too lazy to point to my main address. Maybe some day…some day…<\/p>\n
In addition to websites, now there is a need to maintain facebook and linked in….and even friendster and myspace (even if they aren't popular, then I have a presence there until they die out).<\/p>\n
Then of course there is my main blog here at LiveJournal, not to mention Tumblr.<\/p>\n
And for good measure, photos using Flickr, Fotki, and Picassa (but primarily Fokti).<\/p>\n
So keeping all of these things going all require work and effort. And it just amazes me that 15 years ago we wouldn't have even thought about it.<\/p>\n
So in some respects, I feel ahead of the curve…I am in the age demographic that is supposed to be anti-technology and yearing for simple things like wired telephones, record players, and typewriters. But I actually like and have a passion for new technology.<\/p>\n
Where I fall behind is that in rushing to adopt all of these new things, I don't really put the energy into any of them that they truly deserve. For the moment, I am okay with that. But I guess at some point I have to either select fewer ecosystems to participate in, or wait for another tool like TweetDeck that can help even more with digital presence management.<\/p>\n
That typewriter is looking awfully good right now…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It dawned on my today as my internet domain name renewal reminders came that there was actually a time when I can remember not really caring much about my digital personna. It was cool simply to have a hotmail address or an e-mail alias that centralised all of your mail. Today is really different. In … Continue reading Ahead of the curve yet behind the times, digitally speaking<\/span>