While jumping from one place to another, trying to polish the final shape of my ethnography, I kept thinking of the lifestream and whether in a way it could be regarded as an ethnographic artefact itself. Could it be perceived as a community, at least in the meaning of texts, documenting my connectivity, connectivity between me and other nodes on the Web or even auto-connectivity between various online facets of myself (following the view of identity as prismatic) as represented on a number of sites feeding into the stream, tumblr for quotes, diigo for bookmarks, this blog for musings, youtube and flickr for things watched and seen respectively, Twitter for whispers or shouts … or is it stretching the idea too much?

I liked what M. Wesch said about subjects vs subjectivity, declarative transmitted knowledge vs  a way of seeing, feeling and understanding, characteristic for a given group or discipline. That could be perhaps extended when doing ethnographic research, looking at the subjectivity of the community, rather than its subjects, which would require overt, not only covert observation of the community. What would be the subjectivity within this field or rather a stream? Maybe the way of understanding the dance between the technology and the human, the student on this course (me) in an attempt to embrace the uncanny and enter the posthuman productive borderland. I would not attempt that without the stream, would I …

This week has been busy with putting together the data gathered for my ethnography on science bloggers. I spent a number of hours trying to organise the information to make it easier to understand but the zoom-in/zoom out tool of Prezi thoroughly confused me and I kept losing pieces I had placed earlier. Or maybe it was more to do with the fact that they were either too small to be read and I had placed another image on top of them.  Whichever it was, I had the job of replacing the work but felt restrained by time and Internet access. The deadline for ethnography submission coincided with a trip to Malaysia and although the hotel brochure stated it offered wi-fi, past experience has found this not always to be the case.  Thankfully there was indeed Internet access, albeit only in the foyer, which allowed me to post my submission on time and also to comment on the ethnographies of a few of my colleagues.

My Lifestream feeds are still not operating smoothly.  Although I can bookmark using my new Delicious account it’s just not feeding into my Lifestream.  I also tried making a link to my Prezi account but was unsuccessful.  Looks like Flickr is working fine though.   I thought that by this stage I would be happier with the shape Lifestream is taking but I’m not and I assumed that I would be using more applications than I currently am.  Time is marching on and I

feel I need to fix things and quickly if I am to cut muster.