kitten in e-land

I have spent the last month exploring social networks and ebooks and publishing and the library of the 21st century and pondering the necessity of having three blogs and a godzillian other ways to interact with the universe and the main thing I have concluded is that my productivity levels have dwindled and I have too many great ideas cluttering up my brain.

Let's see where my trip has taken me:
I have email, of course...and I have had email since 1991.
Facebook-that is how I keep up with family. (In fact, I found out my son got fired today and starts a new job tomorrow). I don't farm, or poke people, or take quizzes. but many of my family, including my mom and my grandchildren, are on facebook.
Live Journal-Live Journal is where I keep up with friends that moved to LJ from usenet. My feelings about Live Journal are hard to explain. I have a lot of "friends" and I am interested in their lives. I care about them and some of them have been a part of my life for a long time. At the same time, I don't spend either enough time on Live journal to keep up with people's day to day, I don't post enough for other people to keep up with me, and there is a lot of distance that interferes with the closeness I used to feel.
Usenet-usenet was my first social networking tool. I still check alt.callahans and rec.arts.tv.soaps.abc every day and a couple of other groups on a semi regular basis. usenet wasn't fancy but it worked. It brought people from different backgrounds and locations together and turned them into communities.
twitter--Twitter is addictive...it doesn't have all the silliness that is attached to facebook and I have been challenged by some of the ideas suggested there. It's not as intrusive as chat or gtalk. I am following 196 people currently...everyone from soap opera stars @KnowJR, @Chrishell7 and @edenriegel to @neilhimself and @MoriahJovan to @yoyology. That's where I am currently getting many of my ideas.
Google Reader- this aggregates most of the blogs and news I read and I have google bookmarks for the rest. If I actually read all of the blogs to which I subscribe and check all of the comics on my list and hit just the headlines and highlights of the news and professional sites on my list my head will be spinning and my circuits will short out due to information overload.
My personal blogs-I have three: Journey of a kitten (my personal journal), Circulating Zen (my library blog) and Womyn Making Waves (the blog I keep for Womyn Making Waves which is a womyn's music show on WEFT)

Just looking back at this list, I wonder how I ever get anything done...at the same time, I am more engaged and interested in my environment and my job than I have been in a very long time.