I love audiobooks and podcasts, so when Regina Public Library started offering downloadable audiobooks I was really excited. But the selection is poor, especially for the type of business and technology books I read and the fiction is rather sparse too. Their CD collection is better at this point even though you'll have to wait months for a popular title.

It's certainly the way to go though, and I'd use it a ton if the selection was better.

I'm looking forward to your interview on Spark to see whether the major publishers are helping or blocking libraries as they try to get into digital works. Based on the selection at our library, I have to assume 'blocking'.

Too funny. Or perhaps, too sad. That photo gets me revved up on many levels...

I'm constantly revising my systems for managing all this information overload. Several thousand unread articles in my RSS reader, hundreds of emails per week, 50 podcasts waiting to be listened to, twitter streams, a stack of books (both e and paper) etc. etc.

Sure it's self induced, but it sure is better than rabbit ears and single newspaper. I'm interested in a lot of stuff and it's great to connect with people who are the same way. Even 5 years ago it wasn't possible.

It's easy to stay on top of everything once you realize you don't need to stay on top of everything. Twitter is for those short escapes during the day -- if I miss 1,000 tweets it's not the end of the world. My RSS reader has a nifty 'Mark all as read' button -- Seth and Hugh won't mind if I miss one or two posts, will they?

My only firm rule is with email. Empty that gmail box every single night. Gotta get it to zero. Try not to think about the 100 starred messages that need my attention -- if they're important, they'll show back up in my inbox eventually.

If I had to cut it all out, I could do it. But it would hurt. It would hurt like if your parents moved you across country when you were 13 and you had to start making new friends again. But you couldn't because your parents didn't move to a city -- they moved to The Bush. So you'd talk to animals and give the trees names and carry around a small flat rock and call it an iPhone. And you'd finally have time to write that perfect book of poems but it would be all mixed up -- poems about squirrels on Facebook and the fish using Twitter (but they'd call it Bubbls.) Yeah, something like that. It would hurt a lot...