There were a lot of great messages today. They were relevant to me and to the times in which I live. One of the talks by Brother Ridd of the Young Men's General Presidency focused a lot on how we use the internet these days. He pointed out that everything we do online leaves tracks. Much like the angels in heaven record our deeds in the Book of Life, the internet records our deeds in a Cyber Book of Life. As he was talking about this and other things I decided that I want to be more intentional about what is written in my Cyber Book of Life.
The internet records your desires... creating your cyber-book of life. #BroRidd #ldsconf
— Mitchell Harris (@mitchkharris) April 6, 2014
Lately a lot of what I do online has fallen into one of two extremes. It is either for work and very structured or it falls into a careless collection of videos watched, tweets and re-tweets, facebook likes, and random articles read on various home pages, aggregators, blogs, and news sites. Basically when I am not using the internet to do work I am vegging out. Much of what I am doing online during my free time is haphazard and based on whatever shinny thing catches my eye. Honestly I am not sure how much of it I control and how much my online habits are being shaped by external sources.
This blog is an effort to change that, and to increase the amount of my online activities that are intentional. For now it is primarily for me, but with time perhaps others will find something useful in my writing as well.
Most likely I will cross post any articles about Delaware events, or politics to Delaware Politics blog where I am still an occasional writer, but this will be the primary hub for what I write online. Hopefully it will be good.
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