Thursday, January 31

You are not alone

After almost 40 comments yesterday (and zero the day before) I continue to write my blogtext in English.
In addition to that I received one cellphone photo and two intriguing articles.

The photo came from my youngest daughter Rikke, B.Sc. in Psychology, but at the moment Telemark Skier at Hemsedal, Norway. It could have been presented tomorrow as Sky Watching, but today and tomorrow it will snow and more difficult to see nature as it was yesterday.The first article I received was about Mulitasking and
the second about The Life Cycle of a Blog Post The system map (Click the photo to see graphic better) is described in the article from Wired. You may investigate deeper yourself. However, to rise your interest:
You have a blog. You compose a new post. You click Publish and lean back to admire your work. Imperceptibly and all but instantaneously, your post slips into a vast and recursive network of software agents, where it is crawled, indexed, mined, scraped, republished, and propagated throughout the Web. Within minutes, if you've written about a timely and noteworthy topic, a small army of bots will get the word out to anyone remotely interested, from fellow bloggers to corporate marketeers
38 comments, hundreds of visitors, thousands of tags in databases. You are not alone when blogging.

The Danish text, from Politikken (the first article), many of you have no chance to understand so I give you my version of the topic:
Human Multitasking is:
The ability of a person to perform more than one task at the same time.

This is often seen as a female habit. Men can to the best concentrate on one task at a time. Women can take care of many tasks. May be that is why we meet mostly women as fellow bloggers.
Women check emails, download music, read the news, communicate through texting, talk in cellphone, are driving cars, make dinner and “take care of” children and partners at the same time.
Men have problem enough with swapping TV programs. Agree?
I believe many of my visitors know somebody that may fit into the description.

I do not dare to comment further on the argument in the article saying that multitasking also creates stress-related hormones like cortisol and adrenalin, and thus makes you slower and “dumber”? Waste of energy?

That is why men say Breaks are important. When you calm down, do nothing, do not answer when your partner asks why you only are staring silly and empty into the air - seeing nothing - do not worry.
- Men are only recharging for the next task.

9 comments:

FO - 2 said...

Kankje vi bare skal hylle forskjellene og møtes på midten.....

Så, lenge vi kvinner ikke går i ett med tapeten..... ;)

Jeg kommenterer på norsk - anyway. ;)

Nessa said...

Multi-tasking is bad for you. While you can get lots done you don't enjoy any of it and you only put more pressure on your self to do more. One task at a time is better.

Beautiful daughter.

SandyCarlson said...

I'm with Nessa! Multi-tasking just doesn't work out. There's no satisfaction in being a little present to a lot of things. Better to do one thing at a time a little at a time. I notice a lot of bloggers express shear elation when they have electricity outages and can't be online, etc. They are happy for the freedom to be still.

Thanks for the piece about the life cycle of a blog post. I wondered what the mice that run the machine were doing after I pressed publish!

Your daughter is beautiful. That is a stunning smile.

Marie said...

Haha, kjenner meg igjen her ja. Interessant innlegg dette!

Angåande metoden eg bruker på blomsterbileta mine:
Eg har eit finepix fujifilm digitalkamera, med macroinnstilling. Skulle gjerne hatt speilrefleks. Eg har mykje å henta på det eg har, eg har ikkje sett meg inn i alle funksjonane ennå.

Marie said...

Hei igjen.
Svarar her eg.
Eg synest villsau er litt "mildare" i smaken enn vanleg sau, nesten utan fett. Det er skikkeleg godt.
Her hos oss har me av og til selt, og fått fjorlam (ikkje villsau) heim frå slakteriet. Det er lam som er eit år gamle i staden for eit halvt som dei oftast er når me sel dei. Det er det beste kjøtet synes eg. Det er meir kjøttfylt enn lam og smakar litt mindre "sau" enn vaksne dyr. Må berre koke litt lenger enn lam. Vaksen sau smakar litt for kraftig synes eg. Eg kokar helst lammekjøtet ferskt med løksaus, gulerøtter og kål til, likar det betre enn fårikål. Julafta har me urøykt pinnekjøt av lam.

Anne said...

Kokeblogg ??? Tror jeg har kommet feil jeg gitt !!

Mannfolk kvinnfolk... motsetninger tiltrekker hverandre sies det visst...

Rune Eide said...

It is in reality simple:

Multi-tasking: You start lots of things at the same - and finish none.

Single-tasking: You start one thing at a time - and you finish them - one at a time.

mrsnesbitt said...

Just came across this! very interesting! I would like to use part of the statement if you would agree.
Next wek, in ABC Wednesday.

Would apreciate it.
Thanks
Denise

Rune Eide said...

Multitasking: Starting many tasks at the same time and finish none.

Singletasking: Starting one task at a time and finish one at a time.