First day of the rest of this blog's life
From the time I made my last post to now, Blogger has changed irrevocably. I don't know what this will mean for my compositions and my postings. I hope my stolen and altered design scheme remains intact.
I've been inspired to take up blogging again by two graduate school colleagues who are also my friends (the two things aren't synonyms, usually to the determent of all involved).
The blogs are located here:
Mixed Messages
and here
The Wandering Jew
I'm not revealing their names because they both seem to want a certain degree of anonymity and that's fine. I like to think that the latter got his title from a line in a Simon and Garfunkel song. I make no guesses about the former's.
I don't know this blog will become, but I hope I'll be able to make occasional posts that are like those that I made before -- that is to say things that have some depth and relevance to a somewhat medium-sized group of people.
I had a blog about the very beginnings of my research on the car radio. Maybe I'll continue that here (Mixed Messenger has a post where he talks about talking about his thesis though I don't know how serious he is). I still care about car radios, despite evidence that the manufacturers of the devices in the 1930s (like William Balderston of Philco) didn't.
I also care about other things, now. Like disciplinarity (though my advisor prefers to talk about post-disciplinarity, but he's older than I am). [Sidebar: Firefox doesn't recognize my chosen spelling of advisor/adviser.]
I started to read Annette Markham's Life Online: Researching real experience in virtual space tonight. It's an autoethnography about writing an autoethnography about online experience. It's a good book on the subject, I think. I don't know anything about autoethnography. The experiences I've had with it before Markham's book made the methodology seem like little else but the kind of material one might find on This American Life. It has its place, of course, but I wonder about the overall usefulness of it at times. But I research car radios so I don't know how much room I have to talk about scholastic relevancy.
Enough of this. I've got to get ready for Jaime time.
I've been inspired to take up blogging again by two graduate school colleagues who are also my friends (the two things aren't synonyms, usually to the determent of all involved).
The blogs are located here:
Mixed Messages
and here
The Wandering Jew
I'm not revealing their names because they both seem to want a certain degree of anonymity and that's fine. I like to think that the latter got his title from a line in a Simon and Garfunkel song. I make no guesses about the former's.
I don't know this blog will become, but I hope I'll be able to make occasional posts that are like those that I made before -- that is to say things that have some depth and relevance to a somewhat medium-sized group of people.
I had a blog about the very beginnings of my research on the car radio. Maybe I'll continue that here (Mixed Messenger has a post where he talks about talking about his thesis though I don't know how serious he is). I still care about car radios, despite evidence that the manufacturers of the devices in the 1930s (like William Balderston of Philco) didn't.
I also care about other things, now. Like disciplinarity (though my advisor prefers to talk about post-disciplinarity, but he's older than I am). [Sidebar: Firefox doesn't recognize my chosen spelling of advisor/adviser.]
I started to read Annette Markham's Life Online: Researching real experience in virtual space tonight. It's an autoethnography about writing an autoethnography about online experience. It's a good book on the subject, I think. I don't know anything about autoethnography. The experiences I've had with it before Markham's book made the methodology seem like little else but the kind of material one might find on This American Life. It has its place, of course, but I wonder about the overall usefulness of it at times. But I research car radios so I don't know how much room I have to talk about scholastic relevancy.
Enough of this. I've got to get ready for Jaime time.