Flaneur

Have I become a Flaneur of technology? How did THAT happen? Awake before 5 a.m. this morn and my mind was on full-power reviewing some of the interesting facts that came out of a Video conference/chat last evening. The LIB3 "gathered" and some had visual and sound, some had sound sometimes, one could see and one could hear, but typed to communicate. It all worked very well. Speaking of technology ... (!!)
I learned the word Aggregator last night. I roughly knew the meaning of the term outside technology, but learned about its application within. Constituting or amounting to a whole, total, to come together, sum of its constitute parts (Dictionary.Com)
In technology, for instance, a person can gather together in one spot, information as it is added to another location. So, for instance, the LIB3 instructor can gather all student BLOG posts to one location; it saves her the hassle of going "into" posts to keep up! Very cool. I suppose this was what a Clipping Collector used to do for news about a specific celebrity. Comb all printed text for reference to a specific person - and now technology, in many sophisticated ways, can do the same thing!

flaneur \flah-NUR\, noun:One who strolls about aimlessly; a lounger; a loafer. (Dictionary.com)

Can one become a flaneur of technology? Can one be a techno flaneur: always on the Internet, always learning more, always grazing and roaming and ranging over the hills, valleys and peaks of technology? Inference of never becoming quite expert, but interested vaguely and always on the move. I feel as if I am in technology-flaneur mode and the aimless lounging and loafing is the learning - try this. Experiment here. Invest some energy here. Go ahead - you can do it! It is the aimless strolling through technology that has some amazing outcomes for my learning. My aimless strolling in the last eight weeks has opened up my eyes, ears, and mind to just how much is going on out "there."

http://www.attensa.com/products/readers/overview/?gclid=CL_n_fSS3I8CFRsIWAodqm5y7w