Binary Bonsai

…yet I carry a reporter’s notebook. This is all 43 folders fault to be quite honest (well, I’ve had a larger moleskin before, but I didn’t use it it quite the same manner).

It’s sort of like my iPod’s. I’ve had my 3G iPod for a good while, but since bought a Shuffle at E3, I almost haven’t used the 3G iPod!

Portability is king!

When I step out the door in the mornings, I have my Z600, 5 keys in a keyring, a stealthblack creditcard holder (cash is so last year), my Shuffle (around my neck, iPod and wires under my t-shirt) and my reporter’s notebook and a pencil. All on me. No bags.

And while my keys annoy me because of their annoying shapes and my Z600 is just a tad too big for its own good, I can nonetheless move around unencumbered with all of these things and technology at my disposal at any given time.

Back to the notebook. I actually use it! That’s right, I didn’t think anyone actually carried these things around and used them! But I’ve come to rely a great deal on writing down ideas, keywords and making sketches of whatever I come up with in the spur of the moment.

And I think, because I now always have this option, I’m more likely to follow through on whatever thoughts I have during the day. In fact, many a K2 idea came to be in my little notebook.

It took a dozen or so pages before I had taught myself what I should and shouldn’t write down. Also it takes just a little time to figure out that I had to use a pencil and not a pen, and that entirely temporary notes don’t belong in there, only things with a bit more longevity.

I can’t pinpoint it. But for some reason I can’t bring myself to write in snippets and keywords on the computer as easily as I can in my notebook. On the computer it’s as if I have to fill out words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs and so on.

I found something analog that works better! So what if it’s tragically hip…

A few weeks back, around the time I went to E3 actually, I wrote down a few thoughts on how I could expand my online empire help my fellow Internet patrons.

One of the ideas I got, was to create a reblog of sorts, aimed at well written entries and articles. A noteworthy list for the rest of the world so to speak. Garret Dimon popped up with Notable Words a little after that, and I’ve been a regular reader ever since.

The difference between what he’s doing with Notable Words and what I’d like to do though, is he points to a blog, excerpting usually a single entry, where as I am more interested in picking up individual, thought-provoking entries and articles from around the blogosphere. Writings that have longevity, depth, a striking clarity or cats.

Actually, maybe just cats.

Anyway, another thought I had, was to make it a group-blog of sorts, though I’m not sure if I could relinquish the control. We’ll have to see.

As soon as I’m done with K2, I’m going to write a manifesto (uuh), and then I’ll see if I can’t get that up and running.

The deathcries of a podcasting application all over can be heard, just over the drooling of a certain Michael Heilemann, who thinks some of the new features are pretty damn cool!