Jay's Interface for Working & Learning

When I turned my focus to informal learning, I started this second blog for exploring informal examples, memes, experiments, results, and related matters. Note the "Last 100 posts" entry in the menu. I find this a lot more useful than a list of months.

This page on my wiki lists links for common destinations and personal places. This is my Firefox default home page. I could do something similar with iGoogle but it wouldn't let me do whatever I feel like. The icons link to Flickr, Gmail, Google Calendar, and TV schedules. I may add a few more, but since this page is entirely for me, I'm in not in any particular hurry. This page is a descendant of the Internet Time Jump Page that pre-dates blogs.

This is the main page of the Internet Time Wiki. A few pages, this one for example, are locked, but most are editable, and I welcome comments and suggestions. The main sections of the wiki are Feeds, Keepers, and Informal Learning.

The Keepers page is for items with legs. Several years ago I maintained topic pages like those listed under "Inquiries." I've become much more flexible, making better use of Del.icio.us and its brethren. Important documents come before links to some of my material here.

Informal learning gets its own wiki page although this page is about the topic, not the book. I'm slowly putting chapters here to share my thoughts. Note the poster, resources, articles, and recommended tools.

News, bloggeral, and transitory information reside on the Feeds page. I find it easier to scan the listings of RSS feeds than to sort through my Google Reader. Since the listings are produced by Google Reader, it's easy to swap feeds in and out.

My bookshop is somewhat hidden. I find "tip jars" unprofessional. If you want to help pay for this site or pay a tiny fraction of Jay's beer budget, buy your books here or from any Amazon widget on the site.

If you really want to make my day, next time you're buying something expensive from Amazon, click Jay's link to Amazon to get there.

The Internet Time Community is the newest item here, having opened in March 2007. We now have 175 members, about a dozen of whom do most of the talking. The community is hosted on Ning.

Ning is a very cool service. Non-technical to set up and maintain. User-friendly. Free. Pay us a visit. (Sign up not required just to look.)

This blog is now in its eighth year. I post entries here about whatever pops into my head, be it professional or personal. Many people "know me" through reading my blog.

I learn from my blog. My blogging is akin to walking around with a camera in my pocket. With the camera, I'm continually scanning the scene for interesting shots. This keeps me alert and appreciative. When I don't have the camera, I don't see as much.

My blogging is spontaneous. I just hop into whatever I've been thinking, usually bringing two or three ideas together and adding a unifying image.

Knowing that I'm going to write something is like having the camera with me. It keeps me curious. When I see something new, I immediately question it. Is this true? Is this a blog item?

Learning from blogging happens afterward, too, when you dig back through old posts, looking for something; I end up reflecting on what I find and sometimes marveling at my innocence only a few years before.

I enjoy answering comments but don't get enough of them to amount to much. This is gradually shifting. I routinely get 1.3 comments/post.

Blogging is like Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences: some people are born to it; others are not. So we shouldn't foist it off on others because some of us get so much out of it. Lurkers are welcome; they are the only type of readers the authors of books have.

Del.icio.us is my keeper of bookmarks. It's also a great way to research a topic. You can usually track from a topic to an expert in a matter of minutes. This is like reading over someone's shoulder at warp 9.

Most of the photos on my blogs reside here. Also, photos from trips are here somewhere.

This is my home page. It's my "advertisement." This is where I direct prospects and new acquaintances.