The focus this week has been on data collection, some of which I had hoped to add to my feeds, and to giving some thought to the choice of media I’d like to use to present my ethnography. My plan was to keep it succinct but the more information I gather the bigger it’s becoming. At the moment I feel like I’m walking along a corridor that goes on and on.
Like one of my colleagues, I have also had to spend some time doing a little Lifestream ‘troubleshooting’. I have no idea why some feeds are causing me problems but it’s clear the problems have to be remedied. My Tumblr account seemed to have ‘frozen’ on me and I decided it was easier to open a new one than to work on a resolution. I have tried and tested the new account out; it appears to be working fine. Delicious and Flickr are still causing problems. Clearing the error log is my way of handling it at the moment. I’ve bookmarked a couple of articles to my Diigo account and they are thankfully showing up in my Lifestream. As I wasn’t able to use YouTube for the visual artefact task I have opened a Vimeo account. I just may want to use this media for the ethnography task.
We’re now half way through the course and my Lifestream is starting to take shape, I think. It’s certainly looking busier. One of my colleagues commented that this is not a true reflection of how his time is spent online. I too get carried away checking out links colleagues have tweeted, or finding something interesting in one article that leads me to another, and another. And I am still wary about what I say and do, knowing that this can be viewed publicly. I actually ‘googled’ my name to check what does show up. An on-line diary does appeal to me but with restricted access.
