So I’ve finally set up a new blog to replace that which was lost when EduSpaces pulled the plug on the old Elgg community where I hung out. I should have moved on anyway given my focus is now open accessibility, whereas at that time I was working in education (Exeter College MIS). Unfortunately my blog export turns out to be corrupt so it will be some time before I can resurrect some of those old posts.
Since then I’ve been pretty active on Twitter as @SteveALee and whilst being socially powerful, doing so really depletes the blogging muse. Still at times there is more I want to say than can be pared down to fit the lean and mean 140.
I also work for UK JISC funded FE/HE educational advisory service OSS Watch and I occasionally blog there as well.
So now I’m all set to go. I had intended this to be a Drupal blog, partly to gain familiarity with the excellent CMS with a view to using it for a refresh of fullmeasure.co.uk, and partly as the Drupal Accessibility community are doing great things, many of which have landed in Drupal 7. However, my otherwise excellent and open source friendly hoster, UKFSN are still using a version of PHP that is too old for Drupal 7. So for now I knocked up a quick WordPress install. It’s such an easy out-of-the-box blog setup and it’s fresh in my mind as I’ve just used it for a couple of websites for a client.
Welcome! I sympathize with the 140 problem. I still haven’t pushed myself to throw those slightly bigger thoughts onto my blog. I keep thinking a blog post has to have a certain size. Maybe knowing that you are giving this a try will be a push for me, too? I hope so! Cheers!
Thanks Karen. I don’t think size matters so much (ehm), but a blog post does feel somehow more permanent than a tweet. Tweets seem very much of the moment. Being constrained to 140 leads to one kind of creativeness, where-as a blog post feels like a nice wide open space.
Just good to have you back in the Sphere (as you say)
We have missed you
Great to see you so active with so many things going on …..
Thanks Sal. As you say, many thinks going on; exciting times.
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