Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Purpose of this blog

I am using this blog to begin my thesis. My thesis will explore new media technologies, like this here blog and wikis. I might touch briefly on podcasting, RSS, social networking, tags, folksonomy, clouds, edge content, co-creation, citizen-marketing, microformats and more - but those topics I will remain mostly on the backburner unitl my dissertation.

I'll be writing and publishing posts that:

1) Explore the very method of getting started and using a blog to generate the focus (possibly first chapter) of my thesis- basically a meta-investigation of my work methods and the tools used;

2) Define what problem (or unfulfilled need) I am investigating;

3) Explore, synthesize and ultimately articulate a solution to that problem or a fulfillment of the unfulfilled need and;

4) Uses a hybrid personal and professional 'voice' to communicate.

In the next post I'll be posting a list of readings (not all of them) that I intend to learn from. I do not intend to use all as resources in my thesis or dissertation, but I'll learn from all of them so they're valuable.

Monday, August 28, 2006

happy birthday!

frosty the snowman shouted that when he came to life. but this blog is not a snowman.