Category: Creative Practice & Strategy

Chris Joseph, Digital Writer in Residence at De Montfort University, has awarded me (and 4 others) the Thinking Blogger Award for being a blog that gets him thinking. Thankyou so much Chris, I feel quite ace.

The Thinking Blogger Award is a blog meme that was started by Ilker Yoldas. Details about his great idea are on his blog, The Thinking Blog. 

Here are 5 Blogs that Make me Think:

• Brad Beren’s Mediavorous: I have only just discovered Brad’s blog but he discusses a topic that is part of my research (and therefore passion): a cognitive approach to culture, community, marketing, new media.
• Bryan Alexander’s Infocult: I just love Bryan’s unending and wonderfully well informed and considered posts about information, culture, education and much more.
• Christopher Penn’s personal blog: Christopher takes such care with his posts, and provides lovely insights and solutions to life. He makes me think about doing life better.
• Corvus Elrod’s Man Bytes Blog: I don’t always agree with Corvus’ views but I just love the continual discussion about the building blocks of story and game. Yummy!
• Jak Boumans’s Buziaulane: Jak has been working with content and industry in all forms for a very long time. He is very generous and insightful with his posts.
• Steven D Levitt’s & Stephen J Dubner’s Freakonomics: After reading their great book, it is so good to have their flawless analysis, quirky views and refreshing nature on tap.
• Jason Mittell’s Just TV: I love the way Jason generously shares his top-notch research into television.

Oh, and if I got my numbers mixed up. I can’t count. 😉

 

“A blank page is God’s way of showing you how hard it is to be God.”
– Anonymous

I have recently discovered that I am not studying for a Doctorate of Philosophy, but a Doctorate in ABD: ‘All But Dissertation’. Apparently this is a form of study, an affliction in some ways, that has reached pandemic status in academia. Well, I’m on the road to recovery, and to getting back to my proper research. I’ve found a great resource to help: the iProcrastinate Podcast. Dr. Timothy A. Pychyl explains the research into the area of procrastination, with a particular emphasis on how it manifests in academia. For those not aware, procrastination is not about doing nothing, it is usually about doing lots of things, just not what you need or want to. I’m back on track now and am busy writing up lots of theories that will be published in…err…a few months to a year. Geez the academic publishing cycle is slow! But in the meantime, check out the podcast — it is great!