Some small presentiment of the future

I suppose I’ve finally gone ahead and established a presence on the Webs.

Or maybe not so much. This was not started as a personal blog, but rather as a learning tool for one of my classes this semester, Writing in Digital Environments. Our goal is to explore the tools, technology, and culture of the Internet, to analyze how people are using the medium to communicate… and to determine how that medium might be shaping our dialogues. As such, the bulk of the posts will consist of class assignments, responses to questions, research prompts, and the like.

Or at least that’s the game plan through May. After that, who can say? Maybe that will be my cue to join the blogging brethren, to unleash torrents of fell revelations and set the Earth listing off its axis. (I’m given to understand that these sorts of things happen all the time when you sit at a computer and type things.) Or, much more likely, I’ll convert the whole thing into a sketchblog heavily laden with allusions to Gene Wolfe.

In any event, welcome to the blog. Expect the first assignments to be up later today.

~ by pbonaduce on January 29, 2008.