07.28.08
Thirsty?
Today while showing a relative what my iPhone can do, I was asked how long it took me to learn it all and I was surprised that I couldn’t come up with a decent answer.
Do you just count the time playing with the device or add all the time it took to learn how to use things like Web browsers and email clients too?
Living a digital lifestyle is such a cumulative thing and new concepts and services pop up every day. If you aren’t familiar with blogging, what do you make of something like Twitter?
How do you keep up?
Some describe it as drinking from a firehose but that’s not quite right.
It’s more like drinking from a fire hose connected to a moving fire truck. If you stop to take a breath, you have a lot of catching up to do.
I actually spend quite a bit of time per day reading magazines like Wired or visiting tech oriented Web sites (lifehacker.com, engadget.com, gizmodo.com, etc…) just to keep up. That doesn’t even count actually playing with and evaluating the technology to see if it’s something useful.
What do you do to keep up? What are your favorite sources for tech info?
Nathan said,
August 3, 2008 at 4:00 pm
/. baby! Usually the topics they are discussing are already in my tech geek radar. However, from time to time I will be directed to some new-to-me technology or concept and I end up wasting significant portions of my day reading and researching said topics.