Getting things done

Recently, like Ouriel, I’ve become aware that I’m getting the most recent news by social channels.

It seems that the prorogation of news through social channels like Twitter and blogs is lightning fast and reaches the masses far faster than “traditional” news’ sites (I won’t even mention newspapers and TV).

For instance: Today the world was informed about the Microsoft-Facebook deal. Initially I got the low down from Webware post @ 16:00 followed by a Twit from Scobleizer @ 21:15PM and finally officially confirmed as posted on Techcrunch @ 22:30.

With social media it’s just a matter of following the right sources. Faster, almost as reliable media … is it worth it ? most definitely!

It seems that, aside from being the name of my blog, “Getting things done” also refers to an action management theory, abbreviated as GTD by The David Allen Company. My blog is in no way related to GTD.

While being a bit presumptuous, the name is intented to reflect the content of my blog, which documents my activities towards getting some things of mine done.

I’ve unleashed my personal site under medovs.com. It’s main functionality right now is to link all the different sections I have published. Currently it includes my blog, phash and a project I’ve done several years ago on a computer graphics course in the Technion.

The layout is still raw and I do plan to improve it over time. I’ll probably start with making a decent logo. The most important style decision I’ve made until now, though, was to color my site black (like my blog). I find white tiresome for the eyes after staring for a while, while black is much more soothing (and dramatic).

First post right here, come and get it.

The first thing one ought to do when creating a blog is pick a name. In my opinion the name should reflect the future content of the blog, all the while keeping it short and catchy.

Since I’m currently juggling the following:

• Getting a new bigger apartment
• Day time work
• My pet project

Well, one can understand why I didn’t have any specific title in mind. What I eventually thought of was “Getting things done“, it’s both generic and reflects my current state of mind. As you can see it’s definitely not fulfilling the two criteria I’ve defined above, therefore it’s likely to change over time.

That said, I do expect this blog to have a technology orientation (rather than just me spilling my guts about who knows what), since I do have an ulterior motive for writing this blog: I would like to have a place where I can record all the different technologies I’m tackling and all the issues I’m fumbling through, hopefully arousing interesting discussions around them that will allow you & me to see different perspectives.

Anyways, hope I’ll have fun writing it and you reading it.

- |)ov.