Since installing the Google Search tool on this site, I have started searching through weblog land to see what people are doing with their weblog sites. Some are imaginative, others seriously collecting links on particular topics, some writing serious themes and then there is the mass of junk collections everywhere.

Since beginning to be a weblog wanderer, I have begun asking myself the question as to why we are all so busily logging. My personal enquiry led to to understand exactly why I do it. To me, the world of knowledge managment, software tools, new ways of doing things, invention and plain doodling provides me with a playgroun where I can test ideas, develop concepts and have some readers along to provide feedback. I know when something hot is happening when I see the readers coming by the droves. Then, when they melt away I know that my experiments are simply not interesting.

I do not know that it is simply a matter of writing better as Mahoney suggests, it is a matter as to whether you have something to say, to demonstrate, or whether you have been busy to add some real value to the wealth of knowledge out there. For me, it is about playing with the tools, building information along the way and promoting the idea that there is a new way of making meaning that has little to do with literacy and lots to do with techancy -- the new way of making meaning since we have adopted electronic devices connected across a large-scale network.

The latest interest in the world of technacy centers on rapid text construction techniques. I am now employed as a writer and getting sick and tired of composing texts at 7,000 words per day. So, using all the tools I could muster, I devised a way to make my job easier. Download a copy of the book for yourself and see what I mean. Even this weblog I am now writing took me half the time as I used text chunks rather than writing this from complete scratch. Anyway, now that we have the tools to store and retrieve larger items that letters and word, why not build text from text chunks? 

Copyright a problem? How about it if I build you are text chunk library? And give you the right to copy any text from the library as long as you pay me a fee of say, $25 per month for access to any number of chunks. Drop me an email and tell me what you think. And if you liked my text on Rapid Text Construction, let me know too.  

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