tech-ed collisions

Blogging from the dark side

So here's my first real post from tech-ed collision's new home.  The company I work for has merged with another and I have a new role.  At the moment it doesn't seem appropriate for me to be blogging using my old work blog while my role is changing but there are still so many things happening in the world of technology and education that I'd like to comment on.

A long time ago I had some great correspondence from a colleague in NSW (whose views I regard very highly) who chooses to blog about his profession but on a personal blog - Thanks Tim, I am looking forward to the same sense of liberation. 

I was able to copy all my old posts over to Posterous but not the comments and categories.  Its a great pity the comments didn't come across as they are the most valued parts of my blog.  Thanks to everyone who commented on my posts, I have learned a great deal and will most certainly be trying to get an export of them somehow. Its a bit weird starting from scratch again and I hope anyone who has found any of my thoughts interesting can find me here - to think that some of the people whose views and work I have the utmost respect for have time to have a read of my ramblings means a lot to me.

As for the categories, while they didn't come across it has been really interesting to go through all my old posts and tag them.  Most likely they will have different tags now and that's ok because hopefully I am a better tagger.  What has been great though is to look at my progress as a blogger and lifelong learner.  I would encourage anyone to take a walk back through time and have a look at all their old blog posts or other contributions to the Web and sharing of our knowledge, ideas, thoughts etc.  Its really quite illuminating.

Cheers,

Jerry

Filed under  //   blogging  
Posted July 7, 2010

on blogging (part 2)

Thanks to Tim for this. I like Tim's approach to blogging - his blog is work related but not on a work blog which provides a nice level of independence and freedom to discuss, well anything really. Also, separating the time to blog from work allows inspiration to write about something whenever that takes place, not just during 'traditional' work hours (when and where we work could be the topic of many other posts I guess). Speaking of timestamping, this blog seems to be timestamped by default. It was interesting to go back and have a look at what times of day I blog and, while unintentional (I don't reserve a time to do this) there are some very definite patterns there. I do think though that the ideas for most posts happened outside these times. Cheers, Jerry.

Filed under  //   Web 2.0   blogging  
Posted July 10, 2007

on blogging

Technology plays a large part in the work I do and while I have made a commitment to try and blog about technology and its application relation to our work it is interesting to see just how difficult this can be at times. There are some quite natural constraints for work blogging which in essence, reduces the number of things that I might like to blog about considerably. Then there are time constraints - I am putting this post together while eating lunch. Sometimes it seems that I have been so occupied in day to day operational tasks that there is just nothing new to comment on. During the first part of my lunch, I came across this interesting article on twopointouch. It provides some really interesting perspectives on blogging. There are some great reasons why people do blog, a pile of barriers/reasons why they don't, some discussion on microblogging (I've joined the Twitter crowd and can see the attraction but haven't 'drank the cool-aid' yet). More interesting to me is the notion of passive blogging - I think I have a lot to say but just don't have the time etc to devote to blogging it. I am definitely going to follow this up. Cheers.

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Posted June 5, 2007