Paul Stovell put out the question to bloggers to define how they spend their time. He defines the three areas like this:
Core
These are things I enjoy, care about, and follow as much as I can. When news breaks in these areas, I try to stay on top. I like to think I’m an expert in some of them, and have strong opinions on the rest.Non-core
I find myself working with these things, or have a minor interest in them, but tend to follow announcements occasionally. I have opinions and will probably complain if I don’t like certain aspects of them, but I’m not about to start evangelising them.I don’t care
The only time I spend in these things is to decide whether I care or not. I don’t really use them. I don’t pay much attention to them. I prefer not to work in any of these areas.
So here’s what mine looks like at the moment. I have no doubt that some things will get shifted around over the next 12 months while drinking from the firehose, but it’s good to write down where I stand now.
What’s in your circle of interest?
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Grant,
It’s an interesting post but I would argue that your tag cloud could achieve the same goal. Or, are you thinking that this is more of a statement of intent rather than a statement of the past actions (which is all a tag cloud does).
An idea: as the tag-cloud only looks at everything you have done and does not show changes in topic direction over time. You could write a perl script over your rss xml-doc and pick out the dates and tags. Pump this into a spreadsheet and then your readers could see your tag frequency over time.
An extension would be to find/create a wordpress widget to do this for you.
p.s. I never read the original article as the link wouldn’t work for me. Paul Stovell’s server seemed to be down.
p.p.s. There is no mention of automation at all. Surely it should feature in your circle somewhere?
@Chad – It was more from my head than from my blog.
But a tag cloud is a great idea, and I’d imagine that they would probably match up.
I might have a crack at it one day and see how closely they align.
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