Week without the web

Posted on August 25, 2003 @ 09:36 in General

I'm not going to surf the web for a week. I'm not going offline or on a holiday, I'm just not going to use the web this week.* It's too easy, I've noticed since I got back from holiday, to get distracted when looking up something on the web. At times it's very useful to have a mind that works well along the paradigmatic axis, but on the web it's too easy to keep moving sideways and not getting anywhere. Seductive too. Everything's always only a click away.

A week without the web then. Nice alliteration there, a Week Without Web. Looks sexy too if you write WWW, even though it's not easy to pronounce in English (easier in Dutch: way-way-way... maybe I should trademark it). Instead of the web, I'll turn my attention to reading print books and articles, and writing some of my own. For distraction I suppose I'll just have to look out the window. I'll blog about it too, if that proves necessary. It's not like I'm not going to be away from my computer much, since I'll be working as usual. If you feel like it, send me an e-mail, I might actually send you a reply rather quickly this week :-)

* A small qualifier. Like I said, I'll be working and writing as usual, so if I need to access the library or find someone on the university net, I'll still fire up the browser, but I'll control my trigger finger when moving over my bookmarks or other enticing links.

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  1. Are you sure you want to do that? If I tried to quit Webbing all at once, I'm sure I would get the shakes :)

    Posted by angel on August 26, 2003 @ 00:54

  2. Good Luck! - But I see you are compensating by reading - what 5 books at a time? lol

    Posted by Tracy Kennedy on August 28, 2003 @ 18:20

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