Thursday, February 7, 2008

Research or wanking?

I've offered to participate in several group initiatives at work...

Now my research is kind of blending together --in the midst of researching a topic I find an interesting link that would benefit me to explore more for one of the other initiatives. At first I'd launch it in another tab and then follow-up later. The problem with following-up means I spend hours just reading, but not actually accomplishing anything. Not a great thing to do in a meritcracy.

The best tool that allows me to defer follow-up is social bookmarking with del.icio.us.

This leads to another issue --there end up being so many similarly tagged items to explore. Off I go into the depths of the internets, getting lost in the tubes.

Is this research or just wanking?

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