The readings for this week all define varying topics in relation to networked media, and the advantages of blogging as a modern form of organisational learning. The one reading that appealed to me was by John Mason about opening up to the events that seemingly happen around our daily lives.
I can’t help but associate this with Adrian’s poetic metaphor likening the subject as a boat, bobbing and floating in a vast ocean of ideas. Just like Mason’s, it leads me to the importance in being aware of what is going on around us, that there is always a story to write about. Although the reading talks about noticing human behaviour which I believe I am not so incapable of, a particular section about marking these memories to make them accessible for a future instance, truly affected the way I think.
Before, I had no such medium that allowed me to express my individual thoughts about things that I witness in everyday life. But being 
introduced to the blogging process, gives me an opportunity to do so. How does this relate to the concept of noticing and marking? Simply because by noticing the stories that surround me and by marking them within me, I am able to depict my perspective on this very blog.
On the other hand, the reading argues over the immediate recording of a thought as the expending of precious energy reserved for that account. Mason suggests that the actual recording consumes more time than the process of marking, which would then dissipate the essence of the original thought. And so, just as with any other formal skill involved in self-development, it will require me practice that even “professional observers” (i.e. scientists and psychologists) must partake.