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Like everyone over past few days, I too was glued to the Internet and TV closely following the US presidential elections. The results were a little surprise to anyone save the most ignorant and imbecile of us, but there was something interesting that I observed especially on the last day of the election. If you are a regular digg or twitter user, you might have observer that they logged a record number of users on the last day. Digg for obvious reasons but twitter was a surprise.
Unlike digg, twitter is just a place where people can share “what they are doing” with their friends online but how does it relate to new president? It could be that people curious to find out the results, logged on to internet and eventually ended up posting an update on twitter. Or may be it was just that they felt too strongly about it and wanted to express it somwhere.
Whatever, the reasons might have been, it does highlight the fact that people use internet a lot not only as a reference tool, but also for keeping up with current events and news. Not surprsingly, the amount of information available on the internet is astounding and this can sometimes be very …ummm.addictive!
If you are in a job that requires using a computer or the internet for your daily work, you know what I’m talking about.
What starts with simply checking current news events and stock markets and maybe sports news once or twice a day, slowly evovles into an addiction. Before you get your morning cup of coffee, you want to check your mails, your face book account and then slowly sip away that coffee with digg, cnn, newser, newsvine etc. And it doesnt end there. You then subscribte to news feeds of tens of other websites trying to spot news even before it breaks! Not only that, you refresh your feeds and keep all those news sites and blogs open in firefox tabs in background hoping to break breakign news to your friends as it develops! It doesn’t even matter what it is or even if it interests your or your dog at all - as long as it is fresh and breaking, you wanna know it! And then the worst (or the best happens). You suddenly start realizing that your friends and colleuges in office are goobers who know nothing about whats going around and then you start skeeing people like you online and in a few weeks time, you have a new dad, a new mom and new pet - all online.

If that sounds familiar, welcome to the club! You are an information addict! It does sound cool - you know things that your friends can only dream of and you know it before their grandparents did and it does help you in a better living. I’m information addict..and I’m proud of it.

cucumberboy General

Indeed I decided to start blogging yesterday, it already seems like a challenge. No, no, no..not because of time or should I say, lack of time, it is because sometime you just don’t know what to write!
Literally speaking, a blog is a web log - first person narrative and unlike a diary entry which is usually logged at the end of the day, a blog is usually an ongoing narrative - updated every hour or so. Although these days, a blog has come to mean almost everything from a daily published article, to a note, to personal and professional marketing tool/advertising board and a medium to express yourself, a vent for exposing corruption and politics and almost everything that you can imagine.
So what am I going to write about? I envision my blog as - ah well- the first person narrative of my life! I guess I’ll be posting small bits and bytes of my daily life and not maybe a few kilo bytes of opinions and cogitations of things I feel strongly about!
Oh wow! I think I’ve finally figured out what I’ll be blogging about!

cucumberboy General