Wednesday to Thursday 1 AM
As I bring up the ‘ half-century’ on Mind Pilot, I am opening myself up more and more to the concept of social networking on the Internet, but still wondering to what extent it will actually increase the number of useful visitors to my main website, and whether any social contacts made online will actually really amount to anything. I know that there are many other people out there who use the Internet to help them cope with a wide variety of medical challenges, but do I want to use the Internet to find more business, to find friends, or just to find people with whom I can share similar experiences? To be honest, I don’t really know, but I have recently found that a website like twitter is even more addictive than Facebook used to be when I first signed up to that. But I’m still trying to work out what it is overall point is — yes, it is a very quick way of sharing information about all kinds of different topics, but there is no focus to it, and it seems to be another way of just blurting out about anything to anyone. You know what they say about empty vessels making the most noise.
I still think I’ve got plenty of things that are worth saying, and I just have to go around finding the right place to say them. Perhaps it is a simple case of splitting my online time into three different areas — myself as an individual, which I managed through my own personal blog, my travel website and accompanying blog which is my main professional activity, and this Mind Pilot blog, where I hope I can share thoughts my about the different mood variations I’m going through.
There is also a fourth dimension that I want to move into, and that is my interest in architecture, and also in doing maps and drawings which relate to various different buildings. Some of this can be due to be added as content on my travel website, but I think there is a difference between travelling as a tourist, having an academic interest in architecture, and then ultimately putting buildings and other structures together, an ambition I have never lost sight of. In the meantime, my colleague has just told me that this month should see a slight revenue increase over February, which is a better sign than the fall in traffic that I had seen earlier in the week, so for now, I will carry back on with constructing my presence in cyberspace. Who knows where this will take me next.