finding focus

I’ve been playing around with this blog for quite some time now and I still haven’t found a particular focus.  There are way too many things that I think about and way too many things that I do.  There are way too many ideas that I find interesting and way too many things that I want to do.

I think I should document some of them and find the common thread, even though I think I know what that thread is, it’s too nebulous.  I think I need to develop some coherence, so when people ask ‘what’s this blog about?’, the answer is more than ’stuff’.

So what AM I interested in?

1. Learning
2. Technology
3. Technology for facilitating learning (AKA learning technology)
4. Internet technologies (the shiny)
5. Things that go beep in the day
6. Things that make connections easier (although I am less than likely to use those connections)
7. Following trends
8. Not necessarily ‘being first’ but ‘being there’
9. Facilitating learning
10. Learning how people learn
11. Learning how people learn about technology
12. How people share ideas
13. Soaking up the wealth of information/knowledge that’s out there
14. The intersection between what I know and what you know
15. Everything around that intersection
16. Things that prevent people from learning (the flip side of filtering technologies)

So with all that, you’d think I’d have plenty to say.  Why am I not saying it?  Possibly because of points 6, 7 and 8.  The connections between what we know (point 14), individually, are endlessly fascinating.  But, it seems that I have these whole conversations in my head, vicarious conversations, and I never get around to writing them down.

I wonder if there’s a plug in for wordpress that can take vague thoughts and make them into a coherent post.  Now that’s something I’d be ‘first’ to!

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