Master of none!
I’m haunted, you
know. Haunted, by RSS feeds, from sites that I monitor, taunting me with their
unread status. And for the bulk of them, the magical “mark all as read” button doesn't work, as I need to go through them all and check if there’s anything relevant
for work….and work covers a LOT of topics!
Some
of the legal topics I need to be aware of for work reasons (for Scottish, English,
Welsh, Irish and European jurisdictions, where appropriate):
banking, finance, environment and pollution, construction, tax, corporate rescue and insolvency, planning, commercial litigation, employment, planning, and intellectual property.
And all their many, many sub-areas!
Library
topics I need to be aware of for professional reasons:
Add
all these areas together, and throw in varying sources that constantly churn info out, from
Government sites, to newspapers and blog, and I'm always running just to
stay still. You know it’s bad, when you look at your feed reader and catch
yourself thinking “oh, there’s ONLY 200 unread items, that’s good!”
But
then I get an enquiry, and come back to the feeds an hour later, to find it’s
now 300 unread items. And another enquiry means it creeps up further…and by
Monday, with the 2 days of the weekend meaning I’m leaving it untended, it’s often
800-900 unread items.
And I’m
going on holiday now…when I come back, after a total of 10 days away from my feed
reader, will it have snowballed out of control? I know I’ll be faced by Greader
with that horrible taunt: “1,000+ items” in the bold that means unread. Mean, mean Greader!
Although, on the good side, I am pretty well informed and quite aware of the basics of almost anything to do with libraries, and commercial law in the UK...to the extent where I sometimes think that information is pushing other, more important stuff out of my head. Like the lyrics of 1980s pop songs.
Altogether now: Ah-gah-DOO-DOO-DOO, push pineapple, shake a tree....
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If there's a crucial nugget of info that I miss in doing so, I guess I'll find out about it some other way. If I don't, it can't have been too crucial in the first place. (At least that's the theory...)
Sometimes life's too short to worry about these things (or so I desperately keep telling myself!!)