Daily Movement

Most weblogs are rehashes and little-value-added commentary about
current news. Current doesn’t mean wordworthy, relevant or useful to
others. If you look at the value added by most commentary, it’s very
little.

The same can be said of news sites. Newswire articles and business
releases (source material) get replicated and rehashed over many
different sites with no value added.

I prefer reading source sites or ones that provide a useful (to me) filtering function. So, where is the utility? Consider the depiction:

What can you do to provide more relevant information to a passer-by?

• Maintain a theme and if not, at least categorize everthing. Random is as random does.
• Post information in the briefest form as possible. Most people don’t care about what you were eating when you wrote your posting.
• Think twice before posting. Don’t rehash single bits of other information unless you’re adding significant insight. Remember, if your reader has never read slashdot, salon, cnn, the new york times or the economist before, they probably will after you’ve referred to it once. Sending the same info their way just adds noise to your channel.

Added Jan 8, 2005:

Check this commentary out: http://mama.indstate.edu/users/bones/WhyIHateWebLogs.html

Think about what you spend your attention on every day — whether it’s a fleeting few seconds looking at a billboard ad on the freeway or an hour reading a book.

What you attend to or wish you did but don’t says much about you. What you aren’t aware of also gives insight.

Try making a mental note of what you think about.

There are only 16 waking hours in the day. What do you attend to?

In the summertime, people should work from 9pm to 5am, eat
“dinner”, socialize until 11am and then sleep from 11am to 7pm.

Benefits of this behavior is that during the hours of the highest
energy use (noon-6) because of air conditioning, computing, lighting,
etc. we reduce consumption because all we are doing is sleeping.

Today I fell asleep at 7pm instead of 11pm. I’m sure it was
because it was a sunny 90 degree day. The sun sapped me of a few
hours of energy.