Anyway

It’s all too easy to get sucked in to checking your Twitter and your Plurk and your Brightkite and your Facebook and whatever other services you use; in my case I can claim I need to know something about how these things work for a project. In theory I’m making useful observations of how people interact with services and what value they get from them, but in reality I spend a bit more time watching and reading than is needed for that. It’s very easy to follow tweeted links and then find myself web-surfing, just like it was in the early days of the web, when we all watched what came up next on NCSA Mosaic’s “What’s New” page. So it’s a little ironic that John tweeted a link that made me more aware of the slippery slope of online distractions, and potential ways to combat them. Thanks, John!