I have been having horrible writer’s block on these posts. Being an “I wanna understand it” person at heart, I’ve spent some time trying to figure out why. Here’s the deal:

1. I feel totally out of my element in this class. I feel like I’m back in 33 RPM-land while everyone else in class is spinning CDs and DVDs.
2. The assignment specifically says we’re not to write personal posts and that’s what I do best.
3. The whole point of this course is to learn about findability and we’re supposed to use the techniques we’re learning to make our blogs more findable. To be honest, with the state of my learning at this point, I’d really rather hide my posts so no one CAN find them. (It’s probably not a coincidence that I titled my blog ‘To Find or Not To Find’.)
4. In short, I feel dumb, not up to the task, and that there’s no way in heck I can play catch up quickly enough to come up with anything important to say that wouldn’t be old hat to everyone else in the class.

So that’s what’s tying me in knots.

Now. I also know what DOES work for me. What works is for me to find something that sincerely interests me. It may well be kindergarten level compared to where everyone else in the class is but if I don’t worry about that and just write about what I learned, I’ll be fine. And I’ll learn stuff. The stuff I most want/need to learn. AND . . . I do want to learn about findability. I have a web application I’m hoping to market some day and heck YEAH I want people to be able to find it. So to be honest, I pity the person who finds this blog but maybe I can think of just using it as a vehicle to learn things I’m sincerely interested in learning.

There. 343 words of sheer personal indulgence to help me break through my writer’s block.