has your brain been re-wired?

I read a communications blog this morning by Kem Meyer. It was on an article that discussed how our brains are re-wiring because of how we're using them. Some paraphrased excerpts:

• The addictive nature of web browsing can leave you with an attention span of nine seconds - the same as a goldfish.

• Our attention span gets affected by the way we do things...we can get into a habit of not concentrating.
  

• Twitter reduces our thoughts to just 140 characters. 12seconds.tv does it in twelve seconds.
  
  
• The average length of the 12 billion online videos consumed by US users in May? 2.7 minutes. The more words you add to a page the more people skim it. Our short attention spans can’t handle long articles and we end up just skipping to the bottom.
  
  
• Shorter blog posts or posts chunked with headlines, bullet points or images get more comments than posts with lengthy blocks of text.
  
  
• Television, the internet and other external stimuli has rewired our brains to make it harder to absorb information that doesn’t come in bite-sized chunks. Our brains are ready to jump to the next stimuli before we’ve fully absorbed the first.

summer

Had a great afternoon at the pool this afternoon with family and friends. I only wish the summer wasn't moving by quite so fast.

what do I want to do with this site?

Just thinking out loud...
Is this site nothing more than a place to occasionally put my thoughts in writing?
Should it be more helpful to current and future subscribers?
I don't know. Until I figure it out I will just keep thinking out loud.

By the way...
Terri is back from Cambodia. I love my wife.

two weeks is a long time

Terri left for Cambodia last Monday. She is having a great time and sounds as if some amazing things are happening. I get an occasional e-mail update which is nice. Anyway, she will be home next Tuesday. My kids have been at various places (aunts, uncles, friends) so I have been a little bored with an empty house. To tell you the truth...being a bachelor doesn't come close to being a husband and father. I don't like an empty house. Two weeks is a long time, but I am glad Terri is having this experience.

happy july 4

We have so much to be thankful for as we celebrate our nations freedom today. Have a very Happy 4th of July!