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Week 5, 2012
Joensuu, Finland

After deciding to stick to this blog, one thing I want to achieve is to organize its posts. When I started boggling I was clueless of my own posts: how would they look like?, about what would I write?, which one will be my style?, etc. Consequently, the idea to organize posts was not even contemplated.

To my surprise but sometimes I require to find something I have posted and to find it is tricky. I am bad with keywords, writing titles, well I am not good on writing in general (as I have complain so much).  Nevertheless, it will be useful to find a way to organize myself, and keep on using the technologies we profess are “good for learning”.  So, for some time I have been thinking how to organize the blog, I did sketches, lists, but I haven’t implement a thing. However, as this spring I will be given some lectures and I want to use my blog as part of my memoir of this learning process then I need to organize my blog now.

In this weekend I put hand on organizing my blog. These are the steps I followed:

  1. I found a good link explaining the difference between category and tags.
  2. As I had been thinking in keywords for a long time now, so after the previous step I  wrote a table with the keywords I though will be relevant.
  3. I went through my existent 167 posts and label them according to the table.
  4. While labeling I discover some keywords I should use which were no there, and others which I do not want to use in the future.

The process, besides to take time and energy, was actually productive in diverse ways:

  • I research myself.
  • I discover many blogs are only of bla, bla, bla, bla (~babbling). Seeking for comfort, I believe. I want those to be improve somehow.
  • I saw myself over time. It is amazing to see how time passes by fast and we learn to think/walk/talk so slowly.
  • It got some kind of “framework” for future blog activity.
  • My research and my blog are extensions of me.

My blog is inspired on some mothers’ blogs. My research is kind of my abstract baby. It is clear for me that my abstract baby cannot be blog exactly the same way as mothers document the life of their offsprings. But both type of babies have a developing process, and trigger experiences that can be shared. Blogging is a way of sharing and documenting. Let’s see how it goes the 2012 wave of this blog!

The result of this work is in the following two lists: categories and tags.

PS. From now on, I do not think to review again as I did this time all the previous posts…. no time for it.

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While digitalizing some videos, which sometimes contain really slow parts, then I have to do something in parallel, something that still lets my attention on the digitalization. Then I am fixing my browser’s bookmarks.

Jeees!

Let me tell you how it works. I have my normal classification folders, which are mostly ok. BUT it exists one folder call new, that means when I am in a hurry to shut down my machine, and I can’t decide if I should keep that link or not, or if I keep it where should go?. For these cases is the section of “NEW” is a TEMPORAL folder for further decision, as a buffer.

But in 5 years more less (according to the historical records on that buffer) I haven’t really classify anything. OH GOD! That is a work, a complete personal digital archeology (which of course is not finished). However, it has been interesting to observe my different search focuses on diverse periods of time. And some links I am happy to find 😉

This work is still in process, but how much trash a human being can collect in its life span, or at least me even that I try to do not collect that much, I fail on that quiet often. And now a days not only physically also digitally!