OK so now that it's Christmas season the time pressure is ratcheted up, and the question remains of whether this is worth my precious time, if my son isn't going to join in, learn a bit, or help me out. He's free to do as he washes; I've pressured him a bit, but I knew going in that it might take or it might not, and it didn't, so, after about three or four weeks, I thought, I'm doing it for me. and I renamed it "Tom's", on both of them.
So now, it's about 10 weeks, and I still put about 20 minutes a night into it, and look forward to it; I find it relaxing & edifying, though I don't really have the time. Some of my free-time pursuits, like my poetry have gone a little untended. New Yorkers sit around the house unread. I sometimes, as now, do this with my eyes half shut.
I hang on here for dear life, and because I like it. It has the potential to be a collective. It has the potential to be a resource on music and language and all the cool stuff Africa has to offer. It has the potential to be a model for programming, coding to make simple stuff look cool and inviting and even play with some online advertising (I have a whole system of writing to show off)...
I have two other friends who are aggregators, and I know one guy in the esl field who has a fascinating setup; I believe he gets the machine to do his aggregating. I'm not sure how he does it. Might be worth looking into. As it is, I don't really even have the time to read the articles I aggregate, but I can also say that 6 articles in about 20 minutes (tonight's haul) isn't an enormous waste of time; it feels productive in many ways, even if I don't get to read the entire articles. One gets used to the ebb and flow of stories, the power players on the continent, the places one goes to find news. I still welcome others to join me. It's a learning experience.
