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Thursday, April 28, 2005
The contention seems to be true (for me at least) that the number of tasks you have, expand to fill the time you have available.
At this time, I should have a lot more time on my hands than I did before, but the days are packed!
At least now I can actually spend a little moment to look around some of the things on the net that interest me - regardless of why they interest me.
Take Bookcrossing for example. Why should the idea of a bunch of folk all over the world leaving books lying around with the specific intention that some random person will come along, pick them up to read them, interest a non-bookreader like me? I have no idea - but it does!
When I say that I am a non-bookreader, I mean that it only something taken up recently, and I'm not exactly zipping through the Complete Works of Shakespeare - in fact I am ploughing through A Beautiful Mind at present.
However, the idea, born out of a similar exercise in 2003 when Sony (I think) started releasing a number of use-once cameras out into the wild encouraging the finders to take snaps and send them back to Sony along with their details, was developed (sic) by one Ron Hornbaker. Give each book a unique identifier, release them into the world, and wait for the feedback to roll in - and track the books as they are left for one reader and another.
Encourages reading and seemingly random acts of generosity - now there's something we could all do with a little more, no?
.: posted by Ali 4:28 PM
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