Just quickly now, because it’s just past lunchtime and I’ve got a ton of work to do…
I found out about the cpd23 event through twitter, probably about a couple of weeks ago. I’d been thinking that I’d really like to get back into blogging – I used to keep a personal blog when I was an undergraduate creative type, and loved the opportunity to wax lyrical about new things I’d find on the internet, and explore the wonderful world of fanfiction.
I started this blog about 3 years ago, when I first began this epic journey towards information & knowledge management – which I like to describe as “Libraries of the Future” (complete with a visionary type pose not unlike Buzz Lightyear with knuckls on hips, a firm elevated gaze towards distant galaxies). If you care to browse the archives, you’ll see that my persistence has been sporadic. Here now, however, is a distributed collaborative event which I hope to get right back onto the horse.
Stay tuned, because as Horatio is often reminded, “There are more things between heaven and earth…”
It does seem like it’s going to be fun, doesn’t it? Hope you get the consistency boost that you’re hoping for.
Hi Joy, thanks for your encouragement! I’ll have to get a cpd23 blogroll going and add you onto it…and make a mental note to comment on your book reviewing blog too!
Hi! I found you through the CPD23 participants list, and liked the name of you blog, so came to say hi! I love your header photo too (though I have no idae what it is!), and am really intrigued by how you came from media arts to information management! Would you consider blogging it for the Library Routes project? http://libraryroutesproject.wikkii.com/wiki/Main_Page
Hi Bethan, what a marvellous stroke of serendipity! I’ve recently come across the Library Routes project – and was just recommending it to a call out from an Australian librarian on twitter about wikis that librarians use (and I’m considering myself a librarian-type, rather than actual librarian). It’s a great project, and there are many fascinating hours to be spent reading about peoples’ different trajectories. I shall endeavour this week to blog about my library route.
The header indeed deserves it’s own post – but to satisfy your curiosity, briefly it’s an historic Chinese astrological map – full map on the left with a close up on detail on the right. The funny slinky shape is an image of a new kind of star/ cosmic object – a pulsar showing magnetic field lines (the brown slinky, which is cut away) and radio beam in green. It’s significant for me because this star was ‘discovered’ using the radio telescope local to the town I grew up in – Parkes, NSW. The actual design and image manipulation was done by my wonderful partner, who is particularly skilled in that area! The two images combined represent the diversity in how we as humans represent and understand ourselves in the greater context of the universe, while giving a hat tip to the mapping aesthetic of new media art. Also, I am fond of science fiction.