Information Overload

Like many/most of the SCF members, I like to read about stamps and stamp collecting almost as much as I like stamp collecting itself.

I regularly check in with the Israel Stamps and Stamp Collecting blogs (both, by the way, very good reads - their links are listed below). I also visit the websites of the Society of Israel Philatelists, the Pitcairn Island Study Group and the American Philatelic Society at least once a week. I read Linn's Stamp News weekly and Scott's Stamp Monthly (now one publication). I even check out the World Stamp News webiste on occasion.

I am considering adding one or more of Meekle's & Stamps or U.S. Stamp News, or their new online, general interest stamp publication, Stamp News Online.

So, the question is, am I overdoing it? Is it possible to overdo it? Is anyone else doing this?

LINKS:

Israel Stamps - http://israelstamps.blogspot.com/se...x-results=46

Stamp Collecting - http://www.stampcollectingblog.com/

World Stamp News - http://www.worldstampnews.com/

Hi Laswabbie,

Since I am not as advanced a collector of you my list of periodicals is shorter, but I spend alot of time in my average day reading about stamps.

You should at least consider the possibility that you're underdoing it. You must be able to carve out a few more minutes otherwise misspent at work...




And let us know how you like the new online publication...I saw some promo for it, but didn't investigate further.

I don't think you can overdo something you like to do.
Dianne

You know, now that I think about it I could blow off work more than the three hours a day I do now! Good thinking!

I am not as advanced, in most ways, as most other SCF members. We've had this discussion before (about the difference between a stamp collector and a philatelist). I do have a wide range of knowledge and experience, but it's not deep like that of t360, Philb, LondonBus1 and others - especially in their primary area of interest. Not by a long shot.

laswabbie,

I want to thank you for pointing out another blog that was on the net. I had no idea that it existed and now that I have signed up for the newsletter, I will always think fondly of you each and every time I'm reading it

Donna

Wow, I didn't know Mekeel's was still in publication. I guess they revived/renamed it after stopping Mekeel's Weekly.

Shortly: no, no, yes (I'm doing it too).

Personally I've noted that despite how many new/additional websites I do add on my follow list, the overall time I use for following stamp related stuff remains pretty constant. As I don't have any kind of time warping device in my closet, my secret must lie in the fact that I do more 'selective reading'.

There's an increasing amount of philatelic material being digitised these days. The Posthorn, for example, which is devoted to Scandinavian stamps, is now online:

http://www.scc-online.org/pharchives.html

I think nearly every issue of The Posthorn has been digitised, starting from the first (which came out in 1945). However, to find issues before 1997 you have to perform a search and that gives you links to the older issues.

Then there's the Rossiya journal archives, for those interested in Russian stamps:

http://ufdc.ufl.edu/rosj

All but the last three years' worth of issues is available free of charge (as is The Posthorn).

In short, there's plenty of philatelic information out there that you're not absorbing, lawswabbie. So how could you be 'overdoing' it?

:-)))

You'll know you're overdoing it when:

You forget what your friends look like

Your children forget what you look like

You see your partner only at meals (for which you have to be summoned repeatedly)

You keep finding you've dropped off to sleep at the keyboard

You can't remember your last enjoyable meal out

. . .

A piture of the last time I overloaded on stamps.

And this picture is the time before the last one.

A picture of my stockbook after my last information overload.

Ha, ha!

Hello

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Fernando Moscoso
Ecuador